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The Bridge At Abydos 2
VII
There never was an army quite like Xerxes’.
Hyrcanians, Medes, Egyptians, Syrians, Scyths –
soon, Greece would grovel at its tender mercies –
a fate more gruesome than...

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Categories: abydos, history,
Form: Rhyme



The Bridge At Abydos 1
I
There are two ways of being in this world,
the eagle and the serpent, sometimes called:
while one seeks boundless heaven, wings unfurled,
the other through low dirt...

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Categories: abydos, history,
Form: Rhyme
Abydos - Opening of the Tomb
Well I can see the golden Falcon of Edfu
circling Abydos tonight in the shadow of
a blue moon, I can feel the cool, cool desert
winds walking...

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© Bo Lanier  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abydos, books, moon, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Incarnation
I  have been here, the touch of the rose petals under my feet...The drink of lotus wine, adorned in white lien  and gold......

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Categories: abydos, adventure, beautiful, deep, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hero and Leander - the Surface From Depth
Leander loved Hero, who lived on the opposite side of the strait, and would swim to her each 
night, but was drowned in a tempest....

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Categories: abydos, history, lost love, passiongod,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



To Tan a Ripper Hyde
As the receding 
nestles of dying
love 
in full bloom,
now 
sadly blown away.

The seasons of 
the massacreing 
tides of Autumn,
the soothing winds
of change,
now gently at bay.

As...

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Categories: abydos, angst, confusion, introspection, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Boweth Not Thoth When Thoth Thy Need Not
O Scribes of Thebes, take the noose, burn fiercely the words of Aleister Crowley.           ...

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Categories: abydos, allusion, analogy, angel, confidence,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things