Best Olympians Poems

Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)

Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they...

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When you believe 
In yourself 
You can achieve miracles. 

Like Olympians, 
Who can run 100 yards in under ten seconds, 
Who can lift over 450...

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Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless...

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The Champion

Controlled by remote desires  I trip the laurel fuse of longing ancestry
My Mom had been chosen to compete diving from the high platform...

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A storm is brewing as the wind hastens,
the darkening troposphere trembles
with the tornado's teeming tempest afar.
Cumulonimbus clouds meet, gathering to 
brood, to share their destructive...

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Is there no place for us ? 
In this world of work and fuss ?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye...

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THE COMING OF SPRING


Heralds of euphoria, 
Your anxious trumpets make to
Wait no more
For
The Olympians to hear the
Festive news yearn:
Persephone is released
From
Pluto’s palaces, to 
The upper...

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A lean physique
Born to compete
A champion athlete
Blessed with unnatural talent
A gift so unique
A manner so oblique
A marathon in a single step
A phenomenon no man scan...

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Hey everyone it’s me again
thanks for having me present
I’ll do my best not to offend
as I share and truthfully admit
I get dumb when I don't...

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SENIORS OLYMPICS

Images of fearsomely fit youth everywhere,
healthy people, all bronzed, featured
by the second, on screens and public spaces : 
fit and flash, but always ...

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Simon used to take part in motocross,
Before his bike stalled once mid-air,
When he was training on his farm land,
Which left him paralysed waist down.

He was...

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~Amor Fati~

Justin Richter

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It is no wonder, looking up at the cosmos,
That they worshipped the Gods -
The diviners of Reason
And the theologians of old.

But how devout...

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Passion and courage; the Olympians catalyst and reward…

Such are the ingredients with which, to build champions.

It takes more strength to build courage, than to challenge...

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This is a story that goes back some twenty years
To when with the Special Olympics I did volunteer
I worked with the older Olympians who were...

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Asclepius is staring at the beam of a balance,
heart on pan and gold bars opposite

the heart is pastel gray the gold is glittering 
the heart...

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