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 Greek room by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen

I touch you and you touched 
me back we became we 
and we soared the Greek isle

written by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen
Form: Naat


Premium Member The Greek Sun

the greek sun awaits
yet it's your eyes i long for
bluer than the sea



AP: Honorable Mention 2021, Honorable Mention 2021
Form: Senryu

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 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

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


Premium Member Its Greek to me or maybe something else

Immigrantis will poison our blood
Flotillis nonabzorba—a flood
Trumpcissus doth speak
And shall bear this critique
“Thou orate constantinely such crud!”
Form: Limerick

An Earnest Young Student of Greek

An earnest young student of Greek
Raised his hand in class so to speak. 
  The professor replied
 “I wouldn’t advise.
After all, you’ve been dead for a week!”
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Athena

A Greek 'god' of wisdom
Athens' patron goddess.
Acts chapter seventeen
Apostle Paul teaches
All should repent to God
And to stop worshiping 
Any man-made idols
Form: Pleiades

Leonidas of Tarentum Translation

Blame not the gale, or the inhospitable sea-gulf, or friends’ tardiness,
mariner! Just man’s foolhardiness.
 
—Leonidas of Tarentum, translation by Michael R. Burch
Form: Epitaph

Atropos

A life cut after time
alive and errors made
and lessons from sisters:
acceptance from Clotho -
a hand in weaving birth;
aware from Lachesis
that life is a wonder.
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Ancient Greek

-ancient greece used no spacing or punctuation etc-
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ancientimesawoescriptookeenosesherlokscholareadersoul
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Echo

embalmed in the roots
                                  beneath the methuselah
                                    muffled her still cry




20\8\19
Howmanysyllables
Form: Haiku

Aspect: Aurora

Dawn is upraised
Fierce in disguise--
Then you are dazed
By her rising at length—

Once you have gazed
Straight in her eyes,
Never be fazed 
By her beauty and strength.
Form: Verse

Parmenio Translation

Be ashamed, O mountains and seas: these were men who drew valorous breath.
Assume, like pale chattels, an ashen silence at death.
 
—Parmenio, translation by Michael R. Burch
war
Form: Epitaph

Simonides Translation

Passerby,
tell the Spartans we lie
here, dead at their word,
obedient to their command.
Have they heard? 
Do they understand?
 
—Simonides, translation by Michael R. Burch
Form: Verse

Premium Member Come Home Odysseus

Penelope’s hands are tired
from weaving cunning webs.
Telemachus needs a father.
Faster, faster! Please Athena!
Talk to Poseidon and calm the sea.
Bring Odysseus home, to me.
© CC Bloom  Create an image from this poem.

Cereberus

Dread dog
Shadowy flame of death
Guardian,protector of the ancient doors
Where in lies the underworlds breath
So beware the craggy shores of hell
Where sleeps the hound of Hades
Form: Narrative

Premium Member The Real Pheidippides

The Real Pheidippides

Athenian messenger Pheidippides
Died 30 years before the birth of Thucydides
Most famous hemerodrome day-runner
Ran a 300-mile ultramarathon stunner
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Ancient Greek Drama

Happy birthday, Sister Sarah, 
Enjoy the verse that portrays life; 
Reading the ancient Greek drama 
Lets you forget the global strife. 

Topic: Birthday of Sarah O. Marquez (March 11)
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Greek God

you grace me with your greek god appearance
and i feel lucky
your blue eyes dance romantically
your lips sing sweet melodies
your heart beats passion
and i have fallen deep under your spell

Premium Member The Old Greek

The Old Greek


love flowers
life

anger flares 
grease fire

sunsets
flowers wilt

love love
hate hate

hypocrites
I am king

Perle Fine
my Queen

hells fire
summers here
Form: Couplet

Premium Member From the Greek Anthology: The rose



The rose blooms only briefly when it’s born,
but when it’s died, you’ll always find the thorn.



— translated from the Greek


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Form: Epigram

love from the underground

you are calling for me 
with sweet melodies 
from the underworld,
"Oh Persephone come back to me" 
imbued with sobs,

negligently i slip into your arms -
how dantesque of me to 
conjure an inferno upon me.

Premium Member Like a Greek Adonis

Just because every woman that looks at me Wants me to ravish her, till she can no longer see Well let me rephrase that Ninety percent is more accurate It sure can be challenging for an Adonis like me
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Persephone returns

Gray,
Dismal
Rainy days.
Then leafless trees,
As it gets warmer,
All start to sprout new buds.
Migratory birds appear.
Abandoning the underworld, 
And the ruler of the dead, Hades,
Persephone returns to Demeter.
Form: Etheree

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