Athenian Poems - Poems about Athenian

...In the agora or out on the street Wherever public figures I did meet In conversation I loved to engage Only to find my questions would enrage I chipped and chipped at their exterior Their words......

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...They amaze me with their Athena thoughts - full-grown at birth - while I sit silently, my stereoscopic vision flat. As they speak, hypnotic images emerge with a three-dimensional power. I'm ove......

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...Utter brainless nincompoop in this poem heretofore addressing I wanna be forever free and clear from mortal anguish, and need more than a blessing - I need a miracle worker after confessing beh......

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...The Real Pheidippides Athenian messenger Pheidippides Died 30 years before the birth of Thucydides Most famous hemerodrome day-runner Ran a 300-mile ultramarathon stunner......

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...Nick's descent, his thoughts neutralized words that spill out, hobbled nonsensical dementia stifles all intentions, ......

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...August in Athens is always confusing I spent the evening looking at a white wall the moon had lit up, waiting for the movie to start. Staggered into a church where bearded priests handed out bags ......

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...WOMAN & MACHINE At a small hotel in Vitoria-Gasteiz working at a table adjacent to a balcony bounded and protected by an intricate wrought-iron barrier rail, I was watching pedestrians two s......

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...Many years ago, Before yours or my time, When the only way to Travel to and fro Was not with automobiles, Or cars or trains, Or even planes. But with a horse or a donkey. This happened in th......

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...Oh, Democracy,* You, the most desirable bride among Political systems, Your suitors many have been throughout History In every part of the world, you were the one They were after But Yo......

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...Athenian Epitaphs II These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ... Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: his owne......

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...Aphorisms or EPIGRAMS on God and Human FREEDOM (?) 1. God is hiding in plain sight: God is the background, the very canvas, without which the foreground, the ART, cannot be! The renowned ......

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...my Goddess entwines love and the kind of encouragement worthy of Thor on a pedestal of pure Athenian marble she inscribes my tablet chipping away a bit everyday the imperfections ar......

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...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......

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...said to have a face of true beauty so beautiful too beautiful deserving an Athenian beauty salon curse hours under the sculpting stylist's stolen eye honey when i'm done with you you'l......

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...1. In an ahistorical fog: all the Ways home, all the signposts, treacherously hidden by greedy men and women: all eyes off the ball: mere contemptible bourgeois folly. 2.......

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