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Best Olympus Poems

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Premium Member Betrayed Expectations
I flew to Olympus, to find its heart,	
armour intact against Hades’ dark wrath.	
At birth the power of light made its start	  
as Homer's ghost...

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Categories: olympus, mythology,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Poets In Denial
Sing ye poets of stunning birds and butterflies wings.
Kiss ye, your own,Muse pen, on divine parchment, scribblings!

Ride in gentle winds upon your colorful, faux unicorn
Your...

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Categories: olympus, humanity, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Sijo -Virgin-
#3~"Lost not forgotten" 
"A solitary star had gone astray, yawning before the dark, 
hiding; straight ward, waver the wink of light, slowly fading. 
By my...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olympus, fantasy, winter,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus
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The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )


Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
...

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Categories: olympus, art, corruption, creation, imagination,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member Beacons of Light
As long as man has lived upon this Earth
     The quest for beacons of light has endured
Primitive cultures, man’s earliest ancestors
...

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Categories: olympus, faith, hope, inspirationallight, light,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member civil twilight -
we just met
yet ... I know you
as myself, I know you
before now, before then, before time
bounding a meadow through the dew of eventide
careful business for...

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Categories: olympus, appreciation, beauty, memory, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once Upon a Colorado Christmas
Splendor of soft shoulders
caressed by sinking sun
Out my window the western slope
of the thick coated Rocky Mountains
Once upon a clear cold Colorado Chrstmas 
purple brushed...

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Categories: olympus, christmas, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Betrayed Expectations
Betrayed Expectations 
    (Sonnet) 

I flew to Olympus, to find its heart	
armor intact against Hades' dark wrath.
At birth the power of light...

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Categories: olympus, appreciation, art, imagination, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Ares.
Thundering down Olympus
Treads Ares 
The battle master
Ashen 
Piceous clad
Against midnights cloak
Returning human spirit
To the heavens
For upon drowning
Within his crimson gaze
Do we understand
That in faith
Lies divinity



Note:...

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Categories: olympus, history, imagination, time, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apollo Dreams
Through a forest of heavenly marble columns
Upon a bed of silvery mist with golden dew
Into the realm of Mount Olympus, Apollo dreams
Slumber oh grace thy...

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Categories: olympus, visionaryworld, faith, sun,
Form: Rhyme
For Charlie, With Love
To thee I sing O’ muse of verse,
Of our world that the Gods do curse.
For what Gods are these who cruelly play,
Their wicked games, for...

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© Matt Riley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olympus, angst, family, world, heart,
Form: Epic
In the Silver Glow of Moonlight
In the silver glow of moonlight you are all I want to see,
You are every dark red rosebud, every line of poetry.

When we met, that...

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© Jeff Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olympus, loveme, red, dark, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Death In the Sun
At last
At last we know
He was not always to be
He was not permanent
Not the everlasting punished
Not the everlasting punisher
Not some northern Prometheus
Caught
Caught stealing ice and...

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Categories: olympus, hope, seasons
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wrath of Zeus
The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
The Parthenon....

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Categories: olympus, beauty,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When Swift, Bird of Hermes, Its Last Flight Takes
When Swift, "Bird of Hermes", Its Last Flight Takes

When swift "Bird of Hermes" its fast flight takes
path through nether worlds, its tall broken stones
phantom from...

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Categories: olympus, appreciation, art, humanity, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

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