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Best Amphora Poems


Purple
...I smell no Jasmines, Daisies or Geraniums this Summer

Nor my soul desires an ancient amphora

Crimson riddles my skin

My mind is an Amethyst.

An Amaranth a fixed star; an amulet

To whic......

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Categories: amphora, allegory, joy, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
~ the Narrow Roads Discerning ~
...~ At last! ~ At last! As 
a sweet rejoinder to Him my 
soul cried out aloud, at last, as I 
marveled in the benignity of my 
Lord. For imparting to me, the 
liberal blessing of my life .......

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amphora, inspirationalme, longing, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
Setting Sail For Italy
...Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy 
against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus,
and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon. 
Then he'll depart carryin......

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Categories: amphora, character, city, conflict, courage,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Count On It
...count on it...

that numbers made the world
we came to believe
after all ten digits 
long ago ran out
and we stuck our toes into the fray
to count and be counted anyway

and they too ran out
a foot a......

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amphora, imagination, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Brutus Iulius Trois Page 07
...Brutust Iulius Trois Page 07
Brutus called his captains into conference
we are done with creeping along the shorelines 
prepare now to sail out across the Aegean
the winds are with us and Troy aw......

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Categories: amphora, history,
Form: Epic
Commerce
...The snarled monogamy
needs a firework.
A solitary moon walks on a lake
nonchalantly.

The marriage
between the planet and moon
was falling apart.
In amphora lies the secret

of a jeweled crown. Cynic......

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Categories: amphora, art, planet,
Form: ABC



Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06
...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06

The defeated Pandrasus spoke out
his weary words weighted with wisdom. 
Linus is as Greek as I am Greek and as a Greek
let him inherit the crown, I'll name no other ......

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Categories: amphora, history,
Form: Epic
A Song For My Beloved
...Our Beloved returns        with a mighty entourage
his banner men ride before him
             they are swifter than stallions 
and their weapons          as the talons of eagles
their chariots a......

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Categories: amphora, bible, inspiration, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
To Remembrance
...Thick web of silence, ether which retains
My distant days’ dim trace of tears on sand!
You are the amphora whose dark wine pains
My drowsy brain with thoughts forever banned.
Deceitful lord of lo......

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Categories: amphora, memory, mythology, sad, time,
Form: Rhyme
~ Poem the 1st Chap. Inspired Bye ~ Part #18
...Because-love exults eternally, universal 
peace, and so I say Love- in its benignity ... 
recuses all ... ~and perfect- and servant 
in their fervent manner;- integrity, 
receptivity- and......

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amphora, uplifting
Form: Prose Poetry
To My Never Was
...travelling to my never was,
my yearly time in the yard
spring time back to cold Ohio
gripped in nonsense and melancholy
I travel to old town
misted by the cuyahoga
surprised yet not I find
the......

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Categories: amphora, family, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cherish the Kisses
...Precious-tears-offered in-faith... fall, God-catches them places them, within His 
Soul's Heavenly-Amphora, and with a sway of His Mighty Hand, plucks-up His eminent-
Knowledge-honed by Hol......

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amphora, inspirationalfreedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Etruscan Rose
...Etruscan rose
a purpled blue,
I write a melody for you
Etruscan rose
magenta  shade,
for you this pollonaise 
is played.

Note like petals
spiral down
through Etruria
and "round
ancient r......

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Categories: amphora, death, lost love, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Catarrh and Catharsis
...... stalactites hung like dystopian snot from a statue 

her brain was frozen and formed ice in her mind

a lacuna without inlet or outlet arrested in time

mind’s skates tied up in bundles of ......

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Categories: amphora, depression,
Form: Free verse
Ins and Outs Part 2
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 2

act three

in the third act delirious 
the laws of physics......

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Categories: amphora, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things