Best Apollo Poems

Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin
were the three that made up the crew
to be the first men to set foot on the moon
was what they were determined to do.

1969 was the year that it happened
16 July was the day
early that morning the blast- off took place
Apollo 11...

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Dionysian passion fills my soul 
With a stream of life, that knows no restraint, 
Your frantic current defies all control-
Awakens the devil within the saint.

Injected with life, I'm lost in your force 
As waves of strange visions rend me apart, 
For purpose that has no...

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Through a forest of heavenly marble columns
Upon a bed of silvery mist with golden dew
Into the realm of Mount Olympus, Apollo dreams
Slumber oh grace thy eternal beauty of youthful man
Magnificent surrounds your godly radiance
The world of ancients waited your awaking
The Sun arose for your command

Once...

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I never meant that much to you,
   Though from Olympus' heights you came;
Yet I gave you my mortal love,
   While you played your immortal game.

Although my heart I freely gave,
   I never meant that much to you;
You wooed me...

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~Apollo And Daphne~
(Eight By Four)


Apollo's first love
a beautiful
maiden that when
Apollo saw her
in the woods fell
in love with-but
Daphne fled from
him just frightened

Apollo was in
such hot pursuit
that when she felt
his breath she screamed
at her father
the god Peneus
who just changed her
into a tree.



Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2011


October.19.2016



~Author's  Notes:

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I am not a sanctuary
do not come to me for sanctuary, 
I am a supernova,  the Saturn V rocket
prepared to penetrate the highest blue sky
with a 6.5 million pound payload ride,
my rocket shell steams in idle
while erect in your atmosphere
the liquid oxygen and hydrogen
of...

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Silver floats the moon and boughs slender sway,
fleeing on her trembling breath
her light feet braves.
Rising of the lea in the dappled grey,
As she wore her verdant robes,
on her vestal form in surging waves.
He shielded her beauty in his embrace..
Her golden showers 'tween their stillness clasp,
as...

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Sun drenched waves lapping
Beams dancing along the shore
Spreading rays of life...

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~Apollo And Daphne~
(Eight By Four)



Apollo's first love
a beautiful
maiden that when
Apollo saw her
in the woods fell
in love with,  but
Daphne fled from
him just frightened

Apollo was in
such hot pursuit
that when she felt
his breath she screamed
at her father
the god Peneus
who just changed  her
into a tree.



Dorian Petersen Potter
aka...

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Your muscular body glistened

As warm golden streaks of sun

Streamed down on you

You’re standing in the lake

In the level of your sinewy thighs

Where water is solemn and blue

As if your ember like body

Is dipped in the blue

To cool off the hotness within

Are you possessed

with the spirit...

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It was the third lunar mission
Of the Apollo space program;
Destination was the earth’s moon
Where two men were going to land.

Neil Armstrong was the Commander;
Piloting the Columbia was Michael Collins;
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin would Pilot the Eagle;
The landing craft they would land in.

Aldrin landed the Eagle
In the...

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APOLLO 11 BRIGHTENS OUR FUTURE

Beyond the twinkling stars, so still - the dark.
We strive for greater things - the Moon and Mars.
And Venus we do praise her beauty mark.
Our Milky Way -  homogenized gold stars.

Forgotten Pluto, runt, invisible.
And mando Jupiter, so powerful.
Each planet thrives...

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Fair Apollo, may I borrow your golden lyre
So I might strum a heavenly chord full of fire
Else, let me pluck a laurel from your grove
Towards greatness, ever I strove

But alas my fingers are not nimble and quick
My wire sung words sting and stick
O Apollo were...

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Of antiquity's Gods I know little, 
And yet somehow feel fit as a fiddle, 
God of poems and plague
(Though connection's quite vague!) , 
But real life seems to rest in the middle.

Brian Johnston
August 2,2014

Poet's Notes: 
With special thanks to Daniel Brick of PoemHunter.com for tempting...

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POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID

These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub shooting arrows and making people fall in love, the ancient...

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