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Carthage Poems - Poems about Carthage

Ravine Real

...Ravine, art thou real?
You certainly look deep.
Thunder, o'er volcano peal!
Through the boneyard creep!

Hope, just take the night off.
O prisoner, take heed:
First you squat and then you coug...
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Categories: carthage, absence,
Form: Rhyme

Queen Quite

...O kabab merchant, thy skewer!
Fresh fish on the line!
And, moreover, in a blur -
Life, be unrefined!

Tangled are the strands of Fate?
Causality, roam!
Make a meal of small, ye great?
Lie dow...
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Categories: carthage, adventure, allegory,
Form: Rhyme



Gold, Golem?

...Soon, O toil? Take, tamarisk?
Athlete, hurl disc!
Flickering fog in fine-kept frisk!
Blessings in the brisk!

Amiable heaven, hell:
What to do about?
Blood congeal and ichor gel!
Set fire to ...
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Categories: carthage, beach,
Form: Rhyme

Praise To Aeneis Elyesa

...Praise to Aeneis ( Elyesa ) 

It was a power without measure, very humble!
She had fallen into the Lot lake.
Dried salts with the speed of the wind.
A sharp Carthage.
He was naked with the whol...
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Categories: carthage, fantasy, war,
Form: Free verse

Pomegranate Kaleidoscope

...PUNICA GRANATUM


So you had a bad day?

Think Pomegranate; the inside universe ...
that inspired grenades, etymology, history, Jewish numerical blunders ... Roman blunders into Carthage again....
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Categories: carthage, appreciation, creation, fruit, jesus,
Form: Prose Poetry



Punica Granatum, Not So Fast

...PUNICA GRANATUM

Yes, in Paradise, Adam and Eve ate pomegranate
No, to apple-etymology - No, to The French "Grenade"
No, more or less 613 seeds (sorry Pharisees and thy 613 Law)
Yes, Malum Grana...
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Categories: carthage, appreciation, beauty, god, nature,
Form: Clerihew

My First Poem

...as i sit and vegitate
watching our minds disenigrate
we pretend we are there,while we are not
slowly watching each other rot
as we look to reality 
we turn around what do we see
if satan ever t...
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Categories: carthage, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Warlord Wars No More -1

...Clemency is a quality that I never understood
until after I crucified the Cilician pirates on Pergamus,
amusing isn't it, that I see mercy where brutality stood,
Death has a heartbeat for all of u...
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Categories: carthage, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

The Ham Was Off

...After: "Letter of Mithridates to Phraates, King of Parthia"
Historiae VI by Sallust 
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I am a man more poisoned against than poisoning.
 That’s my version anyhow, an...
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Categories: carthage, character, environment, , western,
Form: Blank verse

Aphrodite As An Anthropomorphic Map

...The goddess we call Aphrodite
Is not just an old Grecian deity.
  The Phoenicians did make
  Her a map. It's not fake.
Her body is cartograffiti.

The Punic war destroyed her face, 1
The Roman...
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Categories: carthage, africa, body, imagery, language,
Form: Limerick

Your Worst Nightmare

...any superstitious peasants 
out there tonight
TV junkies gossipy groupies
smooth talking saxophonists
am I talking too fast
for couple's therapy
uh oh here comes
another scar on my head
the o...
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Categories: carthage, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Red Dawn Over the New Empire

...RED SUN DAWNING OVER THE NEW EMPIRE
The dawning sun raises bloody red
Over the traffic clogged streets
And noxious polluted air 
Of the capital of Imperial America

The sun with its bloody red ...
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Categories: carthage, america, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Whips of History - 1

...This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education, 
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simpl...
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Categories: carthage, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Backyard

...it may be the other side that vanishes 
first.
 standing in the back yard smoking a 
cigerrette.

 a car passes by first the engine then the 
lights.
 the faint hum of deisel and carbon are 
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Categories: carthage, absence,
Form: Ballad

Sanity

...My cerebral stability is not a sure thing.
I can see myself running naked down an airport runway.
I can hear myself shrieking through padded walls.

For so many people psychological security comes na...
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Categories: carthage, crazy, dark,
Form: Free verse

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