Mesopotamian Poems - Poems about Mesopotamian

...The Mesopotamians, The birthplace of writing, building the ziggurats and palaces. The Greeks, Warriors and philosophers, diverse in their ways of thinking. The Romans, Masters of conquests and ......

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...On site of this forgotten Babylon What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in this annihilated place What strange creature’s kin to inhuman race Dwell deep in antediluvian hells Uncanny th......

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...Museums are quiet except For crackling parquet floors, Wooden squares, a game board: Checkers or maybe chess Of various right angle, grain striations. Parallel to paintings in oil, red lines ......

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...Carved in stone (sonnet to Ishtar) Hail beauty, still as death, in smooth stone hewn, The Great Earth's Queen in regal posture stands, Who in the underworld sings out her tune Of justice, law a......

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...The Love Song Of Shu-Sin loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Darling of my heart, my belovéd, your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey. Darling of my heart, my belovéd,......

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...Terracotta oil lamp, nearly two millennia balanced in the palm of my hand An archaic flashlight for some Mesopotamian householder Hands over centuries transferring it from one owner to the next An......

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...Plow-land vulnerable for plunder, Source of sins, I am your victim; i am a pluries, Plunger, What an onus! Put on my soft shoulders, They forced me to side with one of my offspring, But I refus......

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...Along the memory lane, Walking, Neolithic Mesopotamians! A potter pioneering the first wheel stone, The wooden wheels under the chariots rolling down! The Wheel rolling up and down endorsing circ......

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...My mind is euphoric from scenes historic Assyrian chariots innovative wheels bristling Mesopotamian plains Paring the ranks of each, dated infantry formation In Greece, anesthetizing anvil of the Dor......

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...Lego Cities Square blocked infrastructures formed from a meddling mind engineered and fused together with sticky grape popsicle fingers the Lego Babylon rises with its hanging gardens strewn......

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...Translucent circles drawn around ancient Mesopotamian faces we're told are halos', even though Christian saints had yet to exist and those same spheres now look like astronaut helmets. Hieroglyp......

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...Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, where this time have you gone? there's a war in the desert raging but I don’t hear your voice rising. Look, you know I took you for your word, closely listened to ever......

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