Achilles Poems - Poems about Achilles

...Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage h......Read the rest...

...Homer translations Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michae......Read the rest...

... My Sock My Sock My Kingdom For A Sock Upon our bed of dreams now laid, To rest in peace amidst the shades, Your colour rich and vibrant green, I wish your passing was foreseen. I......Read the rest...

...“She is mine” The words of the Duke spoke heavy over his dine The shocked face of the girl was evident The love in their hearts was non-resident Did she have a choice? How could she speak over ......Read the rest...

...The barren ground bleached by the sacred sun scantily clothed children and dogs run Trees scarred by scavenged limbs Burned in pyres as sunlight dims Low water levels recorded on painted rocks ......Read the rest...

... One of the first things we humans did when we looked around the world and realized everything was not the same… was to begin labeling those things around us…giving everything a name. We are hu......Read the rest...

...I was born in the odds, I lived through it, dotted the lines on my path I was born among hyenas, these scrambling to stiffen the last breath, Amidst hurts and hate first from home, A lot cas......Read the rest...

...Does my head in the guillotine promptly paint me guilty? My last meal, a full plate of your golden excuses But any attention means so much to me We’re going in circles, But feel free to say yo......Read the rest...

...Black lives matter. Me too. Not my president. Give peace a chance. Luck runs out. I like immigrants. Power must be challenged by power. Equal and opposite reactions. God is the answer. Love ......Read the rest...

... I believe it is wrong to compromise, but like Thomas both faith and doubt I reveal. Some believe prestige is more often just disguise, The want of fame may be their Achilles' heel. I know ......Read the rest...

...To Those This Brave, True Warrior Is Sworn To One Day Defeat When violet pours its sadden verses onto burning sands and heavens above spit green poison upon savage lands up from murky dark evil ......Read the rest...

...My heart is a plume renditioning over a lyre, my soul. You are but the fume of frozen fire, on parole. I am a scintillating bud of ray in the moon, You are a void sphere on spree to slay and prun......Read the rest...

...I’d rather cry, but of course My voice had suddenly gone You’ve changed today your course Now I’m here alone Playing solitaires and stuff Winning most of the games Hearing your silence is tough......Read the rest...

...Now coming to three score years and ten looking back on years now gone past decisions made that brought destiny then not knowing what would last In leaving school cut off from friends for I sa......Read the rest...

...Excerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago... at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater), and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft amidst plethora of junk emails while practice read......Read the rest...