To My Love Part 1 Tbc
...Far from having a nascent thought that envelops my rabid self,
Like inside of an accurate Swiss watch that had been given -
A present to presidents and diplomats from the 70’s era,
Memories in the...
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Categories:
persepolis, life,
Form: Free verse
The Ham Was Off
...After: "Letter of Mithridates to Phraates, King of Parthia"
Historiae VI by Sallust
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I am a man more poisoned against than poisoning.
That’s my version anyhow, an...
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Categories:
persepolis, character, environment, , western,
Form: Blank 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...
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Categories:
persepolis, history,
Form: Rhyme
I Once Awoke
...I once awoke in a
Storm of color
When the Persian sky of
Scheherazade made lovers quiver and
Table milk
Spilled in luxury over your
Perfected fingers.
It was only later
When the sweet scent...
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Categories:
persepolis, lost love, paradise, romance,
Form: Free verse