Achilles Heel Poems - Poems about Achilles Heel

this boy - he is mythology he is the pomegranate sitting in persephone's palm - (looks can be deceiving) this boy - he is a mirror can show medusa what heaven really is - how pain really feels but medusa never looks this boy in the sun - he is the smoking gun in the death of icarus;...

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Superman’s Other Achilles’ Heel By Elton Camp Truth, justice and the American way Superman pursued every single day Bullets bounced right off his chest Everything that he did was the best A locomotive was weaker than he Steel he bent with hands, you see Able to leap tall buildings at a bound He was the strongest fellow around Only time he got into a tight Was...

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We are gifted life for later to be taken so why emotion that used to manipulate, strength built on the fear of it. © Harry J Horsman 2014...

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In my armor instead he wore Now lays dead, my friend of honor Petroclus, Oh! The grief I bear Cannot be wiped away like tears. Long will I suffer his demise; Lost forever, our mortal ties. *************************** My lifelong friend lies before me His emaciated body Dressed in his “Best Mans” tuxedo He wore so many years ago as my best man in our wedding bearing...

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To lament the lion hearted to cowering in trembled skin befits the bottom dwelling things the silt under wool of society's rug While bravery is steel in stance and oils the jaws of recovery the bite of poison from burnt mouths will hit the heel every time....

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