Hoplites Poems - Poems about Hoplites

...Mediterranean Salad As I gaze upon the picture hanging on the wall, of the Parthenon on Mount Olympus of long ago, where history was made and mythology took roots (and phalanx of hoplite......

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...MY DREADLOCKS LOVER Your dreadlocks flutters like streamers Your thick dreadlocks spreads like tethers Your eyes are like coffee mix with white lily My lover, I come from a beautiful place ......

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...Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding, Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads; Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above Vast, resonating, steeply plunging......

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...THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE - A SPARTAN DEATH WISH - 480 BC 300 Spartans or hoplites , the truly heroic The loyal and totally patriotic, Were ordered to f......

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...From Valhalla’s fortress of spears and shields, Valkyrie riders make their daily runs… Crossing Bifrost to Midgard’s battlefields, Harvesting warriors till Ragnorak comes. Flying from Valhal......

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...My mind is euphoric from scenes historic Assyrian chariots innovative wheels bristling Mesopotamian plains Paring the ranks of each, dated infantry formation In Greece, anesthetizing anvil of the Dor......

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...With every page turned I discover traces of myself Behind the tattered covers Of old family diaries In the words of Homer Within the songs of America Amongst the GI’s, Hoplites, and Senators, ......

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...I can hear Thermopylae beckoning me upon my return Leonidas’ voice calls me forward to battle with hardened pride Time’s grains shifting bellowing out the past I have lived And I am of that past......

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