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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: gladiators, passion, places,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Ufc
Where modern Gladiators go to collide
Like solders in prison these warriors ride

Mono el mono this is how they believe
No smoking mirrors or tricks up their...

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Categories: gladiators, dedicationtime,
Form: Couplet
My Family Is Everywhere
My family is everywhere like wild seeds sown
On the whim and bluster of a wind
Some left for Cuba before the revolution
Bring green stalks of sweet...

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Categories: gladiators, familyfamily, old, home, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brothers
I awoke to a memory that asked to be felt through the emotions of 
An early rising seeing boys playing in the park without wondering
...

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Categories: gladiators, family, life, life,
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: gladiators, adventure, conflict, football, history,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Alas, Poor Linda
ALAS, POOR LINDA

Alas, poor Linda!  I knew her as PD,
a poet of infinite interest,
of most excellent insight.
She has borne the brunt of conflict
a thousand...

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Categories: gladiators, eulogy,
Form: Verse
The Colosseo
Welcome to Rome, my dear friend
I hope you have a wonderful time
For here is the best place to spend 
Vacations and holidays that is so...

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Categories: gladiators, death, sad, sorrow, ,
Form: Rhyme
Maddening Mathematics
Converging forces, volatile and caustic
 Magnetism drew us two poles together
    south on south
Defying physics ,advice, and common sense
  We tempted...

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Categories: gladiators, friendship, passion
Form: Free verse
I Am the Banana Tree
I AM THE BANANA TREE


I am the banana tree
That dwells where rivers meet ;
I am the banana tree
That dwells where sun lives;
On fertility I tower...

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Categories: gladiators, africa, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched...

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Categories: gladiators, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Kings and Castles -
Everyone had a unique reason for playing the Game
as we find different means for surviving Life
until the proper seconds of Death come stomping by with...

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Categories: gladiators, art,
Form: Ode
Spoliarium
Masterpiece of an Indio
Legacy of one native Bravo

As I gaze at the piece
Memories of gladiators seize
Under the roofs of soft floors
Are bloodsheds on hard, scratched...

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Categories: gladiators, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Game of Thrones
Lovers then we became strangers
now full blown adversaries
enemies
gladiators armored for destruction.
This is no longer a relationship
it is a ruthless affair
a house of cards
kill zone
minefield 101.
Words...

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Categories: gladiators, anger, break up, deep,
Form: Concrete
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: gladiators, art, beautiful, dream, french,
Form: Rhyme
Take Back Your Children
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
A game that made your fingers throb
And Pacman was an intriguing game
A mission of sticking things in his gob
Who could ever forget Space...

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Categories: gladiators, childhood, funny, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

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