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Best Hammurabi Poems

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Premium Member Alexandria
Long before Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians and Greeks, 
Before Hammurabi, Sargon and Ramses ruled 
The world below their feet;
Before biblical scenes and mythological dreams 
Of magical...

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Categories: hammurabi, history, world, sea, city,
Form: Rhyme



Morality
If that pagan philosopher, 
who lived before Christ,
said that Humans are moral beings,
because they have freedom to choose,

instead of saying,
that the man is a political...

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Categories: hammurabi, spiritual,
Form: Verse
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Cruel and Unusual Punishment 8th Amendment

Of particular news was a protrusion
Upsetting people with a serious infusion
About proportion of a pharmaceutical
Enough to raise and curl your...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hammurabi, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
R.J.K.(Rightful Justified King)
R J K means more than my name
So we won't be playing Guess Who, that silly game
It is abbreviated for Rightful Justified King
Not King of...

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Categories: hammurabi, devotionme, life, me,
Form: I do not know?
When
for KNOCK US DOWN WITH YOUR LINES Contest

How many generations have to suffer
    the stings of those who would be bigger than
...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hammurabi, death, discrimination, history, holocaust,
Form: Free verse



Life of a "pharoah"
The 7 letters of my title equal those of my first name
Being in this position is better than any fame
I am known to be the...

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Categories: hammurabi, imaginationme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Insurgents Hard Heels
Under Insurgents Hard Heels

Have you been under insurgents hard heels before?
While being in pain and suffering forevermore
Before you knew it, family member was found dead
And...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hammurabi, allegory, anxiety, sad,
Form: Couplet
Bedtime Story
The depths of my depravity sink
My cruel and careless mind is aligned
With eyes affixed on all I've solely lost:
I dance with my scapegoating ghosts

Yearning to...

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Categories: hammurabi, addiction, allegory, anxiety, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
To the East of Eden
[This is an excerpt from a much longer poem]

    is there a garden to the east of eden 
   ...

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Categories: hammurabi, christian, religion,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs