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Athens Poems - Poems about Athens


Premium Member Athens
We’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little ‘heat domes’ and temperatures well into the hundreds. Show-offs. In Augusta, we creep into the 90s, some days, between daily...

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Categories: athens, humor, mom, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Panther
When grapes ripen and flow down barrels, drunk ancient Greeks abandon morals, roar accosts their ears from distant cave, ushers season of feasting and rave! With every roar spreads odour of wine, with it fear! he is coming to dine!!! wander not far, nor be lured by smell, when he comes to hunt... no one can tell! When in the deep forest all...

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Categories: athens, adventure, cat, celebration, dark,
Form: Rhyme



The Vagrant of Athens
Of towers and castles this land can account None can eclipse this Acronian Mount A donated token from cardinal minds Fools of their worth, this city reminds Whose former professors were junkies and crooks For genius impermanent luck he mistook Oblivious yet, he outfaced the arena Th’Academy—nation of pallas Athena Their reason remote like art to the blind Discussions ascended, yet he was behind Potential...

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Categories: athens, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hemlock Or the Power To Mock
What killed Socrates. a weed or Aristophanes? What caused an end so dire? The law or just satire? The cries of ignorant crowds. or something in 'The Clouds'?...

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Categories: athens, america, death, philosophy, satire,
Form: Epitaph
The School of Athens
Glory day self conflict to appease the cover of a imagine, Let take into the vision or the visionary, Time pass passing time yet evolve is concept that stand tall, Height of tower to reach a peek question evolve seeking, the vision or the visionary? , if fact hold matter time place with in end...

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Categories: athens, art,
Form: Free verse



Athens
Athens This time I was in Athens and met a woman in a park, she promised me sex a moment of greatness I would come back to her begging her for more. I was in my late thirties, knew that sex with a prostitute was like masturbating, a fantasy only more expensive I declined, we...

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Categories: athens, body, class, clothes, color,
Form: Blank verse
Athens Shall Burn For the 3rd Time
The three hundred shall perish again, As history repeats itself. Although this time, it may only be 297. My mother was possessed by the God, Apollo, On the 21st the new Oracle of Delphi is crowned. And although the prophet is blind, it makes the prediction no less false, the narrative no less compelling. We live in the time of the 7th great extinction, Yet our people, occluded like a rat in a maze dance, drink, and watch. For we are passengers on...

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Categories: athens, history, philosophy, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cause and Effect Death of Socrates - Fall of Athens
The Death Of Socrates What reasoning has brought you to this place where death destroys your gift of sanctity? Before the fall of night, and in disgrace yes, all those hating you, shall make it be; they'll label you confused right to your end corrupter of all teachers of the truth convincing all the world, you have no friend, and die for untold...

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Categories: athens, dedication, history, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Athens
fish markets bristle tourist traps brim with coy baits acropolis shrouds...

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Categories: athens, adventure,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Fall of Athens
THE FALL OF ATHENS Let all the wrath, unmercifully divine, we have to muster, lead us in our quest, and bring Athenian rule to be in line, as sure the gods provide they fail the test, all in our time, for Lacedaemon rules, have we not made of man the equal to the sight of death, upon the plights of fools resisting all...

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Categories: athens, adventure, angst, art, black
Form: Sonnet
Stray Cats In Athens
sitting atop a hill watching the sun rise behind a hill out in the distance with pearl jam’s “long road” humming warm in my ears the light shone over the city & i could not hear the meowings of the seven or eight stray cats climbing up the hill that i myself had been sitting on & now i see these cats...

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Categories: athens, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fall of Athens
THE FALL OF ATHENS Let all the wrath, unmercifully divine, we have to muster, lead us in our quest, and bring Athenian rule, to be in line, as sure the gods provide they fail the test. All in our time, for Lacedaemon rules, have we not made of man the equal to the sight of death, upon the plights of fools resisting all...

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Categories: athens, history
Form: Sonnet
Oh Great Courtesan of Ancient Athens (Phryne)
Oh great courtesan of ancient Athens Remove your cloths and step into the sea. Astound the hearts of men and women, A divine answer to all prayer and plea. The King of Lydia sought out your grace, But for all his wealth you found him loathsome. He enslaved his people to pay your price, Yet to Diogenes' mind: You succumb! The great mysteries...

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Categories: athens, passion, people, places, prayer,
Form: Sonnet

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