Thermopylae Poems - Poems about Thermopylae

...Bold King Leonidas and his band of brave men, Marched forth to meet their fate at Thermopylae's glen. The Persian army, vast and fierce, Hailed arrows down with deadly pierce. But Leonidas stoo......Read the rest...

...How is it possible? A flag colored of freedom, turns on brothers of old like Cain and Abel. Stones turn to bullets as white flashes of a muzzle turn heads from blue skies to red rubble. East to we......Read the rest...

...Epitaph for a Palestinian Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. Autumn Conundrum by Michael R. Burch It's n......Read the rest...

...thermopylae still haunts me to this life. The sights I saw, the blood I spilled. When my men stood tall I stood taller. For every Persian my brothers killed, I killed two. When the sun set are sights......Read the rest...

...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......Read the rest...

...THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE - A SPARTAN DEATH WISH - 480 BC 300 Spartans or hoplites , the truly heroic The loyal and totally patriotic, Were ordered to f......Read the rest...

...VII There never was an army quite like Xerxes’. Hyrcanians, Medes, Egyptians, Syrians, Scyths – soon, Greece would grovel at its tender mercies – a fate more gruesome than the grimmest myths. It......Read the rest...

...I am a Hyperborean living in Serbian land. I am an Atlantean living in Serbian land. I have fed hundreds of swans flying, I have fed Hundreds of swans flying. I embrace The pillars of Hercules,......Read the rest...

...King Leonidas 300 and Counting It was 480 BC King Leonidas with 300 Spartan warriors held Thermopylae Pass Fought against the vast immortals horde of Persian forces Lasted and endured the Xerxe......Read the rest...

...Hearing of a Persian invasion, the Spartan King marched for his nation, To a narrow pass, he would defend. Persians demanded they drop their weapons, Spartans replied, their future destined, "Mo......Read the rest...

...Thermopylae (To the fighters of life) _____________________________________ 1. I fought my way through life against all odds And came out victorious, The enemies many, the battles innumerable ......Read the rest...

...From Heracles immortal line sprang Kings of Agiad The blood of Gods and heroes in mortal flesh thus clad And such was Leonidas, half brother to the King Cleomenes of Sparta, of whom the poets sing......Read the rest...

...Thermopylae, Thermopylae King Leonidas at Thermopylae......Read the rest...

...I can hear Thermopylae beckoning me upon my return Leonidas’ voice calls me forward to battle with hardened pride Time’s grains shifting bellowing out the past I have lived And I am of that past......Read the rest...