Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Greco- roman his genre crema
Paintings like Hollywood epics
with delightful tricks
Categories:
greco roman, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
When they begin to erect new building in an old town
everything cowers, hunkers down except the ugly.
The ugly is in the concrete even before they pile it up
into office space and loft apartments.
The library and the townhall shrink.
Residents tend to scuttle faster
between the modern high-rise constructions.
The classic frontages, the Greco/Roman facades
once were the pride of a small town
now marble is only used for kitchen-tops.
Mid-West towns are not Manhattan
the sky here is too wide,
history gets brushed away under parking lots.
Nothing fits when the modern gets squeezed
into main street
or when it rubs against the sides
of traditional shop fronts.
Locals are told its progress, but even the ginger cat
who sits in the bay window
of 'Ye Olde' antique and yarn shop
knows better.
Categories:
greco roman, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The These Gems Classic
Twenty Underrated Wrestlers Showcase Talents
Of........
Strength
Endorance
Agility
Greco Roman
Catch as Can
We got weightlifting
Stump pull contest
Greco Roman Challenges
Backflip contest
Tug of War
Your Wife or Girlfriend won't sponge off your
Fame here! Each man
Will be earning points from
Unnamed officials out and about
They won't be recognized until
After the official collection.
Venue Star Trophy will
Be given to the highest
Scoring individual.
He then will be paired
With the manager who
scores same
That individual will
Get a World class
Trophy of Honor
And a World Championship
Opportunity with the
Champion .
The contract states
The Champion of the Thirtist day
Futures from this event is he
who will defend in a championship
role. A disqualifcation,a count out
Or default.
Where the Champion continues to
Hold the championship will
Automatically force a one time
rubber match!
Categories:
greco roman, art, business, cool, culture,
Form: Blank verse
Winter Solstice Heralds Cyber Age
Summer Solstice has the longest day and the shortest night
Winter Solstice has the shortest day and the longest night
Mid Winter Night's Dream is the play that Shakespeare didn't write
On this night the stars, galaxies and nebulas perchance to dream
The Greco-Roman mythical gods descend to Mount Olympus
Let the play begin with Zeus' lightning fireworks, classically recreated
The chorus of frogs comment on the party to end all parties
The sun rises on Olympus heralding the Dawn of the Cybernetic Age
Categories:
greco roman, dream, fantasy, god, heaven,
Form: Narrative
They say the essence of democracy is:
One man, one vote
If this is true,
then American democracy is a joke
Donald John lost by over three million popular votes;
but electoral wizardry trumped the will of the people,
and Hillary’s presidential victory
got a promissory loan default note
Defenders of democracy say
that your one vote
means a lot to Miss Statue of Liberty
But dazed and confused wailing voters,
don’t you know,
a graven idol can’t hear neither see
Voter justice is blind, obviously
One man, one vote
ain’t nothing
but a lot of mirrors and a lot of smoke
Democracy ain’t nothing but
synthetic Greco-Roman dope,
designed to give the people false hope
Take a puff and go voter loco
One man, one vote
ain’t nothing
but slavery dreams full of empty hope
One man, one vote
Keep putting your trust in man,
he’s gonna yank your cattle neck by the rope
One man, one vote ...
The powers-that-be got one thing right,
their selection was a joke!
Categories:
greco roman, perspective, political, truth, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Americanized rugby.....this is football
Americanized football....this is soccer....
Americanized christianity....this is Pentecostal ism
Americanized cricket.....this is baseball
Americanized greek / greco roman wrestling....this is Vince McMahon Inc.
Americanized God save the king/queen....my country this of thee.....
Annuit coeptis nous ordo seclorum
God look favorably upon the new world order.....
REALLY?
with respect to his critics, was not Mr Obama....spot on...when he said America is not a Christian nation....
With the congress and supreme court legalizing what they have in fact legalized in recent decades....
Literary criticism welcome
Categories:
greco roman, bible, blessing, conflict, confusion,
Form: List
AQUILA
Aquila
constellations combinations
permutation patterns her plight
of
water and flight
Eagle
wings soaring powerfully
wind ravages plummeting
her
freedom light
Feather
spiralling slowly lingering
breeze floats cradle embracing
single
winged slight
River
rippling chasing competitions
downward streams drive forward
dreams
floating white
Aquila
unrestrained in naked swim
cooling tranquil Aquarian
finds
Eagles height
And…..
With
Feathered Quill
Water and flight
Write
*(“Aquila” is the Latin and Romance language word for “Eagle” representing the bird carrying “Jupiter’s” thunderbolts in Greco-Roman Mythology—the constellation of Aquarius—)
© Kim van Breda—7 November 2014
Categories:
greco roman, beauty, mythology, sea,
Form: Personification
my mind is all alone
darkness clouds my very thoughts
troubled i am troubled inside and on the outsides
falling apart piece by rotten piece
............. silent musings increase trepidation
why cant theworld sometimes end
and cut usallabreak or three
im just not into moaning but sometimes
it needs to be done
or we are done you are done i is done
yeah i am done
i think i think i am
but am i inverted upon swords of
misery
subverted by sounds of emptiness
submerged in fear and doubt
commotion is all about chaos................
Categories:
greco roman, depression
Form: Blank verse