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Biographical Fantasy Poems

Displaying 17 poems from the Biographical Fantasy genre.

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Goethe — Linda Arnott	Goethe A portrait of Beauty: The air around her is intoxicating. She drowns your soul in a green "veil of sweet darkness." Her eyes are seductive...	6 views Rate it
Quintus Horatius Flaccus — Linda Arnott	Quintus Horatius Flaccus The Literary Prisoner of Rome will find an audience once more. Hey you, set the book on the table and turn off the light....	6 views Rate it
Han Shan — Linda Arnott	Han Shan Cold Mountain, 10,000 feet above the world. Climb to the top just once and touch the dome of the sky. It is enough for one lifetime. Rest...	5 views Rate it
Tamura Ryuichi — Linda Arnott	Tamura Ryuichi 10 "the vertical nightmare of medieval Gothic" descended from the sky at 8:15 on August 6, 1945. Time was distorted by a shadow of...	4 views Rate it
Su Shih — Linda Arnott	Su Shih The Jade River wraps around the world. Never once straight. The cosmic crazy eight. Waters flow to a surreal horizon and a thousand...	4 views Rate it
Li Po — Linda Arnott	Li Po Drink from the empty cup, filled with abominations and self-enlightenment. Journey upstream thru the Three Gorges. Legend says the world ends...	4 views Rate it
Wang Wei — Linda Arnott	Wang Wei The Jade Coach approaches on a lonely moonbeam of light. Red dust fills the doorway. Adorn a red silk jacket. Walk to the Jade Coach on...	3 views Rate it
Basho — Linda Arnott	Cherry blossom spring. Pink rain fills the empty sky. Spring is almost dead. A looking-glass dream, beyond this strange world of stone. Blue roses...	3 views Rate it
Alexander Pope — Linda Arnott	Alexander Pope In the Royal Garden-- Merlin's Cave-- "A Gothic Library!" A Greek and Roman sanctuary. From the darkness of years, and the chaos of...	2 views Rate it
Tu Fu — Linda Arnott	Tu Fu The oldest soul to ever live in the land of make-believe. Drinking Dragon's Eye tea from the pool of illusion. One eye is the golden Sun, ...	2 views Rate it
Li Ho — Linda Arnott	Li Ho Beyond the River of Silver, past the bright full Moon-- a cloud, white as a ghost, blows the Celestial Wind. Out of the "White Dawn," a...	2 views Rate it
Tao Yuan-Ming — Linda Arnott	Tao Yuan-Ming The River of Stars shine upon the earth, spinning webs of light, into a story of silk: On the River of Eternity a stranger drifts...	2 views Rate it
Hsieh Ling-Yun — Linda Arnott	Hsieh Ling-Yun "Brushing my clothes" I embrace the wind, past haunted Kunlun Mountains. I hear the voices of the Immortals. Echoes of the stones...	2 views Rate it
Wang Feng-Yuan — Linda Arnott	Wang Feng-Yuan "Call the East Wind back" from the Turning Wheel of Time, and the echo of a long journey. Plant a rainbow of flowers and trees: ...	1 view Rate it
Po Chu-I — Linda Arnott	Po Chu-I A long time ago, "A thousand ancient forevers gone." Exiled to Lu Mountain, beyond the Empty Gate, where the Void begins, edge of the...	1 view Rate it
Chu Yuan — Linda Arnott	Chu Yuan On the fifth day of the fifth Moon, a suicidal death at the Milo River. In present day China--a Dragon Boat Festival and offerings of rice,...	1 view Rate it
Liu Tsung-Yuan — Linda Arnott	Liu Tsung-Yuan "an old man" banished to the Land of Lonely Dreams beyond the River of Stars and looking-glass moonbeams. ten thousand skies ...	0 views Rate it