Famous Ziggurat Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Ziggurat poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous ziggurat poems. These examples illustrate what a famous ziggurat poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...ardly imagine a future.
I wanted the density of history,
which I confused with the smell of the book:
Babylon's ziggurat tropical with ferns,
engraved watercourses rippling;
the Colossus of Rhodes balanced
over the harbormouth on his immense ankles.
Athena filled one end of the Parthenon,
in an "artist's reconstruction",
like an adult in a dollhouse.
At Halicarnassus, Mausolus remembered himself
immensely, though in the book
there wasn't even a sketc...Read more of this...
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Doty, Mark
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