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Best Grecian Poems

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Premium Member Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part Two
Achilles, The Journey To Troy, 
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)

Achilles, The Journey To Troy

Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...

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Categories: grecian, art, death, hero, literature,
Form: Rhyme



An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: grecian, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: grecian, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Favorite Poet POTD
From among the poets who fired my imagination
whom shall I choose, can’t bring myself to pick
and place from dozens, just one above all the rest!

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Categories: grecian, appreciation, poetry, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grecian, humor,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Medusa's Love
Medusa’s Love

Medusa is a hideous and vile creature of Grecian yore. 
Medusa, once a high priestess in the Temple of Athena,
Suffered Athena’s unforgiving wrath for...

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Categories: grecian, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Elaelana
Elaelana- A Nymph In the Forest
Inspired by Charles Amable Lenoir's painting, "A Nymph In the Forest"

Pronunciation: 
Elaelana; Eh-lee-LAY-nuh, 
Naphesai; Nah-feh-SIGH, 
Mylesia; My-lee-SEE-uh

Elaelana, forest goddess, kneels...

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Categories: grecian, art, flower, nature, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis
Sappho
Crimson lips, lovers awaken with a kiss
Creamy white skinned Goddesses resting
In a time where Socrates lusted after Sappho's 
Poetry and art.
 
The Grecian people worshiped...

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Categories: grecian, love
Form: Sapphic stanza
Whispers In the Dark
I was fed a brain scorpion tonight.
Small sting...  but a cute glimmer of the things to come.
Hypodermic needle pinning point blank on my frontal...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grecian, fear, me, mystery, ,
Form: Free verse
A Classic Summer In Greece For Fantasy Contest
A CLASSIC SUMMER IN GREECE

               Viciousness and mystery erupt on arid...

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Categories: grecian, life, lost love, love,
Form: Couplet
Kissing In the Garden
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces" 
               ...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grecian, lost love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Greek Tragedy
I knew an old woman from Greece
Whose whinging words would seldom cease
She’d constantly whine
When drunk on red wine
Her husband’s in dire need of peace!


How much cash...

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Categories: grecian, humorous, husband, relationship, wife,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Squabblesons
During their courting days into her limpid eyes he would gaze.
When in his arms his many charms set her very soul ablaze!
The sweet nothings once...

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Categories: grecian, funny, husband, wife
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of the Famed Labors of Hercules Ninth Poet, Poet Dedication Series, Emma Lazarus
Of The Famed Labors Of Hercules
ninth poet, poet dedication series, Emma Lazarus

Through Time's mesmerizing and meandering paths,
Colossus of heroic worship rightly praised,
He that vented his...

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Categories: grecian, appreciation, art, dedication, hero,
Form: Rhyme
The Alchemist's Tale
Prologue 

Of the alchemist’s physique I expound upon thee
A white feathered cap wore he jauntily, cocked to a side.
His sight like a moles’, aided by...

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Categories: grecian, imaginationme, night, me, night,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things