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Best Mythology Poems

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Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'

When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight...

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Categories: mythology, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Yet My Mind Holds Invincible Summer Hues
Yet My Mind Holds Invincible Summer Hues

Bitter cold, ice ravages red-cliffs in my veins
Yet my mind holds invincible summer hues
O' Darkness thy black-hand my spirit...

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Categories: mythology, art, creation, dark, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part Two
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, 
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)

Achilles, The Journey To Troy

Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...

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Categories: mythology, art, death, hero, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: mythology, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Voice of God
Why are you so sad ?, Have you lost anything ??
If lost, then what ??? I think it is nothing.....
You stepped earth with your empty...

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Categories: god, mythology,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Achilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated Part Three, the Conclusion
Achilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated
Part Three, (the Conclusion)

Dawn, bright rays fell upon Achilles and his band
exiting ship, Greek sandals felt soft...

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Categories: mythology, art, character, dedication, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chimera
Bellerophon was sent for by king Lobates of Lycia
And given the dangerous task of slaying the Chimera
A fierce creature like a lion with a goats...

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Categories: animal, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gods At the Comedy Club
The house was full
Of Gods and deities
The curtain call was soon
The water vasos were poured
And became the finest of wines
The bread multiplied
The baker you see
Was...

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Categories: mythology, art, butterfly, gothic, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Betrayed Expectations
I flew to Olympus, to find its heart,	
armour intact against Hades’ dark wrath.	
At birth the power of light made its start	  
as Homer's ghost...

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Categories: mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Goddess of Blessed Redemption
The Goddess Of Blessed Redemption

She gave me a foundation of love's pleasures
complete with wondrous bountiful measures
she a gentle goddess of golden hues,
swept this heart away,...

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Categories: mythology, art, beautiful, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Empyrean Perfumes

"We can't ever fathom, 
     when the ceasing flicker of hope 
         ...

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Categories: mythology, deep, emotions, fantasy, flower,
Form: Free verse
Marine Majesty

A winged mermaid blossoms, 
awash with marine snow ~
Poseidon's ocean-pearl,
breathing jasmine sirens
as iced eyelashes curl.

A winged mermaid blossoms,
when fish-angels ache for
arctic apricity,
and glacial nymphs carve...

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Categories: mythology, deep, fantasy, imagery, meaningful,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Endymion,Lover of the Moon
On summer hills  I watched you

I know you watched me too

Every night you waited for me

Every night I came to you

From shallow oceans I...

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Categories: love, muse, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer's Zephyr
Zephyrus, the god of the wind from the west
 Gently blows where the lily grows
 He is springtime's welcome guest

 In early summer he whispers...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mythology, nature, wind,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )


Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
...

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Categories: mythology, art, corruption, creation, imagination,
Form: Classicism

Book: Shattered Sighs