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Byzantium Poems - Poems about Byzantium


Byzantium

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 prepared
will show no mercy but absorb the world in its inner core
where we can burn forever.
August is tired too, he the General gave
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Categories: byzantium, betrayal, birthday, care, columbus
Form: Blank verse

Byzantium

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 but in the eyes of his general 
  He senses a mounting revolt
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Categories: byzantium, autumn, basketball, best friend,
Form: Blank verse



Headed For Byzantium

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.
Ahoy! Wife of a wandering man
Cutting across dark seas and sorrows:
The winds whisper tales of my desire
While you wrestle phantoms in a lost empire.
With ancient chants and
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Categories: byzantium, beauty, change, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Onward To Byzantium

Onward to Byzantium
One stone
One
Thought
Mayan time
Circle
Of
Stone
Mound
Of
Sand
Return
As
Is
Pure
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Categories: byzantium, allegory
Form: Epic

Byzantium —2

Long night will start the pincer movement;
pyrexia is rising.
Something like an extraterrestrial hand
digs deep in the mind to open the tomb
to unravel the tragedy of nuts and bolts
which could not fix
the mutation of the hour of death.

Dark blinking lashes of soul
measures the cliffs of silence
and then pours the hot red 
vermilion in parted wisdom of
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Categories: byzantium, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?




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