ChrisSaitta
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Last Heartbeat of Delphi
Low are the crickets of Delphi
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With their chirping rays of sunset,
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Like Phaethon to photon destr
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May 11, 2025
My Mother, the Sea
From my new book, Poems of Ancient Rome and Greece, available in paperback on Amazon and Barnes & No
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Jan 21, 2025
To the Sky (from New Book)
All, thanks for the many years of continuous support from Hello Poetry, comments (both praise and co
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Jan 9, 2025
Death is the Stillness of Pewter Leaves
Death is my own covetous possession,
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A hand-me-down with the worn edges
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Of a closed, burnished k
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Oct 26, 2024
Things Lost and Looked Away
When a woman averts her eyes,
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I feel the snow has secrets to hide,
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Or from the small crook of he
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Oct 19, 2024
To Our Love That Never Was
We live in the sunshine of our broken loves,
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Where window curtains flow like pouring water from th
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Jul 14, 2024
The End of All Lore
The towering candles of the monk’s studious hours
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Now guttered to an old head on the pillowing smo
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Jul 13, 2024
Undercurrent
Her memory is like the beauty of the silted Nile,
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Of sacred blue lilies and heron
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And skimming e
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Jun 8, 2024
Venezia, Song of Forgetting
Sing my song of forgetting,
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Of lips never wrong, never upsetting,
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Sing the wine-infused air alon
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May 31, 2024
Seduction by Many Roads
Love is a thousand women who fail to amount to one,
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Peasant seductress with bared shoulders of red
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Apr 23, 2023
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