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Apollos Poems - Poems about Apollos

Premium MemberThoughts about how to be adequate flow through my mind like relentless waves

...Thoughts about how to be adequate flow through my mind like relentless waves,
Persisting in their demands as they echo my name,
This world, a wild beast that cannot be tamed.
The weight is immense...
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Categories: apollos, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThis beautiful creature lives in me

...I am but a poet not a scholar 
but a writer creating my own 
network of emotions balanced 
over sudden mental break’s 
absence of tolerance to be 
quieted to be numb empty 
eccentrically desire...
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Categories: apollos, allah,
Form: Quatrain



Premium MemberUnder Pressure

...Shoulders heavy and strain.
Thoughts of being proper in my brain.
Keep holding them up as they say my name.
This world cannot be tamed.

The weight is heavy and unbearable.
Weakening my tested ...
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Categories: apollos, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Ocean Beckons -POTD

...The waves crushing her tiny body with striking blows
White creamy wash caresses her golden skin as the wave slows
Moving sluggishly towards the horizon
Because of a recurring vision she hopes ...
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Categories: apollos, fantasy, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy God, Thank You For Giving Me Sure Increase

...November 2 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 3-5

Key Verses – 1Corinthians 1:6-7 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing...
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Categories: apollos, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFour

...Alan Shepard, astronaut, took golf balls to the moon
He whacked them only when he knew that he’d be leaving soon
‘One flew two hundred yards,’ he said, ‘and as I recollect
one came down in a crate...
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Categories: apollos, golf, space,
Form: Rhyme

Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii

...Sonnets XXV-XXXII

Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eye...
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Categories: apollos, bereavement, body, cancer, change,
Form: Sonnet

Sonnets X-Xvi

...Sonnets X-XVI


Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes'...
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Categories: apollos, art, body, god, life,
Form: Sonnet

Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation

...Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk...
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Categories: apollos, art, body, god, life,
Form: Sonnet

Rilke Translations I

...Archaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions...
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Categories: apollos, art, life, love, tribute,
Form: Verse

The Amok of Pedro By Robinson Cavalcanti

...Pedro, the traitor of Jesus Christ
This man, if he could be called a man
Killed 12 followers of Christ
Like a crazed Wolfman

Pedro firstly meet with Christ in a forest
Christ asked him if he h...
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Categories: apollos, murder,
Form: Narrative

Bel Air-Lana Del Rey

...“Bel Air” ~ Lana Del Rey
Ashen stoic gargoyles sit amongst the gates
The sunlight shines through heaven's doors.
I'm impatient and apollos chariot awaits.
You'll be my golden wings as I soar
up ...
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Categories: apollos, fantasy, god, myth, sad
Form: Sonnet

Barren of People

...Barren of People

Some people are so empty within
Do they hear the echo of the fallen footfall
There are museums without many statues
Grande they are standing with outstanding
pillars, porticoe...
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Categories: apollos, appreciation, art, beauty, mum,
Form: Free verse

Sunrise

...There is a very special place I know
Where the east and west are one,
As north and south bend Apollos bow
So you launch towards the sun....
And a star that shoots across the sky
Leaves its trail...
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Categories: apollos, inspirational
Form: Light Verse

Power

...Through the heavy hand of solemn quest

Chosen vestibules in relentless jest
Onto the corporate head through exploits support
Just a question of fools spoiling all the rules
Phat cats with blue ...
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Categories: apollos, adventure, art, brother, business,
Form: Free verse

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