Long Crete Poems
Long Crete Poems. Below are the most popular long Crete by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Crete poems by poem length and keyword.
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:
crete, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto XivBecause the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.
Then we finally reached where had to leap
From the second turn to third, and...
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Categories:
crete, fantasy, , cute,
Form:
Terza Rima
Divine Comedy Translation Canto XiiWas the place where we climbing down the bank
Then arrived, alpine and, for what was there
Such as, that any eyesight would be shrank.
Similar to landslide that in side bare
Before Trento the Adige just smote,
Or for...
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Categories:
crete, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
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:
crete, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Dual HeritageI am a descendant of Greece and the
Greeks,
We say hello and goodbye by kissing
Both cheeks,
But I also descend from the British,
For my father was very, very English!
I am a true mix of English
And Greek,
And...
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Categories:
crete, life, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
crete, allusion, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Sappho Translation: ErosSAPPHO TRANSLATIONS
Eros harrows my heart:
wild winds whipping desolate mountains,
uprooting oaks.
—Sappho, fragment 42, translation by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
No droning bee,
nor even the bearer of honey
for me!
Sappho, fragment 113
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
crete, desire, longing, love, lust, passion,
Form:
Epigram
Where Art SisyphusTis quite a beast of burden to bear atlas (shrug off not allowed)
Atlas shrugged an impossibility
tantamount to skinny dipping in the lock nest lagoon
Tantamount to shrugging Atlas off mine bony,
ill suited,...
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Categories:
crete, absence, allegory, anxiety, deep, faith, fate, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Ah-WhoreteaseHE SPOKE OF HER AS A GODESS
THEY MARVELED AT HER WAYS OF
KEEPING HIM AT BAY: IT'S SAID SHE
ONCE TOUCHED THE WATERS OF
A CREEK IN CRETE AND THE
WATER FROZE AT HER COMAND !
HE STOOD IN THE...
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Categories:
crete, betrayal, corruption, desire, film, magic, music, myth,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
To Athena Part 2To the muses of today; my praise unto thee; my old songs still alive; works now
found everywhere; free unto any and all that are willing to read my words; it is for
humanity itself...
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Categories:
crete, philosophy, political, me, lost, life, lost, may,
Form:
Epic
Words On the Sand-Part 3WORDS ON THE SAND (Part 3)
Not distant a young girl watching silent
On her wheelchair. No writing from a limited body
The sand waiting from her what in life is more salient
After she saw the old man,...
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Categories:
crete, hope,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Good Luck CharmA story I read about war and good luck charms…..
The Good luck charm
Standing on the dock in front of the troop ship
His mother hugged him and fussed about Straightening his hat and brushing his...
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Categories:
crete, remembrance day, war,
Form:
Epic
MenelausEyes, in such a way, that some strange virture, some everlasting release
Was imparted to he. A strange bargain indeed; to resist the gods and to please
Satan in his rebellioin from all that was natural, yet...
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Categories:
crete, angel, anger, aubade, bird, chocolate, christian, cousin,
Form:
Ekphrasis
In the Fall of 1803In the fall of 1803,
The good ship, “The Queen Ann’s Knees”
Sailed out on the bounding seas.
Out of sight of the land
The captain looked grand
As with little ado
He spoke to his crew:
“Men, I’ve nothing to hide!
You...
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Categories:
crete, humorous, silly,
Form:
Epic
Elite StreetIt’s great to be a member of the global elite,
The bean poles in my garden are standing proud and neat.
Organic veg is thriving thanks to ample bags of peat.
I...
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Categories:
crete, class, holiday, international, power, pride, society, vanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Minotaur: Part 2Cont'd from Minotaur: Part I
When Theseus arrived in Crete,
he met a lovely maid.
She knew what death awaited him
and hurried to his aid.
She slipped a spool of silky thread
into his hands and said:
"Use this to leave...
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Categories:
crete, myth, mythology,
Form:
Rhyme
Icarus Ignited Am Ithey warned me
against extremes
intensity must not be indulged
"Flying in between
is your safety scene
not too high
not too low
don't look too longingly below
don't fly too close
to the sea of his splendor
the blue green of his eyes
hypnotize, mesmerize
desire...
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Categories:
crete, analogy, mythology, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
The Circe Effect - Part 1
"The Circe Effect" (Part 1)
Circe, Goddess of magic, nymph, witch, bold enchantress
daughter of Helios, Sun God, her father, can you imagine? ...
let me paint you further, the tree of this wacked-out family canvas -
daughter...
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Categories:
crete, adventure, betrayal, mythology, symbolism, women,
Form:
Free verse
Neroli Aldehyde Osmanthusshe sought love and romance
he wished for things less complicated
she wished it was as romantic as
love would allow a relationship to be
her confideince lacked understanding
she wanted, and needed the same
as he did: yet their path...
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Categories:
crete, appreciation, art, character, clothes, encouraging, hip hop,
Form:
Ballad
DaedalusI, who now sit alone by this barren shore
Looking vainly out to sea as if
I thought I could espy distant Crete,
Have become a source of ridicule
Among these lesser men,
Who strut and title themselves...
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Categories:
crete, myth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Under the Old Red DusterThe Flag of the British Merchant Navy
The Battle of the Atlantic
We’ve heard of the famous Mighty Hood that was sunk by a Bismarck shell
We know how many men were lost and the Skippers name...
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Categories:
crete, warmen, lost, lost, men, ocean,
Form:
I do not know?
History's PlaceCro mag non man was a birth of a nation
Crete led the way for civilized creation
The Etruscans became the first Mediterranean power
Indo Europeans Settled Europe as others cower
The Aryans in India established a civilization
The...
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Categories:
crete, history,
Form:
Lyric
Rocky Mountain Oysters Over MeatballsSo you are choosing Rocky Mountain Oysters over Meatballs
You love to eat them from a zip loc bag at the mall
You grew up in the deep south eating these odd things
For instance, you choose...
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Categories:
crete, food, funny,
Form:
ABC
Who Am IWho am I?
I’m a mother, daughter, wife, and friend,
I’m a workmate, although sometimes have to pretend
To be happy, smile, have fun
At times I just want to hide, maybe run
From people, work, situations,
I don’t...
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Categories:
crete, deep, emotions, family, life, meaningful, self,
Form:
Lyric
23 Stones Part 1Author's suggestion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jALL1_KdN8 - as you read
Don't forget to continue to "23 Stones Part 2"
I built this path, I laid these...
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Categories:
crete, lost loveautumn, halloween, love, new year,
Form:
Rhyme