Long Athens Poems
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EpitaphsEpitaph 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 not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
athens, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian 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 the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
athens, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
athens, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
The World Is a Small PlaneI have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
athens, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Ill Fated AddressAN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
athens, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Dialogue: Follow No One, Trust Yourself[Characters: Thomas, Jesse, Mark]
In a small town of Athens, Thomas and his disciples served the town well, with their Wisdom and Knowledge, by helping out the less fortunate, feeding the homeless, teachings, and gaining more...
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Categories:
athens, community, freedom, growth, inspirational, peace, social, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
AthensWe’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little...
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Categories:
athens, humor, mom, school, student, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Haman and United We Fall Together We StandIn school it was all about Greek and Latin at a stretch it proposed
...
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Categories:
athens, absence,
Form:
Free verse
The Trip of My Lifethe grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . .
Madrid’s grimy walls
As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in late January. We had left behind us what has been...
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Categories:
athens, travel,
Form:
Haibun
SocratesI am walking Athens with Socrates
And see the world through his eyes
Barefooted with white robe
Tied in a knot with linen rope
I follow him like a shadow
Starring at the faces of Athenians
Who lived ago a...
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Categories:
athens, allusion, cute, death, philosophy, truth, , western,
Form:
Bio
Our Greek GetawayDear friiends those who first read my poem i left an important line out in the donkey story
The first dance after our wedding,
Was absolutely exciting, intoxicating,
My darling whispered in my ear,
My wedding present to you...
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Categories:
athens, beach,
Form:
Narrative
My Ancestors EscapePRELUDE
There has always been animosity between Greece and Turkey as far back in history as we wish to go. Greece was occupied by the Turks during the Middle-Ages for almost 500 years. My...
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Categories:
athens, war,
Form:
Free verse
Oft From a Distant Echo, It Is Heard Fifth Poet In My Dedication Series(1.) Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series
Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard
At the start comes just a solitary word
oft from a distant echo, it is heard.
Imagination steps on into...
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Categories:
athens, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
The WaitressWe came walking blind bends at dusk,
An overhanging fig picked fresh.
No pavements, just a nervous trust
that drivers would skirt our single line.
Hugging the roadside with torches lit,
Phones swung glowing to the ground...
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Categories:
athens, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Why What Reason Have IOften times I wonder if I may have missed
a greater calling or purpose in my life.
As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical
when it came to asking the most important questions:
“Why am I...
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Categories:
athens, allusion, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a TimeI was born on the closing days of
The second World War
In a small village of north-west of Greece
Up on the mountains.
The country was devastated
After four years of occupation by
The Nazis and Fascists and
Then
A...
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Categories:
athens, age, life, nature, technology,
Form:
Bio
The Birth of Democracy1.
Once upon a very long time in the eleventh century B.C.
There was a king in, Athens, who ruled both land and sea
2.
To all was known as king Codrus*, a mighty warrior was he
His enemies...
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Categories:
athens, courage, love, patriotic,
Form:
Couplet
What a Sacrifice SublimeAbout two thousand years ago
In the early morning hours of a cool day
When the wind was calm and the Sun had just
Started showing his sign in east
A small vessel boat standing near the...
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Categories:
athens, inspirationalbooks, boat, books, journey, storm,
Form:
Free verse
The World of CommunicationWhen the first humans walked the earth,
They all huddled in droves,
Hooted and cried to warn of dangers,
Lurking in the mangrove,
Loud voices and echoes, conveyed a return,
Along with a large kill,
A lone unreached tenor, to a...
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Categories:
athens, analogy, appreciation, computer, hero, imagery, science, technology,
Form:
Ballad
Of the Dreaded Scourge Currently Afflicting the Municipality and Environ of My Nativity and YouthThis dread disease that has afflicted my home,
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof
Into something wholly despicable and disgustingly homogeneous,
Yclept "cosmopolitanism," and "worldliness," and "globalization,"...
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Categories:
athens, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger, anxiety, beautiful, betrayal,
Form:
I do not know?
Ancient Greek Philosophy Continued : Heraclitus and ParmenidesHeraclitus :
The world continues to be in a state of flux ,
Where strife (Nekos) and love (Philia) ,
Are the dividing and uniting forces in control ,
To ensure the balance and unity of the whole...
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Categories:
athens, historyschool, world, change, school, universe, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
Few Sensitive Other Callous To a Symbolic Gesture Earth HourFor “EARTH HOUR” we pledged without words rearranging,
Let us try and attempt to stop things from changing
Am doing my bit as promised to myself and me,
wrote a poem on “earth hour”, published it and...
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Categories:
athens, nature, words, nature, beach, green, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Plato Epigram TranslationsPLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS
These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...
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
We left...
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Categories:
athens, death, eulogy, funeral, memorial, memory, remember, tribute,
Form:
Epigram
Under a Shadowy Moonpure and simple
the smile and dimples
the vanity of being wanted
loved and adored,
such admiration might
cause one to be ignored
thus should such behavior
cause others to favor
simply by the looks of the flesh
eyes can lie
and...
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Categories:
athens, adventure, betrayal, conflict, creation, love, music, myth,
Form:
Ballade
Poems' CollectionPOEMS
0F MRS PANAGIOTA CHRISTOPOULOU-ZALONI
Athens-Greece
20160621
It’s time
It’s time of thought.
The Love discovers
Secret paths
And “she’s guided to the dream”.
It’s time of beautiful…
The Love conquers
The summit of Olympus
Emotion plays pleasantly.
It’s the time of union…
The Love gathers...
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Categories:
athens, love,
Form:
Ekphrasis