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Appian Poems - Poems about Appian


Premium Member My Appian Way
...all roads lead to rome they used to say i contemplate the roads I travel the milestones of oneness the monuments of memories i find they lead not to a city in italy but to our home walkin......

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Categories: appian, husband, love, marriage, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rustic Crusts of Manna
...The Rustic Crusts of Manna Davie J Walker I am the one who stripped the Sponsor from my jersey And the number meaning nothing But an identity recorded in a dry book Making me invisibl......

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Categories: appian, allegory, faith,
Form: Rhyme



What Conscience Is To Shame
...Joplin was to Southern Comfort, what Hendrix was to smack Morrison was to masquerade, what Dylan never lacks Woodstock was to 69,’ what music was to rhyme Saigon was to those who stayed, wha......

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Categories: appian, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Quo Vadis
...(By ancient Christian tradition, there is a point on the Appian Way where Saint Peter, escaping from a Roman prison, met Jesus - and realised that he had to return and face martyrdom.) These ......

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Categories: appian, myth,
Form: Couplet
The Appian Way
...(The Appian Way was the main highway leading south from ancient Rome. It still exists today, and is a beautiful stretch of peaceful, traffic-free road, surrounded by Roman tombs and umbrella p......

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Categories: appian, history,
Form: Sonnet



Our Appian Way
...Rolling beyond the oblivion Reaching over the horizon Mile upon mile of paved way Sees me drive off and away The wheels spin tirelessly around Allowing me to glide over the open lands Across ......

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Categories: appian, adventure, allusion, beauty, car,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Yolanda of Rome
...i stood over looking the general view of the bath of caracalla evading sudatorium seduction the church of st. cesarea in palatio captured my thoughts rather quickly i entered sarcphagus of luciu......

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Categories: appian, devotion,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Mi Nona
...venice seemed a bit moving today i'd wondered over genova's coast hardly a peek over masone's entrance father was beneath himself filled with bitter rage it appeared my fetish for clark's tro......

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Categories: appian, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
Onward Soldier
...I must have marched the Appian Way in triumph, for I hear the drums again, and I am called by stouter hearts to march among the men who make their peace with death and breathe it in the fight, as se......

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Categories: appian, satire,
Form: Free verse
The Invisible Man
...My thoughts reflect upon the hour glass, and knowing with the bottom mostly full and darkness closer by, the thing I was supposed to do is undefined, retreating in the now descending dusk, a most sar......

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Categories: appian, allegory, art, art,
Form: Free verse
My Roman Ruins
...My Roman Ruins you are my rome, all roads lead home to you the ruins of my destruction on the rounding patchy earthen grounds strown with stiff marble columns that have long ago cracked a......

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Categories: appian, lost loveme,
Form: Free verse
My Roman Ruins
...my roman ruins you are my rome, all roads lead home to you the ruins of my destruction on the rounding patchy earthen grounds strewn with stiff marble columns that have long ago cracked a......

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Categories: appian, lost loveme,
Form: I do not know?

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