Short Iliad Poems
Short Iliad Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Iliad by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Iliad by length and keyword.
Why I Can't Read
Once I thrilled to Homer’s Odyssey
to his Iliad equally
‘Til I hurt my sacroiliac
~ and traded literature for TV
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Categories:
iliad, change, health, humor, literature, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Life and Death
As is the generation of leaves
So is that of humanity
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground
But the live timber burgeons with leaves
Again in the season of spring returning
So one generation of men will grow while another dies
Adapted from The Iliad
Homer...
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Categories:
iliad, life,
Form:
Classicism
That Horse
Every scepter, every throne,
reverts again anew
The god’s, their will divided,
—an Iliad of ‘truth’
A war of good intentions,
paved avenue to hell
Honor shamed, by Zeus renamed,
—that horse where judgment dwells
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)...
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Categories:
iliad, judgement,
Form:
Rhyme
Warrior of All Time
You are my empty page of love
my double spaced sheet of solid white
you are my blank canvass
my heavenly shade of metal alloy
and I am your Helen of Troy
This Iliad of love
contains spark notes of our passion
No Greek God can ever compare to you
you
my warrior of all Time .......
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Categories:
iliad, appreciation, god, history,
Form:
Free verse
Rhapsody
RHAPSODY
With reverence to a reverie
No amount of words to alleviate
With deep longings of overture
Turning a rhapsody so complete
As in Iliad and Odyssey’s romance.
I’ll come to keep this tide
To seal this undying love
We will overcome
One slope, one narrow cove
At the sand dunes....
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Categories:
iliad, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Traced Path
OUR TRACED PATH*
My fellow men,
Travelers are we
On life’s journey well planned in advance
Without our consent,
Let us
Obediently follow our traced path
Resisting not our fate
For
Easier this trip to make!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
23 MAY 2013
*HOMER: Every man's fate is determent by the Gods (Iliad, t', 592)...
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Categories:
iliad, life, philosophy,
Form:
Epigram
Vomit (Too Much Ale)
Triple cointreau not a good idea.
I read books before they are thrown on the fire.
Leviathan and Iliad
Good books sometimes seem bad.
This land I inhabit not a place I want to be.
A desperate odyssey set for home.
Vodka and a redbull so disgusting.
Everyone I meet so distrusting.
Idle in a dream I sit.
Disparaged of a life that I skit.
A divine misery I write and live.
And in Inferno I die.
As silently I lie.
Sleep takes me
Sleep takes me.
Sleeping.
Silently....
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Categories:
iliad, lifebooks, books,
Form:
Free verse