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Best Colosseum Poems

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Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: colosseum, passion, places,
Form: Epic



Premium Member White Picket Fence
Featuring: Keith :)
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Fresh sand garments 
The Mental Colosseum floor
Self-infliction's--waging wars 
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~ AND THE POEM BEGINS ~

A mask, tiny holes
Breathing heavily
Dancing around my toes
Broad carbon steel
Safe...

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Categories: colosseum, adventure, art, beauty, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weathered
Diminished by age, a weathered existence limps
Crutching dimmed vision and impaired limbs,
Much wiser that before, it speaks wisdom words
Entertaining grandkids in stories that enlighten,

Wishing the...

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Categories: colosseum, age, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superbowl Sunday
There’s a new American Holiday, guess what it is my football loving friends,
It’s a classical sport of champions, where helmet headed, game geared
Warriors challenge raw...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colosseum, adventure, conflict, football, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Icelandic Phallological Museum- Bawdy Limerick For Tom
In Iceland there’s a Willy museum
It’s not huge like an old Colosseum
Filled with all types of willies
It would give me the sillies
But people pay lots...

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Categories: colosseum, humorous, places,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Lyre Was His Disguise
Nero was a cruel, unfair emperor playing 
the lyre as his disguise to conceal his consuming guilt;
and he caused destruction without feeling
an ounce of pity...

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Categories: colosseum, confusion, death, loss, music,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Coach
His is the whispering voice echoing within the athlete’s field of dreams,
The harkening leader, a teacher of strength and confidence, whom takes
The raw abilities given...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colosseum, adventure, baseball, destiny, football,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The World Is a Small Plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul...

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Categories: colosseum, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Narrative
Seven Wonders of the World
' Seven wonders' 
Seven wonders are in the world,
Get to the point that never hurled,
Follows are the seven wonders,
Get to the efforts to pass the...

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Categories: colosseum, beauty, creation, history, memorial
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Landmarks I'D Still Like To Visit
In spite of enjoying a very happy life

There are things I wish I had done

Like running naked through the Trevi Fountain

Or climbing the pyramids with...

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Categories: colosseum, nonsense, silly,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Vacation Where History Was Made
My lifetime dream hasn't been realized yet;
I like to travel to Europe where History was made.
I will start with the glorious city of Rome
with its...

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Categories: colosseum, art, beautiful, dream, french,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seventeen Hundred Creations
Dragon has left the winter behind; but’s still wound up & flighty as a bat.
He’s in competition with a friend, to be more creative than...

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Categories: colosseum, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Roman Vacation
Years back, I shimmered in her glow
a city wrapped in rich crochet…
my best friend sipping espresso
down Vatican and lit subway,
where nights  of Rome danced...

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Categories: colosseum, happiness, places, vacation,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Coloseum
The Colosseum, welcome young gladiator,
To the arena of death, sharpen thy sword, and raise
Your shield high, bow to the emperor, known as
Caesar.
Listen to the mighty...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colosseum, history, imagery, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Monument of Greatness
Built with the sweat and blood of slaves,
the Colosseum is a monument of greatness
to testify the glorious might of Rome...
in the arena, chariots fights were...

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Categories: colosseum, games, history, , western,
Form: Rhyme

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