Greeks Poems - Poems about Greeks

The Mesopotamians, The birthplace of writing, building the ziggurats and palaces. The Greeks, Warriors and philosophers, diverse in their ways of thinking. The Romans, Masters of conquests and destruction. The Egyptians, With creative minds and architectural prowess. All are different and diverse. But they still all believe that they are the one. They believe that they are the protagonists of our world. Portraying their stories...

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Of Homer, Iliad And The Fall Of The Mighty Greeks As the moon repents from its many vague allusions And the splintered rains never rain upon true imaginations What are we to think of those fools, plastic imitations Does bright dew and turnips spring from revolutionary actions He toys with unrepentant love and celebrated crisis Begs the grey-cast dawn to organize...

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Of The Greeks, Olympus, Blindness Of Modern Man And the modern Gods laugh poisoning wells While their blinded throngs hide under sad stones From the deepest pits come magical spells To birth new sins from which we must atone Blackness, its powers hold billions as slaves As this world races towards its near doom Freed from old chains by sleeping...

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When grapes ripen and flow down barrels, drunk ancient Greeks abandon morals, roar accosts their ears from distant cave, ushers season of feasting and rave! With every roar spreads odour of wine, with it fear! he is coming to dine!!! wander not far, nor be lured by smell, when he comes to hunt... no one can tell! When in the deep forest all...

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PRELUDE There has always been animosity between Greece and Turkey as far back in history as we wish to go. Greece was occupied by the Turks during the Middle-Ages for almost 500 years. My ancestors from my Mother’s side were Greek. They lived in Smyrna and Constantinople in Turkey, there were in fact more Greeks...

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The young, man and women, their bodies battled scarred, of those who lived to tell the tale, did not seek glory. Hearts that knew not they fought in vain for the hungry, those who fought their enemies bravely, often to the end. They still wake in the night to imagined gunfire, the dead and wounded lay on their bedroom floor. Uniforms...

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Ahh, as you seat there under the twilight of the night, who would have known you were my destiny. For now, you are the means of me beneath Orion, Earth, and sea. The sages of Rome and the Gods of the Greeks; Athena, Heroine of Venus pay homage to the love shared between us. All...

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THE AMAZON MEETS THE GREEKS When life was thick with possibility, Before the written word and the weighing scales, Your definitions held too much probity In the rich seamless embroidery of our tales. Our vanished mystery, which your history sealed Up in the libraries of the planet’s scar. So what way to better wield a shield? You men just skirt the theory of...

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I think the French and Greek have the most beautiful expression for the word "wife" in their languages: Ma Femme (French) and Gynaika Mou (Greek), which when translated to English resonate with a cave man ring…yea….MY WOMAN!!!! MY WOMAN.....Can you hear Tarzan bellowing that Ahaahhhhh...AHA AHHHHAAAA. OOOOHHHHH!!!! I simply ADORE these expressions...I LOVE THESE TWO...

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