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Best Minoan Poems

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Premium Member Iris-W
Prized for perfumes and medicines,
Rainbow personified & God’s messenger,
Resting the souls of dead women,
Decorum of the graves,
Delight of the ancient artists.

Blooming on Minoan Walls,
Sculptured in...

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Categories: minoan, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Iris-Ii-W
Prized for perfumes and medicines,
Rainbow personified & God’s messenger,
Resting the souls of dead women,
Decorum of the graves,
Delight of the ancient artists.

Blooming on Minoan Walls,
Sculptured in...

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Categories: minoan,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Curriculum Vitae
She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s...

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Categories: minoan, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Iris-W
Prized for perfumes and medicines,
Rainbow personified & God’s messenger,
Resting the souls of dead women,
Decorum of the graves,
Delight of the ancient artists.

Blooming on Minoan Walls,
Sculptured in...

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Categories: minoan, nature,
Form: Lyric
An Ode To Ancient Greece
Oh, ancient Greece, 
How much you have filled my soul.
The aesthetics of your kind, 
Are more than satisfied
By your beautiful eyes.

The epics of grace, 
Odysseus...

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Categories: minoan, history
Form: I do not know?



She Falls In Love
I am proud
And feel I am upon a cloud
Because of my womanhood
As I have found you
Who almost always
Makes me feel so good

From your turquoise ocean
I...

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Categories: minoan, animal, autumn, bird, dark,
Form: Free verse
Resurrecting Icarus
Resurrecting Icarus
or
A Modern Moral Fable
by
Rick Folker
Kansas City, Mo


Daedalus claimed the sky,
Built a labyrinth from which
Theseus could fly
...
Minos enraged, entombed the 
Treacherous Daedalus in a tower
No...

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Categories: minoan, allegory, death, growth, mythology,
Form: Classicism
Kalihta
Put your fingers into kalihi*,
Kalihta.

There is nothing there.
But it is so beautiful.
Your fingers – kalihi…
A fresco.
It remained of ???ss??**
in a boundless sea.

And my eyes.

*a kind...

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Categories: minoan, love, sea,
Form: Free verse
Trilobite Shores.
When heart of me be despot,
Solation overwhelms my serbonian mind.
On shoal of sand I take me there,
To lie in tamarisk bed of natures hand.

With tearful...

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© Keith Drew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minoan, imagination, inspirational, philosophy, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Iris
Prized for perfumes and medicines,
Rainbow personified & God’s messenger,
Resting the souls of dead women,
Decorum of the graves,
Delight of the ancient artists.

Blooming on Minoan Walls,
Sculptured in...

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Categories: minoan, nature
Form: Personification
Menelaus
Eyes, in such a way, that some strange virture, some everlasting release
Was imparted to he. A strange bargain indeed; to resist the gods and to...

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Categories: minoan, angel, anger, aubade, bird,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 6
John: Sounds like I might like to straddle her equator with my meridian and throw down with a hula hoop on each arm. How soon...

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Categories: minoan, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Poet In Pursuit of Theme
O' mother of the universe...
From Alkebulan, Indus Valley, 
And Egypt to Minoan mounts;
You once ruled the world;
All revered your divinity force,
Ravaged devils, 
Gave life to...

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Categories: minoan, beautiful, beauty, environment, poems,
Form: Prose Poetry
Prevelli Ravine ( Crete 1992 )
Prevelli Ravine ( Crete 1992 )



Ghost song
The ancient priest left in the monastery stone
Long before my encounter
Within the walls repeat their long labour
Monument and missionary...

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Categories: minoan, mystery, placeswater, water,
Form: Free verse

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