Byzantium Poems - Poems about Byzantium

...(I) I am the very tip of Byzantium’s jagged lance, the bridge between our forefather's fall and the luminosity of the our sons' golden age (II) I am the Antiochian knight burdened by Meh......Read the rest...

...Byzantium In August, the heat tastes of dust and desperation the despot feels that soon a time will change the power is but in the eyes of the general The sun senses a mounting revolt, is prepa......Read the rest...

...I am the Mozart of my name And I wait for you my Je’amour To paint the parfai’d affair And cross the fur elise of time O vogue of vogues Love is written in visions of glory Even where the vogue......Read the rest...

...Golden Eagle by Martin Braun 2/28/2020 Chants from Grottaferrata echoes “Inveni David servum meum” over Byzantium like a golden eagle soaring on majestic wings. Below lies your ancient heritag......Read the rest...

... Thoughts of a “Mid-Dot : (•)” A couple of centuries back, I was recognized, marked as mid-dot ; all were mesmerized. I was most required for all. I was utilized in literature exten......Read the rest...

...we did not Dye in vain! from “songs of the sea snails” though i’m just a slimy crawler, my lineage is proud: my forebears gave their lives (oh, let the trumps blare loud!) so purple-mantl......Read the rest...

... the gods … awoke early that day for the sun had swallowed the moon and left a ragged, gaping wound in the sky … it bled darkness like cold oil threatening to stain all that they had lab......Read the rest...

...Brief: The Land of Aubergine I search for the land of Aubergine Where the Egg Plant is nurtured and raised Pods of Byzantium Airships Succulence with a Periwinkle glaze 4/7/17......Read the rest...

...Full blooded they appear Speaking with my voice, the words I’d say Those dreams, the dreams of the dead Seem so satisfying, until they talk. We, the phantoms of our fantasies Drift like jet trai......Read the rest...

...We will be the trustees of life's passions... The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering from her savage sins, monuments of luxu......Read the rest...

...Byzantium It is August its heat taste of dust and desperation The despot feels that soon time will change it will Have to share with clouds and cooling wind. For not, it has the power b......Read the rest...

...Headed for Byzantium 1989 With only sun and crawling mist around You set sail for Byzantium, my love, Your cargo was my angry words, your tears, You carried our longing sighs and unspoken fears.......Read the rest...

...That was the worthiest step and decision our pressing to US for its airbase in Manas expelling from our land. The politic so vexed so self-destructive and depressive from various points and c......Read the rest...

...Time merges between these lines, the past And the present meet here on this page - Great minds in contrast Here they are on this great stage. This great poet in a Waste Land resides - To the eye, ......Read the rest...

...Our prison is strong, And made stronger still, By men who work to break the hour, And till, One reaps, and the other sows their will- Here the abyss harvests, All of passions power- To build......Read the rest...