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Sophocles Poems - Poems about Sophocles

A Distant Shore

...A Distant Shore



Beached upon a distant shore I wondered about my life 

Beseeched by solitude all I could pour out was sadness & strife 

I reached for something in the distance that looke...
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Categories: sophocles, life,
Form: Rhyme

A Distant Shore

...A Distant Shore

Beached upon a distant shore I wondered about my life 
Beseeched by solitude all I could pour out was sadness & strife 
I reached for something in the distance that looked like i...
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Categories: sophocles, life,
Form: Rhyme



Philosophical Rhythmic Duality

...Philosophical Rhymthmic Duality

Imminent calamity collides with structured debate 
Virulent profanity confides with punctured ingrates 
An insolent generation of insanity resides with a debunked...
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Categories: sophocles, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Truths

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                        The truth is not always beautiful 
            or beautiful words from sugared lips, the truth.
The Trojan Horse delivered to the door, comes in disguise.
Sturdy in desi...
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Categories: sophocles, literature, myth, relationship,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberIt's Greek To Me

...Aeschylus: "Agamemnon"

A man in exile
Feeds himself on barren hope
Yields to fate in time

Aeschylus: "Prometheus Unbound"

Life's hard lesson
Wrong is shameful in the old
Time instructs u...
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Categories: sophocles, philosophy,
Form: Senryu



Premium MemberLife

..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
Sophocles, Greek Poet

I have forever loved you my dearest.
I'd nothing to give, 'cept love, sincerest.
T...
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Categories: sophocles, life, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberLove

..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
Quote by Sophocles, Greek Poet 


I had fallen in perfect love with you.
Found my perfect future soul-mate s...
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Categories: sophocles, love,
Form: Sonnet

Love

...“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
           -Sophocles, Greek Poet

Out of the shackles of turbulent night,
Through the dark meadow to redemption light,
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Categories: sophocles, inspirational, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberLOVE OF GOD TO BE SPREAD

..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
                                                                      Sophocles, Greek Poet
 
Radiating joyous tha...
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Categories: sophocles, christian, faith, forgiveness, god,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberLove

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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.
Sophocles, Greek Poet 

How can our world be so abundant and blessed
with nature's vast displays of harmony,
so filled ...
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Categories: sophocles, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberLove

...‘One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.’
- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
	
While we’re in the vertiginous first throws 	
of being in love, Cupid...
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Categories: sophocles, love, pain,
Form: Sonnet

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..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
Sophocles, Greek Poet 

  When love meets your silhouette at twilight,
heart unfurls chamomile flowe...
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Categories: sophocles, devotion,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberLIFE

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  " One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
                     Sophocles , Greek Poet.

       Life to build, life to lead, please be sincere.
       Life to ...
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Categories: sophocles, appreciation, life,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberLove

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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
Sophocles, Greek Poet

If love was a metaphor for flowers,
our souls would rejoice in April showers.
Foundatio...
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Categories: sophocles, love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberLife

..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
                                        Sophocles Greek poet  

Placed Second in: 
Sonnet Poetry Contest (Untraditional)
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Categories: sophocles, appreciation, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Sonnet

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