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Mayflower 2017
The hearts of white men are silently fuming
The spirits of  angry widows steadily   grow bitter 
The bosoms of weeping mothers  open wide
While the relics of the past kept washing upon our...

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Categories: alexander the great, abuse, betrayal, community, conflict, environment, immigration, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member If I Ruled the World
There have been multiple attempts at dictatorial rulership of the world.                        ...

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Categories: alexander the great, leadership, love, world,
Form: Verse
When Will You Say Enough Is Enough
I have seen the fireflies two nights in succession
wandering restlessly in the dark
hundreds of them blinking evocative lights
symbolizes the souls of warriors whose blood 
have drenched  the desiccated earth for a cause 
they believe...

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Categories: alexander the great, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxv Part Two
Unquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen – XXV (Part Two)

Which Asian “King” would crown himself “Emperor” during an elaborate theatrical ceremony while facing and exhorting the ruins of his Illustrious Ancestor’s capital?
Which commoner army captain...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alexander the great, allegory, bullying, child abuse, humanity, people, truth,
Form: Epigram
The Circle In the Sun
It has been there for many centuries before the world began, it has served the Egyptians well and has taken the lion out of the den, the British was in it,  the Puritan have...

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Categories: alexander the great, appreciation, birth, community, confidence, culture, destiny, devotion,
Form: Narrative



Witch Craft Or the Spartan Queen
(To the Spartan Queen) 

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra via
Mi inoltrai in una selva oscura
  
‘They drive horses down this hill’ 
She said, 
‘They take them to drink down there, that pool, there’ 
She...

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Categories: alexander the great, feelings, women,
Form: I do not know?
Thoughts and Quotes
You should only read this
if you’ve nothing better to do.
I’d advise against it,
but, it’s strictly up to you!

It’s all based on things I’ve read or heard.
Some quotes from famous folks.
Some from anonymous writers.
Some from sayings...

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Categories: alexander the great, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Adieu To Unheard Melodies 26
The Boatman’s Song 					26 Last on PS
							Rest would be 
concluded in the book

This story of the Boatman’s Song is taking a break/stop here,
As enough of its Episodes I have already placed,
On this wonderful sight which...

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Categories: alexander the great, life, love, musicsong, life, love, song,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Boatman's Song 19/ Many
The Boatman’s Song                                ...

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Categories: alexander the great, life, love, musicteacher, men, teacher,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member What Is the Picture
What is the Picture ???,

the tapestry that man has weaved,
before and throughout recorded history.
Of what ?, have we been lead to believe ?
For me, it is, it has been an insane mystery !!!,

as rivers of...

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Categories: alexander the great, nature, planet,
Form: Rhyme
West In Our Hearts
That was the worthiest step and decision
our pressing  to US for its airbase in Manas  expelling
from our land. The politic so vexed
so self-destructive  and  depressive
from various points and consequences.

When all our...

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Categories: alexander the great, political,
Form: Elegy
Greatest Figures
Figures of immense reputation and popularity they were
Attracting public attention and admiration in the pursuit of their great works
Leaving behind them a legacy of some kind
But going with them their unique characters.

Wasn’t the explosion of...

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Categories: alexander the great, history, work, history, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Power of Love
Love is one of life's greatest mysteries
It is the driving force
which shapes man's destiny
It is the very foundation 
upon which life itself is built

Love leads 
life follows
Love is a way of life
One cannot detach oneself...

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Categories: alexander the great, conflict, courage, devotion, history, inspiration, love, power,
Form: Free verse
Confidence
Dear guys, is confidence a personality trait?,                       
No it is a skill that...

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Categories: alexander the great, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Narrative
An Ode To Ancient Greece
Oh, ancient Greece, 
How much you have filled my soul.
The aesthetics of your kind, 
Are more than satisfied
By your beautiful eyes.

The epics of grace, 
Odysseus and Helen’s sublime face.
The war between two cities, 
And a...

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Categories: alexander the great, history
Form: I do not know?
How To Avoid the Blob
There is no need for blades of steel.
Now, missiles and bombs do the job.
To warmongers that has appeal.
Man might someday be one big blob.

Yes.  Fighting commenced long ago.
It started with Able and Cain.
Cain killed...

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Categories: alexander the great, history, peace, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Happy Canada Day
I immigrated to Canada from Greece, in nineteen seventy-one
It was the best thing in my life that till that moment I had done

Nothing was easy for me since I did not know anyone, I confess
The...

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Categories: alexander the great, education, life, thanksgiving,
Form: Couplet
Thought
Start

If someone asked me, “A penny for your thought”
I’ll tell him, “Sorry! It can’t be bought”
The thought process runs like a train
Fed by emotions and nurtured by the brain

Said Swami Vivekananda, “Thoughts have made us...

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Categories: alexander the great, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Alexander the Great
Inheriting awful army from his father,
Alexander became his life-script’s author;
Schooled by best of philosophers in history,
Gaining in all arts sky-high mastery;
At the slaughter of his father by an enemy,
In a wedding of the very royal...

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Categories: alexander the great, irony, life, power, strength,
Form: Free verse
Babylon
Words hold the meaning that we assign them
Ever since the fall of the tower .....


Babylon
Ancient land of mysteries solved
and shared
Where collective mind 
cast away the shadow of doubt.

Creative thought 
held siege by the Jealous Gods...

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Categories: alexander the great, history, introspection, life, loss, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Now That We Are Here
Life is an interesting phenomenon
Everyone talks about it. 
But who knows about it completely?
Is it so difficult to be fathomed? 
Having said that it’s not bizarre to comprehend.
All scriptures teach the logics of life.
But the...

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Categories: alexander the great, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Die As If Lived Forever
Life is beautiful
Happiness is state of mind
Spiritual pursuit elevates soul 
Alexander too departed with empty hand

Happiness is state of mind
Emperors too faced gloom’s wrath
Alexander too departed with empty hand
Eventually all is ash 

Emperors too faced...

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Categories: alexander the great, death, lifesenses,
Form: Pantoum
My Brother the Messiah
MY BROTHER; THE MESSIAH

By these dunghills, they stood  
By these morn Mecca, we paid homage
Daily to the papyri gong beaters.
Singing   a litany of   collapses and failings

Of  a  revolutionary...

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Categories: alexander the great, satire,
Form: Blank verse
I Would Like To
i would like to 
be a perfect one to
be a Katherine the Great to 

be     able to 
w  a t ch the screen as i type but i am n...

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© K8 Pterous  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: alexander the great, conflict, confusion, longing, love, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Long Be His Journey To Death
" Long be his journey to death! ", someone hollered
as he dragged his feet into the rising dust hotter than sand;
only a defeated and tormented soul would have admitted
looking ahead," Much innocent blood I have...

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Categories: alexander the great, death, journey, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Reflection on the Important Things