Thracian Poems - Poems about Thracian

...POEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cher......

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...Righteous smart left hand Short lived amnesia (there's no app for that) found his highness (ha... ha... ha... hm) drawing a (figurative) blank today January 54th, 2021, when the misses ask......

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...Ibykos Fragment 286, circa 564 BCE loose translation by Michael R. Burch Come spring, the grand apple trees stand watered by a gushing river where the maidens’ uncut flowers shiver and the bl......

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...Erin, for a girl who embodies Ireland by Michael R. Burch All that’s left of Ireland is her hair— bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin, her brilliant air of cavalier despair, her ......

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...These are my modern English translations of ancient Greek epigrams by Anacreon from the Anacreontea. Here he lies in state tonight: great is his Monument! Yet Ares cares not, neither does War re......

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...Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness..... i. Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing, something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,......

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...THERE ARE ORDINARY THINGS UNDER THE SUN BUT DONALD TRUMP IS NOT ONE Let us speak of ordinary things Such as Thracian wars and ascendancy of kings Consulting Greek writers of the Second Sophisti......

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...Sound the shrieking alarm A red flag has been abruptly raised A sign of surrender dipped in the dying essence of a cracked open skull Demanding blood spilt in the form of vengeance, in the form of......

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...In the southern mountains of Bulgaria A gruesome discovery had been made They uncovered hundreds of skeletons Of vampires that were slayed T......

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...Brutus Iulius Trois page 08 Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced the last pirate slain. From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder From men newly freed from their enslavement......

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...Brutust Iulius Trois Page 07 Brutus called his captains into conference we are done with creeping along the shorelines prepare now to sail out across the Aegean the winds are with us and Troy aw......

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...i. At the centre of the world: Back in the Roman days of yore-- A voice echoed, that decreed To a crowd of commons, lost and unsure: "Our rivers run dried, the Wrath of Gods, Needs mu......

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