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Acropolis
Ancient fortress, the wind carried to me your silent call,
Commune with your warring deities way deep in my soul.
Rooted among the scarred ruins strewn through...

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Categories: acropolis, history, imagination,
Form: Classicism



Premium Member Delicious Food I Ate During My Travels
If you judge food with the quantity put before you
Then my first choice will be the Victoria Hotel*.
On Sunday lunch, food is too plentiful, makes...

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Categories: acropolis, food, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1996 Visit To Turkey
In Nineteen ninety-six, our son and wife, Majors
In US Army, moved to Izmir, their new base.
As usual, whatever place they were assigned, 
We flew to...

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Categories: acropolis, travel, vacation, , western,
Form: Blank verse
A - Anarchy
A. Anarchy

Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the adamant arsonist; the artful anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The ascended advocate...

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Categories: acropolis, america, art, community, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Day In Pergamon

Demesne
at Pergamon
stirred an epiphany.
The Aqueducts, Acropolis,
propinquity, Temple Dionysus,
Trajan Temple- all so magnificent.
Persian, Greek, and Roman wonders;
some standing, most lying...
erstwhile kingdoms,
all gone.

I viewed
and imagined
robust efflorescence
that once...

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Categories: acropolis, history, nostalgia,
Form: Rictameter



Premium Member Wrath of Zeus
The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
The Parthenon....

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Categories: acropolis, beauty,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member From Large To Small
From  ~  LARGE  ~  to  ~  small  ~

K~Konstantin had travelled the world in unbeknown searching~g   ...

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Categories: acropolis, meaningful,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Parthenon
Oh, Parthenon,* 
Sublime aesthetic structure, 
Embodiment of unparalleled elegance,
Incarnation of history, philosophy, and sciences,
Everlasting beacon of human civilization,
Glorification of architecture,
Pride of the western world

You, deathless...

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Categories: acropolis, art, beauty, culture, western,
Form: Free verse
Three Graces
Kissed by the rebel mouth of Dionysus

set tight against their fulsome lips;

lapped into shapes by intoxicant tongues,

arms fused in a chain of swaying hips.



Tiptoe this...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acropolis, allegory, life, passion, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Records of Past History
RECORDS OF PAST HISTORY



The past wasn’t all that great and the so-called “achievements” - say - 
Of the past pale when we compare them to...

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Categories: acropolis, introspectionpeople, sea, people, red,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Act of Love
Act of Love
Part1

Cain and Abel
no love lost
the bible
filled with blood
where is love?

White doves flies high
mocking those who preach
love
fields sowed in hate
at the acropolis

History repeats
the reaper...

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Categories: acropolis, art, integrity, paris, philosophy,
Form: Quintain (English)
My Royaume
I've never thought that i would feel this way,
But it finally happened somehow someday;
And i drowned in the deep oceans that looked at me.
I got...

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Categories: acropolis, angel, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Personification
Few Sensitive Other Callous To a Symbolic Gesture Earth Hour
For “EARTH HOUR” we pledged  without words rearranging,
Let us try and attempt to stop things from changing
Am doing my bit as promised to myself...

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Categories: acropolis, nature, words, nature, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Monica
It is slowly juxtaposition,

an oldies reith for an acoustic-ness-

and we make a mock,

drain the corner stores mox....

Engravings in luck and harmonious-

they take a tail for...

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Categories: acropolis, absence, allusion, dedication, hero,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member The Great Surprise a True Story
Once, I took some colleagues from a British university to the Acropolis for a tour of the Parthenon.
As I was explaining to my guests the...

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Categories: acropolis, death, heaven, life,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs