Best Athens Poems

The Death Of Socrates
What reasoning has brought you to this place
where death destroys your gift of sanctity?
Before the fall of night, and in disgrace
yes, all those hating you, shall make it be;

they'll label you confused right to your end
corrupter of all teachers of the truth
convincing...

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fish markets bristle
tourist traps brim with coy baits
acropolis shrouds...

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Glory day self conflict to appease the cover of a imagine, 
Let take into the vision or the visionary, 
Time pass passing time yet evolve is concept that stand tall, 
Height of tower to reach a peek question evolve seeking, 
the vision or the visionary?...

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Athens 
This time I was in Athens and met a woman in a park, 
she promised me sex a moment of greatness I would 
come back to her begging her for more. 
I was in my late thirties, knew that sex with a prostitute 
was...

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Oh great courtesan of ancient Athens
Remove your cloths and step into the sea.
Astound the hearts of men and women,
A divine answer to all prayer and plea.

The King of Lydia sought out your grace,
But for all his wealth you found him loathsome.
He enslaved his people to...

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The three hundred
shall perish again,
As history repeats
itself.
Although this time,
it may only be 297.
My mother was
possessed by the
God, Apollo,
On the 21st the new
Oracle of Delphi is
crowned.
And although the
prophet is blind,
it makes the
prediction no less
false,
the narrative no
less compelling.

We live in the time
of the 7th great
extinction,
Yet our people,
occluded...

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THE FALL OF ATHENS
Let all the wrath, unmercifully divine,
we have to muster, lead us in our quest,
and bring Athenian rule to be in line,
as sure the gods provide they fail the test,

all in our time, for Lacedaemon rules,
have we not made of man the equal...

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We’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little ‘heat domes’ and temperatures well into the hundreds. Show-offs. In...

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Of towers and castles this land can account
None can eclipse this Acronian Mount
A donated token from cardinal minds
Fools of their worth, this city reminds

Whose former professors were junkies and crooks
For genius impermanent luck he mistook
Oblivious yet, he outfaced the arena
Th’Academy—nation of pallas Athena

Their reason remote...

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THE FALL OF ATHENS
Let all the wrath, unmercifully divine,
we have to muster, lead us in our quest,
and bring Athenian rule, to be in line,
as sure the gods provide they fail the test.

All in our time, for Lacedaemon rules,
have we not made of man the equal...

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sitting atop a hill
watching the sun rise behind a hill out in the distance
with pearl jam’s 
“long road”
humming warm in my ears
the light shone over the city
& i could not hear the meowings 
of the 
seven or eight stray cats climbing up the hill that...

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What killed Socrates.
a weed or Aristophanes?
What caused an end so dire?
The law or just satire?
The cries of ignorant crowds.
or something in 'The Clouds'?...

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When grapes ripen and flow down barrels,
drunk ancient Greeks abandon morals,
roar accosts their ears from distant cave,
ushers season of feasting and rave!

With every roar spreads odour of wine,
with it fear! he is coming to dine!!!
wander not far, nor be lured by smell,
when he comes to...

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