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Best Assyrian Poems


Affliction of Assyria
...The sun had grown dark on that fearful day
When Rabshakah, the Assyrian entered the fray;
Their armor and weapons glittered like gold
As they surged ’cross the plains to storm Israel’s fold.

But Hez......

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Categories: assyrian, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marhaba
...Ancient tombs, of long ago times
Byblos, the walled city, fortress and shrines
Shrouded in mystery, wisdom's, and thyme
The Phoenicians sailed from this very port
Their ships full of knowledge an......

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Categories: assyrian, heaven, history, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
Prince of This World
...
Prince of this world,
you've meddled in the affairs of mankind
since the beginning
From the time of the Egyptian pharaohs,
whose gigantic pyramidal tombs
had been built primarily by slave l......

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Categories: assyrian, spiritual, truth, war,
Form: Epic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Beheading of Ninwe
...The Beheading of Nînwe

Ninwe is the ancient Syriac name for Mosul
(not to be confused with the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh)

Burned books
Dead poets
Dark ages of Mosul

Smattered relic......

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Categories: assyrian, abuse, allah, history, sin,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Rebuilding Megiddo
...Wearing her zippered jumpsuit of lime
My queen loves to survey the valley's field.
She dreams of finding a perfect place and time 
She can make her dream city something real.

Megiddo was an anc......

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Categories: assyrian, history, inspirational, placescity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sibling Rivalry With the Children of Abraham
...SIBLING RIVALRY BETWEEN THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

For thousands of years animosity has existed between the Arabs and the Jews, we know this, but what is the reason? 
Let’s go back in time and try t......

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Categories: assyrian, arabic, bible, christian, conflict,
Form: Didactic



Scenes From History Vault
...My mind is euphoric from scenes historic
Assyrian chariots innovative wheels bristling Mesopotamian plains
Paring the ranks of each, dated infantry formation
In Greece, anesthetizing anvil of the Dor......

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Categories: assyrian, history
Form: Rhyme
Assyrian Babbler
...

Emerald shiny baubles
attract wizard eyes ...
Balaam al-Oz
Assyrian acquisitions
be kryptonite-colored vanity
Ownership is an Alexandrian transaction,
a Grecian war rhetoric reaction......

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Categories: assyrian, history, identity, judgement, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Gabriel
...Do Angels tread on the souls of man?

    Guardian to every soul that is conceived
Enlighten knowledge of Heaven in us he weaves
But at our birth he clips our upper lip
And Heaven's knowledge we......

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Categories: assyrian, visionaryprayer, heaven, birth, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Tame Spiders
...she had a mind like a brushfire
ate the testicles of men at a glance 
and knew how to foreplay
my weaknesses like loaded dice
I was in a state of moral exhaustion
seeking the counsel of voodoo p......

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Categories: assyrian, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Tell
...The hill had stood on its plain for eons
between the mountains and the Sea,
Still, quiet, barren,
As the wind blew across it
And the stars shifted,

When a hunter 
Eight thousand years ago
Sa......

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Categories: assyrian, history,
Form: Free verse
Lands and Empires
...Kingdoms and countries fill the earth,
King and Queen, Prince and Princess wisely
Reign empire with providence sovereignty,
Royal rank, authority, and power with ties key.

Ancient Egyptian Empi......

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Categories: assyrian, america, england, political, spanish,
Form: Rhyme
Traveling Ancient Roads
...Foraging through time's annals
Peering through the faded panels
Catching a glint through corroded channels
Seeking the sallowing bridges to re-enamel
Shuffling along desert lanes beaten down by A......

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Categories: assyrian, history
Form: Rhyme
Babylon's Rising
...Babylon's Rising

I made my way to the grocery store
just like I did so many times
in the years before
asked the baker for some fresh unleavened bread
he looked at me as if to say what for
the......

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Categories: assyrian, visionaryme, time,
Form:
Heed the Nineveh Calling
...

Underground bunker earworms
love to listen
to the Archie messaging
Rapt in their sheltered atomic blast,
dreamy past rewind,
they snore ignore 
their borrowed time destiny

On a se......

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Categories: assyrian, dark, society, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry