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Best Euripides Poems

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Premium Member Greek Tragedy
Waiting in line, 
Before the ATM of closed banks for 60 Euros to withdraw under the scourging sun  
Old and invalid people are submitted...

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Categories: euripides, courage, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - Xxi
Unquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI

The pupil, the ***** and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: euripides, children, humor, parents, student,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Splice of Life
“The Splice of Life”



When colour 
was to be 
washed out
of the world 

the evil ones 
didn’t care

the Actor led 
with his 
Dementors 
either side of...

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Categories: euripides, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form: Free verse
Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch

If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity 
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch

To write an epigram, cram.
If...

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Categories: euripides, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Greek Revolution 25 March 1821
Sleep our glorious ancestors, sleep!
Do not be disturbed.
We,
your descendants would never betray
The blood you have shed to liberate
Our land.
The Land of:
Homer and Hesiod
Aeschylus and Euripides
Socrates...

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Categories: euripides, freedom, remembrance day, slavery,
Form: Free verse



The Hydra
Navigating the immense void of night
The right ascension to a winter’s sky;
Coincides with the height from which I stood 
Stars, interlinking crescendo’s so freely,
Imitate the...

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Categories: euripides, philosophy, science fiction, stars,
Form: Classicism
Womanhood
Fragile but tough 
Creature,a woman,an 
Embodiment of glory and 
Honor with heart deeper 
Than deepest sea;full 
Of mysteries.
 Mother of all humans.
Mystery herself,emanates 
power and...

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Categories: euripides, abuse
Form: Blank verse
Woman-Hood
A fragile but tough 
Creature,a woman,an 
Embodiment of glory and 
Honour wit heart deeper 
Than the deepest sea;ful 
Of mysteries.
The mother of all humans
A mystery...

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Categories: euripides, celebration
Form: Free verse
This Summer, Marry I Must
Papa said my beauty would make life better
For marry I must this summer
Or we shall continue to suffer.
Bride Price shall make my family richer.
But I...

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Categories: euripides, marriage, me, sweet, love,
Form: Rhyme
Hippolytus and Phaedra In Declining Orbits
Hippolytus and Phaedra In Declining Orbits

Hippolytus and Phaedra, a Euripides sad story
Phaedra wants sex with Hippolytus, (her step-son)
She tries every trick in the book for...

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Categories: euripides, celebrity, family, history, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Poet Ponders What Fate Delivers
Quotes:  -- "  deus ex machina "

""Aristotle praised Euripides, however, for generally ending his plays with bad fortune, which he viewed as correct...

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Categories: euripides, art, deep, humanity, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Jump Through a Rope
Jump Through A Rope

Ropes may be used to jump through;
After you have done more than a few,
Faster and faster;
A major disaster;
Will become tired like most...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: euripides, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The Moment Within the Mood
The aesthetic of the autocratic effigy of directing the positivity of proclivity in the nature,  the stir of it , that grit in your...

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Categories: euripides, courage, emotions, humanity, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Moonflower Aglow
To Flower
by Michael R. Burch
 
When Pentheus ["grief'] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads,...

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Categories: euripides, bereavement, betrayal, birth, death,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs