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Pliny Poems - Poems about Pliny


Premium Member Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend, does infinity not unsettle your reason, or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless? Look beyond the rust of your disbelief— this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im......

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Categories: pliny, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
Elephants and the Splendorous Moon
...Bringing branches with their trunks, they start their festival with glee Swinging silent bells at the pearl sailing in the night sky Flinging away darkness and dirt, for light to finally see Singi......

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Categories: pliny, animal, celebration, jesus, light,
Form: Lento



Over and Under
... Melanin lamentation It appears to be the color of dread Locked in is a private penal profiteering feeling Black site has a plantation clandestine skin Making abolition voices invisibl......

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Categories: pliny, allegory, fate, imagery, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Rivalry's Children
...It was the time when art was king, Of artists whose praises we all sing. Great minds there were in the Renaissance, Through eons , unsurpassed, with little advance. Greatness was embodied in t......

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Categories: pliny, art, history, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
The Philosopher's Lament - 2
...[Continued from Part 1] “And the efforts of the Senate to extinguish all this fury Were frustrated by convictions that their god would promptly hurry To reward and praise the burning of the book......

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Categories: pliny, conflict, history,
Form: Rhyme



My Swan Song
...Has the Golden Girl sung her final song? As the mute swan was said to have all along The mute swan never sings or sounds even as a tucket* Except apparently when it finally kicks the bucket Am I Cas......

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Categories: pliny, funny,
Form: Quatrain
House of the Tragic Poet
...Two thousand years, a tragedy is past Yet it's history still leaves us aghast. On a night, dreadfully dark A volcano erupted, leaving it's historical mark Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD The first......

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Categories: pliny, city, house,
Form: Couplet

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