Long Gaius Poems

We've been taught the terror of triumph from where the heart looks...
General Caesar Sir, 9th Recon reports that Pompeius Magnus has fled by sea to Egypt,
also, the body of Captain Crastinus has been laid on...

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Set the scene
strike the slate
a plague befalls Rome this day
like the Gods bless the clouds to spew rain from its jaws
A hurricane of envy washes the city streets
already filthy with the foul stench of death...

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Manila and Cockles
                         oh the steamers oh the steamers
  ...

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Vesuvius Eruption

flumped
feeling
  fading
     forthcoming
 carrying 
    his 
giant
   cyclopedia
in hand
  snaring
of 
 day's sun

believing 
  his soul 
hoisting
&
asked
don't cry
as
   I feel...

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He appeared out of nowhere and convinced me to sit with him for a drink.
His eyes were wide and glistening, his brow - of the knowledge within.

I asked him his name and where he had...

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I will pave the farthest road,
see my likeness known in marble and gold.
Is it power, is it greatness I pursue?
Yes, it's destined, it makes sense,
that I should come to prominence,
Oh, world, Caesar comes for you!

I...

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Agricola……
so started Gaius Caesar’s last assault
a farmer, who we hated by default
for Latin somehow came to rule our world
as meanings of declension slow unfurled

Thus, were we tossed into the forum’s pit
to grapple with the words...

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Roman dignity, what has happened to it all?
This month of March has been something to appall.
I cannot believe our esteemed senators
could possibly become murderous conspirators.
The body of our beloved Gaius Julius
lies bloodied and mutilated before...

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Hail the Emperor Gauis Tommaso
In his gold chariot with a white horse
Popular with Romans who loved him so
For bringing in lax laws he did enforce.

He freed all the slaves and ended the games
Twelve senator's plotted...

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G-ood health of the humankind
A-voids the lethal link; 
I-solating the ferocious flu, 
U-ntil the dirt and grime
S-ink.

V-irus spares the man of good health, 
A-ttacking the vulnerablebody; 
L-eaving him grasping for breath, 
E-mploying the menace's mystery.
R-emaining...

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to due to reframe
to speak the latter first
than which is spoken
sung and rehearsed
than which of most
to be discovered
the God of many
is the God of others

 Those worlds of the selfish
to then be uncovered
who's works makesth...

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Prae I heard your name once
before the day of names given,
it was slight, dark and even
but fright was not in my eYes.
KnowMen Light does fly and
Prae a time we knew ... there
was more choice then...

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