Zeus Poems - Poems about Zeus

reversed and reformed repost edit. once before humans walked the earth. before Adam and Eve before the trees and the air we breathe there was one- one physical body with four legs four arms and two heads as well as one soul accompanied by one heart. as full of love and self as they could be....

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My friends, it is a dismal thing At such an hour to pound and ring! Let others shiver if they must, I shall not greet a sky of rust! Let first the air be half so warm As in this covered nest I form. And then, perhaps, if need of it, I’ll lift an eye, and half-way sit. Forever slept, thou fiendish, foul-formed...

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From East to West let my servant's trumpet announce this victory over those who defied me; no Greek dares to fight me: I am their uttermost deity! They named me Zeus and look to me for guidance, I carry the thunderbolt and I strike all enemies with vengeance; they fell by the dozen in the battlefield below Athens, the ones who survived will challenge me...

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Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri IRON MAIDEN Iron maiden was she fathered from loins of Zeus flow free ~ surrounded by swords steely three, icicle aura bounded hounded innocence thorned crowned exiled white mane this maiden iron clad sane became She ran in plain rain on grassy hill for all to see glistening glaring flaring Sekmet at her shoulder a...

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Thou, Minos, know I’m weary of all things, Of wars and deaths and cabbages and kings. I wield that battered shield that is the sky, And with my strength protect what ‘neath doth lie: But what when Earth itself would wish to die? ...

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I'm well aware the streets aren't paved with gold yet I still tread upon all forlorn roads, not wise enough to see what I am told, expecting much anew at each crossroads. I long knew that grass is no more greener yet I still walk across from parched to see, wisdom will not still my inner dreamer, for yonder may I find...

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I sat by a boulder, then an image grew A goddess with a pen hovered over the stone She said I'm a muse, with a mission for you To write a song titled "sunrise like a poem." I said "nothing rhymes with poem; I can prove it on my phone "Wait 2 minutes, I'll pull up rhymezone. She said, "You don't...

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once before humans walked the earth. before Adam and Eve before the trees and the air we breathe there was one. one physical body with four legs four arms and two heads as well as one soul accompanied by one heart. as full of love and self as they could be. they challenged thy who...

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Inspired by Ink Hermes, Patron God of travelers in winged sandals and caduceus staff you claim Godspeed as you fly on and on and on Nike, Goddess of victory, athletic troubadour, sweet paramour you claim God speed as you fly on and on and on Iris, Goddess of the...

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Prometheus by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch obscure Your heavens, Zeus, with a nebulous haze! and, like boys beheading thistles, decapitate oaks and alps. yet leave me the earth with its rude dwellings and my hut You didn’t build. also my hearth, whose cheerful glow You envy. i know nothing more pitiful under the sun than these vampiric...

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CORINNA I come to sing of heroes' and heroines' courageous deeds.—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch Mount Helicon, father of fair offspring, friend of the wayfarer, beloved of the Muses!—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch Terpsichora calls me to sing beautifully of heroes for Tanagra's white-clad daughters and my city rejoices, hearing my clear, evocative voice. —Corinna translation by Michael R....

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Sappho Translations IX Sappho, fragment 17 translation by Michael R. Burch Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears, you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows, those dazzling kings who did such amazing things, first at Troy, then later at sea. And yet, sailing the sea-road to our island, those mighty kings still could not attain it until they had called...

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As the peas in a pod explode, That is how I feel amidst a lone road, Loosing you eye cannot afford, With the help of our God, Love is protected under a cloud. Like Vision and Wanda, We wonder, What awaits the inseparable goose and gander, For what our creator puts together; No man can put asunder, For where there is no retreat;...

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Zeal for leadership Empowered by lightning and thunder Ultimate ruler of the gods Sky is his domain 5-15-2024...

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Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch Passage home? Impossible! Surely you have something else in mind, Goddess, urging me to cross the ocean’s endless expanse in a raft. Let’s hope the...

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