Livia's Journals
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Stylus and Scroll
General
| poised white knuckled on the edge of a world gone flat
numbed by the cold blast of time rushing past
blanketed with fear and frustration holding ont... |
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Songs of the Poets
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If I didn’t love you more than my eyes,
most delightful Calvus, I’d dislike you
for this gift, with a true Vatinian dislike:
Now what d... |
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The Long and Short Story
General
| "He stared through the open window and began to weep."
"He actually wept? Incredible!"
The women sat on his verandah, and spoke not again. The h... |
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His Gifts of Sonnets
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An Introduction
My literate host, you must share a ghost,
A specter’s thoughts, dealings, these tiny peelings
Tr... |
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Political Commentary
General
| Don Black
A response to ‘wear red white and blue on Sept 11th'
For the found and lost
For the unburied dead
For dead knights in crushed armo... |
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Mother Rome
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| He was a samall man who had come to America from Cuba. His name was Mr. Otero, and he was the most excitable adult I had personally ever known.
He ... |
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Social
| Olympus
We climbed the depths of Olympus
and gods old, new, ancient and young
knew and cared nothing of our sacrifice
only that we came empty ... |
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Livia is Livia?
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| I am a woman who is eclectic in her interests: doll collecting,an ice hockey and baseball fan, and above all is in love with rome!
I am convinced t... |
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MOTHER ROME
Upon a panorama I awaken.
While strolling the night's panoply
I thus find before me
This Rome, of dust, long settled.
Alone I kneel, shaken.
The Forum beneath me...stable, sure
Unfallen.
The aroma of Tiber and marble
The promise of Augustan footprints
Silence my fears.
I kneel before Thee, Mother Rome.
Returned I am to your breast.
Give me again your heartbeat.
Wrench time back from yesterday!
Give me one whisper of your splendor.
Make me one with Thy blood..
I, too, am Rome, you are my breath.
The stage so empty, so decorated.
My feet do not move.
I am as one transfixed.
Your Vestal fires burn in me,
The Lares you offer are my gods.
Great Roma! Dominia Dulcis!
I miss Thee as an orphaned child
Longs for the arms of her mother.
Enfold your daughter, Ancient Matrona!
Give to me once more your splendored peace.
copyright Livia Servilius 2007





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All Posts (917) Messages posted by Livia
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Livia's 19 Groups
Aedes Divi Iulii: Julius Caesar and His Times
Position: Member
Level 2
For discussion of the life of Gaius Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, and Rome in his time.
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Arachne's Web
Position: Cyber Spinner
Level 4
A group focused on serving the AW community by providing help and discussion on topics such as HTML, CSS, web design, homesite decorating, netiquette and issues important to web artists.
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Children of the Millennia
Position: Child of the Millennia
Level 5
A group dedicated to the works of Anne Rice and discussion of the powerful revenants of her metaphysical adventures. From Maharet, the most ancient of the vampires, to the all, encompassing Lestat who so often fractures the equilibrium of the immortal realms.
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Coinage Through the Ages
Position: Collector
Level 3
The metals exchanged for goods and services that
have been used from ancient times to the modern
day
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Domus Depot
Position: Management
Level 6
A totally Roman resource for virtual home-decorating in the Empire.
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First Emperor Augustus
Position: Scriba
Level 5
A Life in the Service of Rome
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Licentia Poetica
Position: Chief Scribbler
Level 6
"Words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
Lord Byron
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Mater Dea
Position: Hera and Demeter, Greek goddesses
Level 3
Mothers elicit such emotion in all of us. Join us for fun discussion about historical moms, goddesses of motherhood, jokes, stories and our own woes and joys as moms (and sons, daughters and husbands). Stop in for a cookie and glass of milk-- it'll be good for you!
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ResPublica Romana
Position: Members of The Belle Époque
Level 4
Fact and fiction about things real and things imagined…Where the story you've always wanted to write can come to life in an interactive setting.
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The Curia
Position: Scriba Emeritus
Level 5
 
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Complete List of Livia's 19 Groups
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