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Agamemnon Poems - Poems about Agamemnon

Premium MemberEvery Remaining Last God

...Covered by cloud the out-of-sight tops of soaring towers,
Buckling under their own weight, beginning to topple from 
Those airy heights;
The gaping breach - the once impregnable outer wall!
The i...
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Categories: agamemnon, mythology,
Form: Free 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 us all

Sop...
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Categories: agamemnon, philosophy,
Form: Senryu



Heel

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"Heel"

Another language speaks its truth
one’s truth is another’s war
Agamemnon and his achilles

to heel a virtue
to heal a cause
such an odyssey

styx and stones
C...
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Categories: agamemnon, muse,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberEchoes of Ancient Tales

...Written: June 22, 2023


In the realm of ancient lore, I yearn to reside,
To bear a deep dive into tales untied.
Achilles, a warrior with a heart of fire,
Hector, noble and valiant,...
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Categories: agamemnon, appreciation, history, introspection, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe River of Life

...I wish I could immerse myself 
in the pages of history, time, 
and deep reflection...letting go 
of everything I think I know 
and give myself another chance 
to clarify my perceptions and belie...
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Categories: agamemnon, bible, books, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



When the Engines Feast Ii

...Kings of lizards 
The great multi-horned beast
A rise in the east, 
The prodigal son 
Coming in the Fire 
Of mythic Agamemnon! 

As the beast lay waste to Dominion…
Divinities promise oblivio...
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Categories: agamemnon, allegory, allusion, america, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAres

...An atrocity loose
Across state of Ukraine 
Annexation Russian
Arms raised in defiance
Against staggering odds
An iron curtain drops
Agamemnon awaits...
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Categories: agamemnon, war,
Form: Pleiades

Anchors Aweigh

...Anchors Aweigh...

destination unknown
for this Earthling
stardate: February 26th, 2022

At sea since time immemorial
I relish being alone
upon oceanic expanse
yours truly doth bemoan
me ga...
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Categories: agamemnon, 6th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGreek Revolution 25 March 1821

...Sleep our glorious ancestors, sleep!
Do not be disturbed.
We,
your descendants would never betray
The blood you have shed to liberate
Our land.
The Land of:
Homer and Hesiod
Aeschylus and Eur...
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Categories: agamemnon, freedom, remembrance day, slavery,
Form: Free verse

Within My Eyes

...Do not wall yourself
dead within my eyes
as Anarkali was, alive
your silent tomb
as if Orpheus
I glance to seek you
but cruel Hades has
torn you back
to his hateful...
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Categories: agamemnon, love, myth,
Form: Free verse

Ides of Lovers

...Do not wall yourself
dead within my eyes
as Anarkali was, alive
your silent tomb
as if Orpheus
I glance to seek you
but cruel Hades has
torn you back
to his hate...
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Categories: agamemnon, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Honey Is Bitterly Sweet In Fictitious Love

...(Greek Hero Agamemnon Part)

Love has gone for victory

Fate 
made the love blind for victory
and slain the innocent heir

oh the game of goddess

the remained love
weaved the hive for ano...
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Categories: agamemnon, grief, hate, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the Minds Fixed Eye

...VIII

In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,              
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";         
And guileful Cassandra, she laid her two murdered ...
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Categories: agamemnon, myth,
Form: Rhyme

Anchors Aweigh Destination Unknown

...Anchors Aweigh...Destination Unknown

Weather beaten cap'n,
     and watertight bewitched craft
time tested since maiden voyage
     (circumnavigating the globe
back in the day
of my youth),
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Categories: agamemnon, absence, adventure, allegory, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Meteorologists Prediction

...Close on the leatherneck well booted, high healed stormy, clip clop,
sans well fashioned faux shod Harvey didst stomp with heavy drop
ping like a furious ogre, and before classes even started 
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Categories: agamemnon, grief, hero, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse

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