Gaius Julius Caesar
...Gaius Julius Caesar
was not a real people pleaser
he tried to set himself up as a monarch
but never made it past the Ides of March
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Categories:
gaius, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Clam ah go-go
...Manila and Cockles
oh the steamers oh the steamers
Ensis and Razors
Carpet shell clams and Ynghylch
L...
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Categories:
gaius, music,
Form: Ballade
From Pompeii
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He appeared out of nowhere and convinced me to sit with him for a drink.
His eyes were wide and glistening, his brow - of the knowledge within.
I asked him his name and where he had been living...
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Categories:
gaius, death, fate, fear, for
Form: Free verse
They Think It's All Over - It Is Now
...The ‘lionesses’ lost to Spain
Spain’s players are quaffing champagne
I may be unkind
But was the ref’s blind
My reasoning may be insane
I googled the Penso surname
The origin coul...
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Categories:
gaius, conflict, football,
Form: Limerick
Clerihew Catuleus
...Gaius Valerus Catuleus
wrote poetry so illustrious
Subtle&so imaginistic
avant garde words in Latin so slick...
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Categories:
gaius, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Vesuvius Eruption
...Vesuvius Eruption
flumped
feeling
fading
forthcoming
carrying
his
giant
cyclopedia
in hand
snaring
of
day's sun
believing
his soul
hoisting
&
asked
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Categories:
gaius, analogy, history,
Form: Other
Roman Headstone
...IN MEMORY OF CENTURION
GAIUS LUCIUS MANIUS
PRIMUS PILUS FIRST COHORT
LEGIO VI VICTRIX
HE SPENT HIS PENSION
IN CISALPINE GAUL
WHERE HE RAN
AN HONEST BROTHEL
HIS FUNERAL WAS GRACED
BY A MU...
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Categories:
gaius, allegory, death, history, morning,
Form: Elegy
Et Tu Brute
...Agricola……
so started Gaius Caesar’s last assault
a farmer, who we hated by default
for Latin somehow came to rule our world
as meanings of declension slow unfurled
Thus, were we tossed into t...
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Categories:
gaius, funny, high school, language,
Form: Rhyme
Good Health
...G-ood health of the humankind
A-voids the lethal link;
I-solating the ferocious flu,
U-ntil the dirt and grime
S-ink.
V-irus spares the man of good health,
A-ttacking the vulnerablebody;
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Categories:
gaius, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Caesar-Cleopatra
...She, Queen of Egypt, he, Ceasar of Rome,
Together, their lands united a sea,
Their fusion less capitol, more a home,
A son born to them, though rule, not to be,
Yet, her debut in R...
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Categories:
gaius, allegory, character, death, fate,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Emperor Gaius Tommaso
...Hail the Emperor Gauis Tommaso
In his gold chariot with a white horse
Popular with Romans who loved him so
For bringing in lax laws he did enforce.
He freed all the slaves and ended ...
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Categories:
gaius, humorous,
Form: Sonnet
Aurelivs Livia Druslla
...to due to reframe
to speak the latter first
than which is spoken
sung and rehearsed
than which of most
to be discovered
the God of many
is the God of others
Those worlds of the selfish
to...
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Categories:
gaius, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Warlord Wars No More -4
...We've been taught the terror of triumph from where the heart looks...
General Caesar Sir, 9th Recon reports that Pompeius Magnus has fled by sea to Egypt,
also, the body of Captain Crastinus has be...
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Categories:
gaius, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Riot Vibrantly Painted
...Set the scene
strike the slate
a plague befalls Rome this day
like the Gods bless the clouds to spew rain from its jaws
A hurricane of envy washes the city streets
already filthy with the foul s...
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Categories:
gaius, adventure, betrayal, business, character,
Form: Narrative
March In Rome
...Roman dignity, what has happened to it all?
This month of March has been something to appall.
I cannot believe our esteemed senators
could possibly become murderous conspirators.
The body of our ...
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Categories:
gaius, historybody,
Form: Rhyme
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