Asinus Aureus

A lover who is not a slut
But blessed quite a mighty ass:
The donkey with the giant butt.

All along the lane she will strut,
But sill she is the soul of class,
A lover who is not a slut.

O! Such a figure does she cut,
With mighty depth to her crevasse,
The donkey with the giant butt.

And while she is eager to rut
She's hardly crude and not so crass.
A lover who is not a slut.

Far out in space her rear does jut,
And so much flesh that none can pass,
The donkey with the giant butt.

She's not one who belongs in smut,
She's just a sweetheart with rear mass:
A lover who is not a slut,
The donkey with the giant butt.

Kallipygotera- Grýphon Callipyge

All other hens do idolize

The uniquest of all their kind,

The hen with buns of massive size.

Such lust and longing do arise,

And well her legend is enshrined,

All over hens do idolize.

Her bottom, men mythologize,

To her they surrender their mind,

The hen with buns of massive size.

She does not show herself a prize,

But is the best any could find,

All other hens do idolize.

She need not wear a coy disguise,

Her crudity has been refined,

The hen with buns of massive size.

With sexy mirth inside her eyes,

Her loving choice is species-blind.

All other hens do idolize

The hen with buns of massive size.

Author's Note

The villanelle is another French form (which should not be surprising considering my username) with an excellent pedigree, being used (in English) by the likes of Shelly and Robinson. It has a unique structure, five three-line stanzas with a concluding quatrain, and two rhymes. But, lines one and three of the first stanza are repeated, alternately, in the other stanzas and also form the concluding couplet. So writing one takes a little forethought.

I loved this form a lot so I wrote two of them. About the names: Poetry, especially poetry from the time period I like writing, as a lot of pretension and affectation of more ancient times, particularly Roman and Greek. So I wanted to mirror that to sort of "pump up" the import of the poems. The titles actually mean: "The Golden Ass" and "She who has an excellent butt- Gyphon with the beautiful butt."