Medes Poems

Luckily, It Stopped Before Q

...Arbitrary patterns, be it said,
Behove a poet who has nought to say:
Consider if you will, the holy dread
Descending on him when he has to play

Egregious games of lexicon and sense:
Ferocious ...

Categories: medes, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Recent updates Q and A

...Q  Was yesterday, August 3, 2025 considered 'the 9th of Av?' on the Jewish 
     calendar?

A   Yes, it was.

Q  Why is it considered to be 'a national day of mourning for the Jewish people?'

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Categories: medes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Belshazzar's Banquet

...The drinking was getting out of hand,
Using vessels from the Promised Land,
Praising gods that rulers can withstand,
A pagan king gets more than he planned!

"The enemy is outside your wall!...

Categories: medes, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Etched In Stone

...Humanity born on the bone of an earthen mound
froze graphics on cave walls hail their Ice Age strive,
wall carvings speak three trees, a forest be sound,
harsh times craft crept the charge...

Categories: medes, bible, imagery, spoken word,
Form: Quintain (English)

Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

...Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part II
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hrothulf and Hrothgar, uncle and nephew,
for a long time kept a careful peace tog...

Categories: medes, music, peace, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Coming Together

...We have all been given access to unite
To no longer walk in confusion of the night
Sadly, many who claim to be of Jesus church
Still building own ways for their souls search
So much division, hat...

Categories: medes, fate,
Form: Rhyme

The Sixth of Daniel

...*Image of Daniel in the Lion's Den by Peter Paul Reubens.

The Sixth of Daniel

Walketh I, thy path of righteousness, beheld His glory,
Lifted me upon thy pedestal, godsends didst ov...

Categories: medes, bible, blessing, evil, faith,
Form: Free verse

The Bridge At Abydos 2

...VII
There never was an army quite like Xerxes’.
Hyrcanians, Medes, Egyptians, Syrians, Scyths –
soon, Greece would grovel at its tender mercies –
a fate more gruesome than the grimmest myths.
It...

Categories: medes, history,
Form: Rhyme

The Adventures of Enea, Part 6 of 13

...Enea is Pope! (1)
                                 
It doesn’t look good.
There is restiveness around the ‘hood.
Naples is in turmoil, a bastard claiming the throne –
but is he even a bastard?  ...

Categories: medes,
Form: Limerick

Prince of This World

...
Prince of this world,
you've meddled in the affairs of mankind
since the beginning
From the time of the Egyptian pharaohs,
whose gigantic pyramidal tombs
had been built primarily by slave l...

Categories: medes, spiritual, truth, war,
Form: Epic

Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

...31 "You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, i...

Categories: medes, religion,
Form: Narrative