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Carthage Poems - Poems about Carthage

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 Member The 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 ***************************** 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 Member The 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
Hannibal
...Good listener, please lend your ear To share my history Before I take the poison drink, I’ll tell you my story. They’re coming even now to take The city that we love And hope is often lost and so My......

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Categories: carthage, adventure, death, history, hope,
Form: Ballad
Africanus: a Ballad On the Conquests of Scipio Africanus
...From ship we see the foreign shore The lookout’s first to sight The Carthaginians have no clue Of coming Roman might The expedition’s full of men Our forces proud and grand We come to conquer Africa......

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Categories: carthage, history, may, men,
Form: Ballad

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