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Memnon Poems - Poems about Memnon


Premium MemberThere is no Zeus

...I'm well aware the streets aren't paved with gold
yet I still tread upon all forlorn roads,
not wise enough to see what I am told,
expecting much anew at each crossroads.

I long knew that grass...
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Categories: memnon, conflict, destiny, life,
Form: Sonnet

Myths of Stones

...Far into these stones of silences
 soft in the smell of history
from watery chaos to cosmic egg 
whose return to words I am waiting for?

We are delivered by myths
where lay our old fever of lo...
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Categories: memnon, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate

...Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...

after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman...
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Categories: memnon, america, boxing day , celebrity,
Form: Rhyme

Memnon

...Aurora, the beautiful goddess of dawn
Mourned the death of her son now gone.
Memnon, by Achilles's spear, was killed.
His mother’s tears, by the fire, now spilled.
Aurora prayed to Jove in the he...
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Categories: memnon, cry, fire, love, memorial,
Form: Rhyme

Of Love

.........................Plink:plink:pling!...................?ah doo:ah doo: ah Doo!..........
Colossi of Memnon oh ye ah, the size and eminis and emormous importance.........Oh ye Corcovado hill, The...
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Categories: memnon, business, culture, music, myth,
Form: Ballade



Premium MemberMemories of Egypt

...I miss her, Mother Egypt
and those friends I left behind,
timeless history, marvels and mysteries
etched in stone by her own scribes.

Longing for the waters of the nourishing
River Nile and su...
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Categories: memnon, allegory, allusion, christian, islamic,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUniversal Love

...Shine as bright as the daylight sun,
or glow softly like the night moon.
The moon is never jealous of the sun.
She knows why she glows.
As he knows, that she counts the cycles
of his rising and ...
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Categories: memnon, character, good morning, good
Form: Haiku

Brutus Iulius Trois Page 04

...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 04
Venus hastened to answer Aurora 
You still weep for Memnon but where is Memnon's grave?
the squalling Memnonides yearly honor an empty tomb
Immortal Memnon dwells in t...
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Categories: memnon, history,
Form: Epic

Brutus Iulius Trois Page 03

...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 03

Grey eyed Brutus was  truly a Trojan son 
as he attended his father upon a great hunt
Jealous Juno hated this Brutus this Trois 
her anger caused his arrow to slay 
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Categories: memnon, hero, history,
Form: Epic

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