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Best Byzantine Poems

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Premium Member Venetian Visit
the light breeze
   cooled the morning sun
daytrip Venice
            had begun
vantage views
 ...

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Categories: byzantine, nostalgia, places, vacation,
Form: Rhyme



Vincent
July 29, 1890

Colored daubs and swatches
crave artist’s practiced hand.
Justice, nearly blind, yet watches—
unwrought art upon a stand.

Regard the brushes in a row—
the palettes and the...

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Categories: byzantine, betrayal, corruption, evil, vanity,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly...

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Categories: byzantine, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Experiencing Technical Difficulties
I've never twitted on Tweeter
nor am I an Instagrammarian
I've searched on Goggle
but cannot find MyFace on the interweb
I ask "how do I find the North...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: byzantine, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Color of My Heart
When young my world through rose tint glasses seen;
my life was grand and to all problems blind;
the world was never seen as byzantine;
no diff’rence ever...

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Categories: byzantine, color, conflict, hate, prejudice,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Brachiosaurus On the Interweb
I've never twitted on Tweeter
                nor am I an Instagrammarian
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: byzantine, age, nature, sunshine, technology,
Form: Free verse
Gbudu Gbang
ENOUGH WITH YOUR 
IRRITATING RUMPUS 
PANDEMONIUM GBUDU 
GBANG!
ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE HERE?
"I AM MY ME"...AND SO WHAT?
ARE YOU THE FIRST OR THE 
LAST,
TO HAVE...

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Categories: byzantine, people
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am
chaos, am i ... all that is not understood

poison, am i ... once on your lips, the taste of ruin

callow, am i ... a child's...

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Categories: byzantine, introspection,
Form: List
Mysterious Muse
A cartridge filled with a horde of shackled emotions, am I,
Trifle feelings loiter within me, until she elicits them out,
Wizened by time, she knows that...

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Categories: byzantine, appreciation, muse,
Form: Free verse
Cyprus
Dedicated to Eileen who has expressed her love for this beautiful isle.....


Roman mosaics and Phoenician tombs 
Byzantine castles and Venetian walls 
Pine clad mountains and...

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Categories: byzantine, beauty,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Morning Lover
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                        ...

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Categories: byzantine, happiness, imagination, life, mystery
Form: Haiku
Never Say Never
There are moments when troubles enter our life’s
And we can do nothing to avoid them
But the one's we can
They look convoluted unless we demystify
But we...

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Categories: byzantine, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse
Zoe
Am I considered lucky to be born into the purple?
I am the daughter of an emperor in Constantinople.
Actually, I am a prisoner in anguish and...

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Categories: byzantine, historyfather, father,
Form: Rhyme
The Renaissance
Tell all the worlds about the treasures found
Renaissance trace spellbound in the ancient form,
Tender and haunting; an era of time curves around
Past the present to...

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Categories: byzantine, art, birth, culture, england,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Greek Revolution 25 March 1821
Sleep our glorious ancestors, sleep!
Do not be disturbed.
We,
your descendants would never betray
The blood you have shed to liberate
Our land.
The Land of:
Homer and Hesiod
Aeschylus and Euripides
Socrates...

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Categories: byzantine, freedom, remembrance day, slavery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs