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Orestes Poems - Poems about Orestes


Premium Member Conversations at the Areopagus
... (The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.) Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w......

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Categories: orestes, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
...As a mortal man of threescore and five years... I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned, and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge courtesy reading factual narratives, historical fiction, o......

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Categories: orestes, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse



Bedlam Blues
...Cain killed Abel on a Monday night Abel didn’t get a chance to put up much of a fight Cain said, “am I my brother’s keeper?” God said, “yeah,” but Cain said, “nah” Adam just shook his head and ru......

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Categories: orestes, allegory, funny, murder, mythology,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Splice of Life
... “The Splice of Life” When colour was to be washed out of the world the evil ones didn’t care the Actor led with his Dementors either side of him La......

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Categories: orestes, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form: Free verse
Wimpole Street, Part 5 of 7
...The Barretts of Wimpole Street Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind as trained, acute and fertile as exists. Imagine that your erudite, refined creations top each year’s best-seller lists. Yo......

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Categories: orestes, london, , cute,
Form: Quatrain



The Barretts of Wimpole Street
...Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind as trained, acute and fertile as exists. Imagine that your erudite, refined creations top each year’s best-seller lists. You write in English, French and Por......

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Categories: orestes, love, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
Electra
...Let me seek asylum in the sea Silent depths of ice water, For I have swallowed sorrow Let me touch the clematis of a Seaside garden,a patched wall Sun-warmed and salted by the tide, Orestes......

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Categories: orestes, symbolism,
Form: Classicism
Revenge of a Nation
...Revenge of a nation Sweet revenge for Orestes For the slaying of his father Pitied his sullen face Cold and no longer with us Killed with vigour His betraying sword Sacrifice to Neptune sayi......

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Categories: orestes, death,
Form: Rhyme

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