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Josephus Poems - Poems about Josephus


Premium Member Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend, does infinity not unsettle your reason, or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless? Look beyond the rust of your disbelief— this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im......

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Categories: josephus, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Babel
...[REVISED 2024 April 04] Shinar, some know as Mesopotamia, others as Assyria, near the Euphrates River, a midday sun cast doubts of a weakened shade made idle by the pause of its agi......

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Categories: josephus, allusion, analogy, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Narrative



Exits Exist
... "Exits Exist" prophecies materialised bad dreams of tomorrow arrived vaporising today the higher ones prepared their exit plans they thought they were gods but......

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Categories: josephus, humanity, peace, religious, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Sunflowers
... “Sunflowers” She planted the seeds in their minds that perhaps something of beauty could come from the bad time could grow there in their dead pockets spreadin......

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Categories: josephus, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
My Faint Ray of Sun
...Like the faint ray of sun on an autumn day, Thou alluring Josephus, bring all my warmth. Trestles on trees crunch while the birds play; And all the stars sparkle as if it was the fourth. ......

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Categories: josephus, beauty, desire, feelings, for
Form: Roundel



An Episcopalian Who Became An Australian
...ead of Reverend should it be Father. That is what everyone else is called. Uncanny Priest Depiction Picture Contest This should be your first Church Poetry Contest. Write a poem that depicts w......

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Categories: josephus, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Hanukkah
...Hanukkah By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd The Hanukkah candles remind us of the story, How one day’s Holy oil stretched into seven days of Gl......

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Categories: josephus, jewish,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Give Me Back My Name
...tell them i’m gone tell them i’m gone to change my name give them any name i’ll not give them another name tell them i’ll not take my father’s name no more father than i’m my own i do not create i’m......

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Categories: josephus, allegory, change,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Alexandria
...Long before Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians and Greeks, Before Hammurabi, Sargon and Ramses ruled The world below their feet; Before biblical scenes and mythological dreams Of magical carpet ride......

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Categories: josephus, history, world, sea, city,
Form: Rhyme
The Cross of Our Savior
...An aged cedar's fallen trunk was taken from a remote, quite grove by a stone wall, and brought to Jerusalem to build the wooden cross on which Christ was crucified, ......

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Categories: josephus, history, hope, love, peace,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things