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Heracles Poems - Poems about Heracles

A Tryst With Fantasy
...He's closed the blinds. His twilight dawns. A midday REVERIE. Within his mind, a vision spawns, awash in mystery. * A levee bursts, torrents crash free— a castle from a DREAM. Atop his thro......

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Categories: heracles, childhood, fantasy, imagination, memory,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In Stars Above
... What I see in stars above is extremely wearisome, with useless inane details that I wish I never knew. Light years, space-time, black holes, big bangs, myriads of pricks 'n specks a billion mil......

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Categories: heracles, joy, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Burning Twelve Times Bright
..."When stars align, and you're on track, she's all signs of the Zodiac" ~ the author, after a twelve-pack If in your heart (a paradise) I'd delve, 'twould multiply my love for you by twelve. I......

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Categories: heracles, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Pattern of Stars, one and all
...Like snowflakes, no two stars are alike, despite their myriad declension, to minuscule pin-pricks in sky above. Unlike the sameness of sand-grains scattered willy-nilly on a beach, that no one ......

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Categories: heracles, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Could Write the Perfect Poem
...If I could write the perfect poem I’d write it high above, The stars would be my letters And the first word would be love. Love because it brought me here And has never let me down, Despite......

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Categories: heracles, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: heracles, creation, fantasy, hyperbole, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: heracles,
Form: Rhyme

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