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Constantine I Poems - Poems about Constantine I

Premium MemberUncompromised Understanding

...What falls from my eyes is dry; as crystals of a saltine
Frozen waters, be damned; I find calm in what they mean
Sweetness of their memory; form a perfections praline
Warmth of space, you'...
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Categories: constantine i, deep, devotion, feelings, friend,
Form: Monorhyme

Constantine and the fiery sign

...A solar halo
Sol Invictus blistering 
Or the cross blazing
Burning for roman bloodshed 
Who in truth was Cain scheming 
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Categories: constantine i, fire, light, miracle, sun,
Form: Tanka



Premium MemberLiving Dead

...A vast multitude adorn in dregs purloining, 
Fashionable filth clocked with piety, 
Showmanship on sacred alters, 
Multitude of compromised public orators. 
Fair formalities of professors void of...
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Categories: constantine i, allusion, bereavement, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClerihew Dinos

...Dinos Cristianoopo!us a pen name
gave Constantine Dimitri his fame
With  world wide renown quote
he became a poem of note...
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Categories: constantine i, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Premium MemberPhilistia To Palestine

...Unto all generations comes a time,
  a time to take and to lose.
A time for peace and a time for war -
  time to heal, time to bruise

Loud is the cry of “stolen land”,
  of martyrs and dea...
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Categories: constantine i, bible, history,
Form: Narrative



What We Do To Win, Part I

...I long have been a trail-runner,
and my name is Art Constantine,
sprinting peaks is a thigh-burner,
just as tiring as it seems,
I started this at seventeen.

Most people thought that I was nuts...
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Categories: constantine i, heart, life, meaningful, men,
Form: Narrative

St Helena

...I stayed on this famous island for a little while,
fortress, prison and avant-garde Bonaparte style.
Rigged charm with antiquities slow train,
governors constitution keeping royal patriots vain.
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Categories: constantine i, celebrity,
Form: Ballade

Sundays

...Winter Solstice, Apollo, Sun god, Constantine had a say ...
For the first day of the week: Christian worship day
A strange connection: Sundays and SonDays For Jesus
Until Covid19 shut down half-em...
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Categories: constantine i, allegory, allusion, history, jesus,
Form: Didactic

Ithaca

...As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that ...
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Categories: constantine i, adventure, age, beauty, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOrigin of Christianity

...Origin of Christianity

(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)

It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary were Jewish, both from the tribe of Judah, ...
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Categories: constantine i, bible, christian, faith, history,
Form: Didactic

2020prayer4april

...My Prayer:
JESUS, I give Praise, Thanks, Honor to You
Life is a life of SHALOM with Thee LORD
You are MY Defender, Healer, Master
You know me: I hated You through college
Then I began to teach R...
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Categories: constantine i, 9th grade, allah, blessing,
Form: Prose Poetry

We Did Not Dye In Vain

...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...
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Categories: constantine i, purple,
Form: Verse

Mortimer Adler

...Like emperor Constantine
You were a convert 
to Catholicism on the deathbed.
Fascinated by Thomas Acquinas

and your other heroes:
Etienne Gilson, Jacqes Maritain,
Martin D’Arcy.
You consider...
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Categories: constantine i, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Enoneone

...I’m A “Street Fighter” 
You see the “Wings” CHUN 
LI
“BRUCE WAYNE”
 “LEROY”
“LU”
KAME
“THE LAST DRAGON BREATHS”
You don’t want “NUN”-CHUCK
NORE IS ANY ENTITY
Check my IP MAN
my Impulse 
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Categories: constantine i, art, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse

A Synopsis of Love

...A SYNOPSIS OF LOVE:

Love is not a folklore appreciated only in hindsight
Nor a fairytale told only to children under the moonlight
Love is real but rare as gem, like diamond and amethyst
It is ...
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Categories: constantine i, break up, inspirational love,
Form: Lyric

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