Best Arion Poems

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History Rising from the Sea

Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth century artifact
By ancestors hewn

Earth's history lays buried
Beneath five oceans
As undersea tremors
Create violent commotions

Freeing from Spanish galleons
Precious metals, gemstones,
To greet early beachcombers
History on loan

Memories of bygone ages
Scattered on the sand
Finally kissed by sun again
While...

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Moonlight creeps through the writhing woodland as 
Arion walks alongside me—upward toward the lone mountain. 
We had trekked for miles and the way was wearisome,
heavy fog in its obscuring fidelity stalking our every step. 

Winds shrieked around us like dissonant flutes—
high pitched, fortissimo screams that...

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Stallions, like species of all creatures, countless in legends,
Chetak, an Indian horse, was peerless in elegance!
Arion, per myths, speaking-horse! Balius, immortal!
Chetak, wise! Served his master, never with ego at all!

Stallion of Maharana Pratap, the king of Mewar,
Had to indulge, with small and great kings, frequently...

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The man had always seen the dolphin in his tree…he never had a doubt
and using a chain saw when that live oak died…he let that dolphin out.

You see his parents used to love the stars…they’d sit for hours enjoying the view
and through the myths and...

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