ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE boy
i knew no wisdom
i knew no hate
i knew no lies
WHEN I GREW UP
i understood history
i understood love
i understood truth
NOW AS I AM DYING
i know a lot will change
i know the world will be busy
i know my appointments are unanswered
POST-LIVE REVELATION
How so many live for the sake of beauty
How so many
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Categories:
grecian, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ode Against a Grecian Urn
If all you need to ask, "Is beauty truth?"
It isn't much you need to know on earth.
It's less than what appraisers say it's worth,
This jar with frieze depicting frozen youth.
Curators and collectors both agree
If forged or stolen, sold dishonestly
Museum art debased on pedestals
Makes hiding art seem safely tenable.
It may be better beauty be destroyed.
A little
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Categories:
grecian, beauty,
Form: Sonnet
Grecian Tears
the roaring tides rolled in anger
sat beside me nothing else as I
began to slowly slip into my self
consciousness consoling my inner
most thoughts catering to a rather
chafe metaphor beseeching counsel
embracing righteousness anxiously
covenanting bitterness wildly tamed
emotions creating solitude a vague
rapture mastered my minds eye
withering madness sunk into a sultry
need
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Categories:
grecian, beach, beautiful, how i
Form: Classicism
Grecian 16
Owed to a Grecian Formula,
Though secretive and unbetrayed,
Scarce noticed, by gradations wane:
Auld sylvan strands, fine argent grey.
Rich chestnut hues, slow, unannounced,
Emerge discreet midst ashen roots,
As grizzled mantle transforms brown,
Like autumn leaves or wooded shoots.
And though ’tis pittance sacrificed
To dab small bits at break of day,
Alas, amended means, I yearn:
An aerosol, fine misting spray.
’Tis sweet
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Categories:
grecian, age, humorous,
Form: Ekphrasis
An Artistic Endeavour
Draped in gossamer she holds her pose
perfume surrounds simple musk rose
Artist works on colour palette
Striving for tone of light brunette.
Attic is high with wonderful light
Grecian column painted optic white
Spray of green foliage on ancient cobble
Painted with precision brush does not wobble.
Distant cypress against indigo sky
Canvas holds image that will never die
It hangs in gallery forever
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Categories:
grecian, imagination,
Form: Couplet
My Grecian Holiday
I gaze in awe at this beautiful setting;
The Greek isle of Samos I won’t soon be forgetting.
The sun shines bright in the azure blue sky
while white puffy clouds slowly drift by.
The calm Aegean Sea is an aqua blue;
the colorful fishing boats, they number two.
The houses on the hillside with terra-cotta colored roofs;
Off in the distance
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Categories:
grecian, dream, travel,
Form: Rhyme
To Homerus, the Grecian Master
(for: Homer, the Greek Master)
Now, do you sit on these Grecian rubbles,
O, desert god of old Greek ruins!
Didst thou across this earth match
O, Homerus! the gods’ bright eye,
On whom many a mad mortal dares to spit?
Nature is joyed of your simple lute
Isn’t that good which you spoke?
Those gods in human passions,
Tho’ matching superhumanly,
Did breed real
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Categories:
grecian, nostalgia
Form: I do not know?
Grecian Grease
laced with a goldensilver fleece,
lamented laboured listlessly luxurious
augmented segmented and critically curious...
I'd save penchant face
for solving this human's race
only to relieve said diatribe
and give you my release...
A liquid aquarian
the 'good samaritan',
an ardorous cantamorous belafusal
misconstrusial home run
Stan Musial
a San Frisco night
the ferry boat turns out its light
settles for canned heattunafish
while running with tao -
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Categories:
grecian, hope
Form: Rhyme