Best Phoenician Poems

Ancient tombs, of long ago times
Byblos, the walled city, fortress and shrines
Shrouded in mystery, wisdom's, and thyme
The Phoenicians sailed from this very port
Their ships full of knowledge and the alphabet too

And the peoples from times long forgotten
The ancestors of merchants in the souks of now
The...

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Persian
Phoenician
Armenian
Lebanese
worldly
lovely
my flattery needs fuel
one more glass of wine
grapes and olives  building humanity
more beauty, my eyes crave it so
plus infinite wisdom
glasses full of merlot kisses
if a heart beats
it needs endless love
this woman taught me softness
of whom do I speak?
oh la la only the Egyptians knew
the...

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She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band in a tricked out pinball table. She reminds me of...

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There is something about thy
Odor- almost infallibly refined
An awakening of the senses
A roasting of the oblivious mind

For never have I,
In feeling and thought combined,
Ever lusted for a complexity as such
Of a lover going blind

Even if night and morning
Were to intertwine- 
With you I shall soar
Into...

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Dedicated to Eileen who has expressed her love for this beautiful isle.....


Roman mosaics and Phoenician tombs 
Byzantine castles and Venetian walls 
Pine clad mountains and valleys full of blooms
Windswept wild beaches raked by sudden squalls
Vineyards lay across the land like green shawls 
An island of...

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The Phoenicians
Past

From turbulent seas
rise mighty noble Phoenicians
sailors and masters in commerce
twenty two constant warriors
ancestors of our language
four vassals, thriving Phoenician pride
furnished the Persian kingdom
from the mountaintops
tall cedars , sculpted to fine ships
humanity forever
sleeps in Byblos
ancient city bathed in 
supple cream soft moonlight
sea winds carry messages
ancestors...

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There is a body stronger than the flesh alone
it is the body of your love, that temple built of desire's stone
quarried from the chaos of your erotic emotions, shaped by destiny's moan,
where neurotic nerves, psychotic passions, fanatical faith and romantic rose chrome
are imported from the...

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now in his mind there are many gears
rusty but funtional.

they meter out the letters and create words
 that may even form a Structure from time
 to time.

 iron oxide filled metallic brown bullfrogs 
line up along the inside of his head.

synonymous with repetative lauguage but...

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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  to the Thracian oars
Phyrgians, Scythians, Mysians and  Lycians
all hittite clansmen,  kinsmen...

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For he had all the choices in the world
All the luxuries, the best and most sumptuous fare
All the wealth and splendor ... no bother nor care
Yet the backwaters and stable, not Jerusalem

He chose for my sake, my salvation
Generations since Adam and Seth, Noah and Abraham
Yearned...

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As a historian I was focused, on the long record of writing,
Considered an expert in the field, I found it most exciting.

For countless delights have arisen, out of the written word;
And we only knew crude language, before it had been mastered.

Like the lightning that flashes,...

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They tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone 
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.

The crow saw the cost of the snare, he said. 
Why don't you listen to me the...

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Spring doth bring
Pairing of the loons
Apples blooming on the branch
Lemons scent, as birds so sing
Woods so wet, never ceasing waves
The tides push madly, crashing
Upon the springtime waves
Chanting and ebbing out to sea
Life lifting music, concertos
Sound woodwinds so light
I look for my other, my connected to...

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Wouldst thou for me an air
upon thy tortoise lyre
play, and sing those words so fair
about the Isle of Tyre?

Within whose walls so grand,
there at bazaar would be
hangings made by weaver's hand,
and colored from the sea.

And ships of cedar made,
all crewed by seamen bold,
sailed to shores...

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Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler of the Greek gods whereupon the people did deduce,
That he...

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