Short Laurel Wreath Poems

White hair, Gray hair, even No hair at all
some call it "The Crown of Age" 
an imaginary but fixed laurel wreath for life

But, what is there actually under the "Victory Crown"?
in most lives, a sure sign of previous battles lost, 
no more....

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The laurel wreath
Bestowed on victors
Every four years
Blood, sweat and tears
In Pythian Games
Honoring Apollo
At Delphi onto Greece
In a classic ceremony
The corruptible glory
An immortal crown
Prized to artists
Public officials
The poets of Rome
And here at home
A rebirth of antiquity
With Apollo's oracles
Music and poetry
Prophecy and medicine
Things of God as things of men
The reform defecient renascence...

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                      A name means nothing
                      on the battlefield.
                      "Julius Caesar"
                      Test of conscience: 
                      tainted with guilt
                           — behind woven brocade
                                            luxury silk ties.
                      Public praise,
                      laurel wreath.
                      Ridiculous reasoning.
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