Doric Poems - Poems about Doric

...I went to the art lecture Because I knew it would Be dark, and I could sit In the back of the room In back of all the backs Of heads staring forward At the slides shuttering by, ......

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...Doric columns supported the xyst with ancestral plane trees and boxwood lining the spaces between and whispering the secrets of ancient polished stone. The promenade led to the gymnasiu......

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...The grand, half-ruined Parthenon, once a sublime, Doric grace, Even now, in broken, stone blocks, always takes my breath away. The rich, classical detail, fluted columns without plinths, to ima......

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...Ode to what’s been lost Discarded Protocols and broken treaties that were of our past what things we’ve lost and might not gain again why no one spoke or took refrain We had come so far......

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...Before a pagan shrine, a witch reveals the gods’ desire And sees a cryptic vision cloaked in her enormous pyre: The blazes have the wit of lightning born of rain and fire And magically filled wi......

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...As Samuel saw vaulted Xanadu of Kublai Khan fame In smoke-filled corridors of sweat-drenched Opium-eaters Did I spy a vision so surreal as to render all my sentient senses to nought And to replace......

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..."*******" and pork pie hats white shirts, black ties sweat stains under their arms, even wetter, the pressed handkerchiefs that wipe faces and necks. Father Abraham looks down upon his children and s......

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...How long I’m standing here on Ortygia? Remain motionless under the hot sun. Looking like a marble kouros with broken hands. I search the wind for the cool breeze of Aegean, the sweet smell of D......

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... I worked for Boeing when I first met Fred Liked him the instant he called me “brain dead” We were both part of the same office mob Both engineers fairly new on the job I was single th......

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...Pythagoras of Samos (580 BC-500BC) : Born in the Greek island of Samos in the Northen Agean Sea , - Off the coast of Asia Minor of modern day Turkey ; It was around late 6th century BC ! He ......

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...They made doric, ionic and corinthian- these pillars of society......

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