Best Spartans Poems

To Commemorate My 300th Poem Here On The Soup

300 Solomons
300 Beacons
300 Spartans
300 Martyrs

300 Tales Done
300 Threads Spun
300 Heartsongs
300 Touchstones

300 Scheherazade
Only 700 More, GOD
and Wherever YOU Beam Me
10,000 More, Gleam Me

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… I Have Lost 200 Poems
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What the Spartans of
each country need is
their own legendary
hero Leonidas.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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Spartans trained their children for war,
They practiced all day until they were worn,
Their typical meal was black broth and pork,
It gave them energy for the dangerous war.
Spartan girls were trained for sports,
The ephors, made laws that were enforced,
Spartan women were freer than others,
And were trained...

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The hammer rises
The sickle moves to mow down…
Ukraine Europe’s shield
The USSR reborn
Never did disintegrate.

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Spartans courageous men standing, 
Shoulder to shoulder on the battlefield. 
Immortal warriors of the past 
With King Leonidas by their side 
A hero born for this day.
As proclaimed by the gods. 
With their shields burning fiercely with flames of fire. 
Reaching out to embrace the...

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The spartans are up to uphill the hill.
The spartans do not retreat nor surrender.
The ability to unveiled the veiled.
The power to over see the unseen.
Yes am a spartan.
A spartan of my life.
A spartan to the end of time.
Yes am a spartan.
Am a top notch spartan.
A...

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Ancient tales slashed our vineyard, 
We were the bloodshed of love...
Cupid fleshed our hearts. 

Austere eyesights.
Fierce catch upon your mark,
Am your prey in the love arena... 

I escort this frugal lover.
His achillean personality enchants every man,
I am the residue of my manhood... 

Close the cishet...

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In Sparta, we take care of our own.

We will die before we are done.

Shields to bash, spears to gash,
from hell to oblivion.

We fight for Peloponnesia and the Polis 
with blood and phalanx, 
till the battle is won.

The women are warriors 
who also bear us daughters...

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