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Amphora Poems - Poems about Amphora

Premium Member In the darkness of my room, I tell myself to swallow sadness like a venom
...In the darkness of my room, I tell myself to swallow sadness like a venom, but my body is a vessel, an amphora for all of it, the rage, the grief, the longing, they sit in my throat, unmoving, and......

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Categories: amphora, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought
...In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought, Youth sheds at dawn like dew entwined on strawberries, Weaving a veil of dreams and hopes, the storm is but a hushed song, The grea......

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Categories: amphora, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Catarrh and Catharsis
...... stalactites hung like dystopian snot from a statue her brain was frozen and formed ice in her mind a lacuna without inlet or outlet arrested in time mind’s skates tied up in bundles of ......

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Categories: amphora, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Threat of Extinction
...Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning Letters ......

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Categories: amphora, poems,
Form: Free verse
Ins and Outs Part 2
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts. Part 2 act three in the third act delirious the laws of physics......

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Categories: amphora, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Purple
...I smell no Jasmines, Daisies or Geraniums this Summer Nor my soul desires an ancient amphora Crimson riddles my skin My mind is an Amethyst. An Amaranth a fixed star; an amulet To whic......

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Categories: amphora, allegory, joy, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
To My Never Was
...travelling to my never was, my yearly time in the yard spring time back to cold Ohio gripped in nonsense and melancholy I travel to old town misted by the cuyahoga surprised yet not I find the......

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Categories: amphora, family, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
To Remembrance
...Thick web of silence, ether which retains My distant days’ dim trace of tears on sand! You are the amphora whose dark wine pains My drowsy brain with thoughts forever banned. Deceitful lord of lo......

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Categories: amphora, memory, mythology, sad, time,
Form: Rhyme
Setting Sail For Italy
...Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus, and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon. Then he'll depart carryin......

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Categories: amphora, character, city, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme
A Song For My Beloved
...Our Beloved returns with a mighty entourage his banner men ride before him they are swifter than stallions and their weapons as the talons of eagles their chariots a......

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Categories: amphora, bible, inspiration, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 07
...Brutust Iulius Trois Page 07 Brutus called his captains into conference we are done with creeping along the shorelines prepare now to sail out across the Aegean the winds are with us and Troy aw......

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Categories: amphora, history,
Form: Epic
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06
...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06 The defeated Pandrasus spoke out his weary words weighted with wisdom. Linus is as Greek as I am Greek and as a Greek let him inherit the crown, I'll name no other ......

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Categories: amphora, history,
Form: Epic
Count On It
...count on it... that numbers made the world we came to believe after all ten digits long ago ran out and we stuck our toes into the fray to count and be counted anyway and they too ran out a foot a......

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Categories: amphora, imagination, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Commerce
...The snarled monogamy needs a firework. A solitary moon walks on a lake nonchalantly. The marriage between the planet and moon was falling apart. In amphora lies the secret of a jeweled crown. Cynic......

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Categories: amphora, art, planet,
Form: ABC
Cherish the Kisses
...Precious-tears-offered in-faith... fall, God-catches them places them, within His Soul's Heavenly-Amphora, and with a sway of His Mighty Hand, plucks-up His eminent- Knowledge-honed by Hol......

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Categories: amphora, inspirationalfreedom,
Form: Prose Poetry

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