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Praxiteles Poems - Poems about Praxiteles


Ghosts and Dust
...If words were enough,? I'd speak until the sun set on forever,? Etching you into history with each breath—? Every line a tribute to the echo of you. Like Praxiteles chiseling marble,? I'd car......

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Categories: praxiteles, longing, love, memorial, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Statue
...A whisper of his life within the stone emerges from the cold of retrospect, that he behind the figure's vacant stare could know that other hands saw history within the reach his fingers stretched, co......

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Categories: praxiteles, art, life, voice, life,
Form: Free verse



Phryne Ii
...Greece you are waiting for me. With white speechless marbles within the August heat. With sullen and loveless areopagites carving my name on sea-shells. Hypereides, you liar. Praxiteles, oh so blind......

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Categories: praxiteles, art, depression, fantasy, history,
Form: Lyric

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