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Achates Poems - Poems about Achates

To Sister, This Heartfelt Sonnet of Love

...Dear sister...You, Charles, and Mom: all three,
     a part of my life forever; I love 
you all! But this sonnet is writ for thee
     (and for thee only): for you are, above

all, my sibling Ac...

Categories: achates, appreciation, love, poverty, sister,
Form: Sonnet

House of Dengbej

...In The House Of Dengbej
 

Three sisters sit
Each in crimson velvet
And veiled hair.
Relate tales
Of interracial love.
Of Armenian Boys and Kurdish Gals.
This is a town of
Cobbled streets a...

Categories: achates, allegory, appreciation, beautiful, city,
Form: Rhyme

Journey of the Dead

...I saw him lying there
In rigor mortis- lifeless, stiff and motionless:

His prayers weren't lost,
His visions the evil one couldn't shatter
Into pieces.

Soon his casket was whisked away
Amid...

Categories: achates, africa, bereavement, culture, death,
Form: Free verse

Verse

...Be not harried by apostasy spates
Surcease ye flux of basilic imprecations
Adhibit ye ,supernal paracletes  
The pith of divinity

An Achates,
Vae victis
In this temporal realm

Chatoyant fa...

Categories: achates, song-
Form: ABC

Mind's Eye

...You are what I delineate as integrity,
 The honesty that beckons,
You, my cohort, carry the knife's handle,
 Rather than stabbing me in the back, 
It stabs you and you become the trusted bearer o...

Categories: achates, sad, me, me, integrity,
Form: ABC