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Leonidas Poems - Poems about Leonidas

Lacking Substance
...er Infectious Diseases: Anthrax. Foot-and-mouth disease. Leptospirosis. Salmonellosis. Rabies. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) ("Mad Cow Disease"): Screwworm. Bovine leukemia virus......

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Categories: leonidas, character, farm, music,
Form: Ballade
Thermopylae
...Bold King Leonidas and his band of brave men, Marched forth to meet their fate at Thermopylae's glen. The Persian army, vast and fierce, Hailed arrows down with deadly pierce. But Leonidas stoo......

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Categories: leonidas, courage, history, inspiration, literature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tempering Their Souls Into Cold Steel
...Spartan's courageous men standing, Shoulder to shoulder on the battlefield. Immortal warriors of the past With King Leonidas by their side A hero born for this day. As proclaimed by the gods. W......

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Categories: leonidas, courage, culture, freedom, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......

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Categories: leonidas, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Spartans Immortal Warriors
...Spartans courageous men standing, Shoulder to shoulder on the battlefield. Immortal warriors of the past With King Leonidas by their side A hero born for this day. As proclaimed by the gods.......

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Categories: leonidas, community, conflict, cry, death,
Form: Free verse



Childless
...Epigrams/Epitaphs Childless by Michael R. Burch How can she bear her grief? Mightier than Atlas, she shoulders the weight of one fallen star. *** Laughter’s Cry by Michael R. Burch ......

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Categories: leonidas, child, death, eulogy, funeral,
Form: Epigram
Epitaphs
...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. Autumn Conundrum by Michael R. Burch It's n......

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Categories: leonidas, bereavement, death, death of
Form: Epitaph
Leonidas of Tarentum Translation
...Blame not the gale, or the inhospitable sea-gulf, or friends’ tardiness, mariner! Just man’s foolhardiness. —Leonidas of Tarentum, translation by Michael R. Burch......

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Categories: leonidas, eulogy,
Form: Epitaph
Athenian Epitaphs
...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......

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Categories: leonidas, death, eulogy, funeral, grave,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Battle of Thermopylae - a Spartan Death Wish - 480 Bc
...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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Categories: leonidas, august, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
...Swept up into piles; everywhere Abouts; in collected heaps all Around. It is almost as if the drab Streets were strewn with the Precious wealth of King Solomon's Gold! ......

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Categories: leonidas, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Improbable Season
...He might as well be Xerxes The most dominant in history Towering twelve feet taller than his foes The Spartans take position But one of them is missing Where Leonidas is it seems nobody knows ......

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Categories: leonidas, baseball, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chocolate Indulgences
...Chocolate Indulgences (20150129) If I really had no choice but to divulge, In mountains of chocolate I would indulge. I'm not just taking about Snickers, Reese's peanut butter cups, Butterfing......

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Categories: leonidas, candy, humorous, love hurts,
Form: Couplet
The Irony of the Red Smiling Cyclops
...It appeared on the doorpost as a Cyclops' smiley face For some Cyclops WhatsApp icon, but red-themed application Yes gruesome red, in contrast to the expectation You would get from a smiley fac......

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Categories: leonidas, bereavement, christian, hate, islamic,
Form: Blank verse
On What the Spartans Need
...What the Spartans of each country need is their own legendary hero Leonidas. Volodymyr Knyr 2014......

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Categories: leonidas, courage, hero, men, patriotic,
Form: Couplet

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