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Best Greek Mythology Poems


Premium Member Greek Mythology:Orion
Orion was the son of Neptune (EA). A handsome giant and a mighty hunter. Orion loved Merope, the daughter of Denopion, King of Chios, and sought her in marriage. He cleared the island of wild beasts, and brought the spoils of the chase as presents...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greek mythology, creation, mythology, planet, universe,
Form: Narrative
Theseus of Greek Mythology
clew
a thread
unraveled
it pulls me back
away from the scene
where I had done battle
other heroes are god-touched
their fathers' powers aiding them
sore and wounded ... I retrace my steps
the heartstring of my love will pull me through...

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Categories: greek mythology, adventure, god, hero, love,
Form: Etheree
Seirenes - Sea Nymphs - Greek Mythology Contest
The song they sing 
Will bewitch you
Promising you everything
Warming your bed to loving you

Heartbreakers for sure
Full of wickedness and sin
They are so evil
Promising love but taking a life

They were handmaidens to the
Goddess Persephone 
When Haides abducted her

Given bodies of birds
Sent to search for her 
got...

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Categories: greek mythology, mythology, myth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



two bodies one soul
reversed and reformed repost edit.

once before humans walked the earth. before Adam and Eve before the trees and the air we breathe there was one- 


one physical body with four legs four arms and two heads as well as one soul accompanied by one heart....

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Categories: greek mythology, allusion, analogy, angst, death,
Form: Narrative
A Fool’s Flight
It may be one of the most poetic ending of all
Icarus’ fall, that is 
Stupid, prideful Icarus 
The boy who flew too close to sun and expected not to burn 
He learned that things can be beautiful
But intangible and fatal 
Everyone talks about his death
How...

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Categories: greek mythology, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sun's Reprisal
The rising red sun
arousing Mother Gaea 
with bright red embers....

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Categories: greek mythology, mythology, nature, sun, sunshine,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Ode To Poseidon
Cronus would never be defeated, or so he thought.
Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon a lesson taught.
Zeus took the sky, Hades the underworld, Poseidon the sea.
Poseidon became father of floods, hurricanes, storms, all three.

He somehow also grabbed up horses, which seems a stretch.
But this is Greek mythology,...

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Categories: greek mythology, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Icarus
Wings, gifted to him.
Tools of freedom and one’s end.
Follow instructions....

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© Sara J   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greek mythology, lost, myth, mythology, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Cereberus
Dread dog
Shadowy flame of death
Guardian,protector of the ancient doors
Where in lies the underworlds breath
So beware the craggy shores of hell
Where sleeps the hound of Hades...

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Categories: greek mythology, myth, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hercules
Hercules
Hero mortal of Greek Mythology
Hera his mother jealous of him 
Had left him in the woods to expire
Hidden and fed from Minerva’s nipple
He is imbued with strength
Hence “The Strongest of all Gods”
His twelve labors a penance fulfilled...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greek mythology, mythology,
Form: Pleiades
Icarus and the Sun
Every day and night
I sit within my tower.
The sun scorching with all its might
Waiting to melt me and drag me lower.

The dream to escape my confinement
Avoiding the Sun’s wrath to make me trip.
I still have to fulfil the requirements
To break free of the haters’ grip....

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© Joan Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greek mythology, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Echo
embalmed in the roots
                                  beneath the methuselah
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Categories: greek mythology, fairy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Erato
Erato

Each of the nine Muses
Endeavor to inspire.
Erato, lyre in hand,
Engages with men's minds,
Elegantly with words ...
Each phoneme, each pattern
Encourages lyrics....

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Categories: greek mythology, inspiration, muse, mythology, poetry,
Form: Pleiades
Sinking My Teeth Into You
It once belonged to me,
but you’ve since traded it it,
exchanging every sacrifice,
every fiber of my life,
for your new world
your new wife.

I’m covered in blood
we brought into this world,
but it stains only your hands.
As I watch the souls 
I brought into this world,
leave silently, innocently,
I picture...

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Categories: greek mythology, allusion, anger, betrayal, gothic,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Thanatos Cold Embrace Of Death
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Everyone grieves in their own way ~ time will only tell if healing comes,   *           for some, deaths blanket; unbearable and Thanatos is nearby —poetess
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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greek mythology, death, grief,
Form: Free verse

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