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Heracles Poems - Poems about Heracles

Heracles Poems - Examples of all types of poems about heracles to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for heracles.
Zeus the Philanderer
...A poem based on the Greek pantheon: Zeus The Philanderer Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, Maidens fair he did entwine, By guileful means he won their trust, Bastard offspring born fro......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, literature, love, lust, mythology,
Form: Verse



A Love That:
...A love that: Flows so sweet as ambrosia from Hebe’s ladle to the cup of Heracles or nectar saccharine as Apollo’s lyre, carried by doves! to the heavenly feast......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, love,
Form: Free verse
Bewitched
...As his hands presses against my body like they knew all my curves, He reaches out and caresses my body with every touch my body resist, Doesn’t he know the meaning of No? I wish my body would turn......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, anger, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Stains In the Sanctuary
...STAINS IN THE SANCTUARY ® From the obnoxious obscenity To the unorthodox immoralities Personage of the perpetual Pentecostal pimps Poisoned-Chalice in the mouth of a praying prostitute Even th......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, 1st grade, religious,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member For This Is the Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
...For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss (Part One) I've ate Eden's last apple, coveted Jason's* golden fleece chained myself in caverns of darkness, begging no release refused mi......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, creation, fantasy, hyperbole, mythology,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Lament For Lost Youth and Love
...I mourn for the death of my erstwhile youth, a time of innocence and naive bliss which hid from me life's dark, unpleasant truth, but now holds all the pleasures that I miss; a time o......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, age, innocence, longing, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Galaxy and the Logos:
...The word "Galaxy", is derived from the Greek "galaxias", literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy. Galaxies contain varying amounts of star systems, star clusters and types of interstel......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, universe,
Form: Narrative
The Olympics
...Those trademark circular elements of style in vogue every four years When the crème de la crème of the athleticism presents itself on the world stage Suspending and transcending any present day i......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, adventure, america, appreciation, body,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member 1996 Visit To Turkey
... In Nineteen ninety-six, our son and wife, Majors In US Army, moved to Izmir, their new base. As usual, whatever place they were assigned, We flew to visit them as well as dear grandkids. S......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, travel, vacation, , western,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Troy, the Defeat, Odysseus Punishment
...Troy, The Defeat, Odysseus Punishment Apollo, the archer-god, was quite unfair Slew Eurytus for a vain archery boast Mortal lives he had so very little care Sending Greek ships sailing to the c......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, betrayal, conflict, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
When Clouds Upon the Summer Breeze All Rest
...When clouds upon the summer breeze all rest And easeful, take upon their faery flight Into the paling crimson of the west Where noonday dreams wilt in the breath of night, I look into the east, a......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles,
Form: Rhyme
They Had Statues of You In Greece and Rome
...Adonis in obsidian Midnight Heracles My Orpheus, though out of key, You sing the dark right out of me Achilles himself had a weakness; Yours is within your chest: The golden heart that’s beating With......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles,
Form: Rhyme
Leonidas, King
...From Heracles immortal line sprang Kings of Agiad The blood of Gods and heroes in mortal flesh thus clad And such was Leonidas, half brother to the King Cleomenes of Sparta, of whom the poets sing......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, history, inspirational
Form: Epic
Twenty-Nine In One Stroke!*
..."He is brave and a warrior fine-- In a stroke, killed twenty-nine!" Thus went word from town to town, Only to come back around... "A better man there be none, Seekest thou a finer one?" Crept......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, children, funny, imagination, satireme,
Form: Couplet
Ephesus
...A white city here lies – a trace of centuries gone. An old man Heraclitus awoke freely at dawn. At the bank of the sea was a heavenly drop. In the valley at hills became ripened its crop. Great so......Read the rest...
Categories: heracles, history
Form: Rhyme

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