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Minos Poems - Poems about Minos

Premium Member The Lament of Zeus
...Thou, Minos, know I’m weary of all things, Of wars and deaths and cabbages and kings. I wield that battered shield that is the sky, And with my strength protect what ‘neath doth lie: But what whe......

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Categories: minos, angst, death, myth, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Princess Ariadne had an Empathetic Heart
...King Minos of Crete asked Daedalus, the inventor, to create a labyrinth beneath his palace. He housed Minotaur, a fearsome monster in the labyrinth. Minotaur had the head of a bull and body of a ......

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Categories: minos, myth,
Form: Free verse



The Autistic One
...I live in a translucent room with no door It has floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Like a two-way mirror I can see out But nobody can see in I am trapped! My life is like a hut in the middle......

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Categories: minos, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why What Reason Have I
...Often 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: minos, allusion, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Zeus the Philanderer
...A poem based on the Greek pantheon: Zeus The Philanderer Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, Maidens fair he did entwine, By guileful means he won their trust, Bastard offspring born fro......

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Categories: minos, literature, love, lust, mythology,
Form: Verse



Minotaur: Part 2
...Cont'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......

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Categories: minos, myth, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Minotaur: Part 1
...There was a king in ancient Greece, and Minos was his name. His kingdom was an island — Crete. Enormous was his fame. In Athens ruled another king he too — a mighty one. And......

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Categories: minos, myth, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Trails and Trials
...look around you can always find a bread crumb or piece of string some have been compromised suddenly stop when with any food trail come hungry animals including people unknowingly ......

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Categories: minos, muse,
Form: I do not know?
The Decay of the Dwell of Minos
...This is The Dwell of Minos, noble Castle of human wit and learning. Minos, the King of Crete, so renowned for justice, symbol of a noble soul. Here, hidden stands The Temple where The Sixfol......

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Categories: minos, fate, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Light of Reckoning -1
...Oh you will leap, all the losers leap down here!, go beg in the boiling mud the Prince is patient with pain, go taste the bloody scum, go !, move sucka!!! Voooomph,,,,,, feel the paddle blast.......

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Categories: minos, christian, creation,
Form: Epic
Premium Member 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 furthe......

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Categories: minos, adventure, betrayal, mythology, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Meteorite
...Meteorite Comet, fast at last, Here! Hidden from the storm, Fires in the House of Glory, Cards prepared to win. Memphis, Minos, Minus, Just another rhyme, When you drop that dine, Kid......

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Categories: minos, art, character, destiny, emotions,
Form: ABC
Resurrecting Icarus
...Resurrecting Icarus or A Modern Moral Fable by Rick Folker Kansas City, Mo Daedalus claimed the sky, Built a labyrinth from which Theseus could fly ... Minos enraged, entombed the Tre......

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Categories: minos, allegory, death, growth, mythology,
Form: Classicism
Gods
...I am a god Ichor drips from the wounds you left. Like Zeus and Kronos, I will surpass you. I will rule everything you were afraid to. I won’t let the thought of you returning smite me. I sha......

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Categories: minos, faith,
Form: Blank verse
Hekate
...In the shadow of moonlight My cape pulled up around Me tight, standing at the crossroads Under the tree of life, eyes like fire In the night... I call upon the spirit of HEKATE As thunder rolls......

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Categories: minos, earth, moon, wind,
Form: Free verse

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