Priam Poems - Poems about Priam

...Most people aren’t blessed with all the zest Of money, power and fame, But live their lives in “quiet desperation,” As Thoreau once famously claimed. As for me I once believed I was headed ......

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...What beauty is (to the geometrist), has the shape of the Golden Ratio. Beauty is courage, the defiant fist of a protector fear can't overthrow. Beauty, also, is Hector's promised......

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...Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage h......

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...Homer translations Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michae......

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...Lucubrations fuels ebullience Unsolicited, revered, and praised potential literary fete, (yes a bit hyperbolic), sans mine posted poems that perambulate such feedback, whither donning trumped ......

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...In ages long ago, when heroes roamed the earth And gods and monsters roamed the land, There was a mighty warrior known throughout the realm As the greatest of them all, a man of might and courage,......

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...Unsolicited, revered, and praised potential literary fete, (yes a bit hyperbolic), sans mine posted poems that perambulate such feedback, whither donning trumped ("FAKE") facade, Oriel sincere ......

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...I was there when old Troy burned, all the babies I dashed and hurled, slayed Hector and Achilles, made Priam scream in agony. I was there at the Fall of Rome, snuffed a light half the world ha......

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...first time I took an an airplane it was dire two propellers flying the sky of stench oozing the land of a deathly earthquake bodies telling the story of unknowns as ten years old couldn't under......

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...Tyrian Sails Across Stormy Seas Sailed Tyrian sails across stormy seas sailed, and a bold prince they deliver At every port cheerily he was hailed, as an arrow straight from its quiver Bade he......

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...(Dedication: For Michael Zachary, my son) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sense this knowing: can the blind see? Homer still sings fond tragedy. Troy was a thought where siege was laid, A w......

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...Your buildings were burned, Your walls they were torn, And just like that Priam's Kingdom was no more. Your damnation was brought on by the lusts of a young man named Paris, For a young woman ......

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...Brutust Iulius Trois Page 07 Brutus called his captains into conference we are done with creeping along the shorelines prepare now to sail out across the Aegean the winds are with us and Troy aw......

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...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06 The defeated Pandrasus spoke out his weary words weighted with wisdom. Linus is as Greek as I am Greek and as a Greek let him inherit the crown, I'll name no other ......

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...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 05 Loud laughed Pandrasus Hear the mice roar yet stubborn Pandrasus swiftly gave chase over the high mountain, through the deep forest so easily he fell to the trap B......

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