Short Greek Poems

Short Greek Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Greek by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Greek by length and keyword.


Premium Member I X O Y Z

The
sign
of love,
an ichthys*



* Jesus,Christ,God's son,Saviour


TITLE Greek letters Gamma,Chi,Phi,Upsilon,Sigma
Form: Fibonacci


Bloody Freak

Creek,
greek,
cheek,
speak,
meek,
seek,
leak,
peak,
peek,
sleek,
reek,
geek,
teak,
do stop now,
you bloody freak.
Form: Rhyme

Lizard

A Greek flag torn
Flailing in the warm winds

From the Orthodox dome
Church bells toll

A roadside lizard pauses
By the bins
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Clerihew Van Eyck

The Belgian artist Jan van Eyck
in Latin&Greek learned to write
but in his art we now mostly see
meticulous detail as his u. s. p
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member X Is For X O Y Z

TITLE Greek letters Gamma,Chi,Phi,Upsilon,Sigma

I X O Y Z
The
sign
of love,
an ichthys*



* Jesus,Christ,God's son,Saviour
Form: Epigram


Its All Greek

For people dying from cancer
Doctors do not have an answer
But Hippocrates said,
"If you'd rather be dead,
Become a table-top dancer!"
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Genesis

Greek = origin, beginning
The first book of the bible which describes
Among other things
The creation of the world and of man

11302011
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Frogs

Tiny, little frogs
Bre-te-te-tex-co-ax-ax
Sing their call for love.

(The sound of frogs is taken and adapted from an ancient greek poem)
Form: Haiku

Premium Member I Will Work Magic

I will be a thaumaturgist next.
Using ancient Greek and Roman’s sect.
Working wonders.
With no blunders.
I will become a magical prefect.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member It's a wonderful wife

My wife can three languages speak
Her Italian has a mystique
With English hooray
She has a cachet!
Though her Crochet texts mimic Greek
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Canon

Greek = measuring God, rule, norm
The authoritative collection of 
Sacred scriptures in 
The Old and New Testament of the bible

11302011
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Heh-Lay-Na

Trojan Abduction Borne in Greek legend she is Sparta's King declares http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/history-3.php
Form: Senryu

King George

There once was a Greek so to Speak
A weird kind of dominate freak!
He yaps and complains
Then argues in vain  
Til Boring's his middle name!
© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.

The Mean

Victorian art is quite clean 
Though Roman and Greek are obscene
The Queen did not care
That David was bare
But he was quite shy of the mean!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Mediterranean Moment




Mediterranean Moment


lunch, repast chosen
Greek salad, bread and feta
my day, now gleaming


August 3,2020
2:30pm PST


Form: Senryu

Premium Member Z Is Or Zodhiates Tribute

An evangelist was Spiros Zodhiates
defining biblical koine with ease
Authoring the 'Hebrew-Greek' key-word
the Good News to be both spoken&heard
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Uncials

X

P

we see
and proclaim,
when chi-rho we know



x p the Christian monogram made up of the first  2 letters in the Greek word for Christ
Form: Fibonacci

Premium Member CLERIHEW - PEIRAIKOS

Ancient Greek artist Peiraikos
for topics was not at a loss
He painted the common &ordinary
so was nicknamed the 'rhyparography'*

* still life
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Greek Universe Concerns

Fire is hot.
Is it not?

Earth is too dirty
for one so purty.

In water, I'd sink,
I think...

and what about the air?
Is it really there?
Form: Rhyme

Crossfire

crossfire 
©Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty
10/31/2014



Caught in the crossfire 
He bought a Greek lyre ( we must admire)
He harped on and on–a liar
Form:

boustrophedonic

“boustrophedonic”


a cow plows across the page and
speech does as pausing without
never stops except to catch its
me to Greek that’s but breath

Premium Member AN Anacreon CLERIHEW

Anacreon the  greek born circa 580 BC
loved to pen erotic  poetry
alternating long&short in syllabic metric
lyrically untranslatable from the ionic
Form: Clerihew

Its All Greek To Me

A serpent saved Eve from a drouth
Medusa just opened her mouth
But snakes in her hair
How did they get their?
The Devil don't know North from South?
Form: Limerick

Tithonus

An ancient Greek named Tithonus
Got Aurora, his wife and a goddess,
   To ask Zeus a favor,
   That he live forever,
But forgot to add, also ageless.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Bishop

Greek- episkopein
Supervisor
Leader of a diocese (Local Church)
Under the leadership of the Pope
Has a share in the responsibility for the Universal Church

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