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Pompeii Poems - Poems about Pompeii

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Premium Member From Pompeii
He appeared out of nowhere and convinced me to sit with him for a drink. His eyes were wide and glistening, his brow - of the knowledge within. I asked him his name and where he had...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, death, fate, fear, for
Form: Free verse
Last Moment Of Pompeii
Sweet moment recall Laughter behind porticos During Pompeii's fall....Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, history, horror, people, places,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Pompeii
Without you My soul lies An inner Pompeii Frozen In time Mounds And Mounds Of fallen Ash and Century old Magma Weigh Down Inside me What Could have Been Should have Been Would have Been Alive and Thriving A volcano Of love Our volcano Erupting From us Molting Pleasure Our very own Carnal...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, depression, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Love In Pompeii
side by side happy and fulfilled blissful and serene the end was near we closed our eyes for one last kiss AP: 3rd place 2022 Posted on November 10, 2022...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, death, kiss, love, together,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Trip To Pompeii
I won a holiday voucher; good luck had come my way So we put the money towards my bucket list holiday Ever since was small I’d dreamed of visiting Italy To view the Pompeii ruins a sight I...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, culture, history, holiday,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Pompeii Slave Girl
Pompeii Slave Girl There was a young slave of Pompeii Whose master had ordered her stay But she made a dash Whilst he turned to ash Proving girls always have the last say....Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, natural disasters,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pompeii
"POMPEII" Her name was Pompeii and I her mother, loving her beyond measure, took great angst, my heart bursting from the betrayal - she, taking several lovers basking in the underworld where men are fickle leaving unfinished poems on walls shaking like loins buried deep...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, dark, imagery, romance, symbolism,
Form: Romanticism
Pompeii
Tragic is the end of Pompeii Incarcerated in molten graves The once thriving elitist lifestyle ended Now in quietude they lay And the culture that they created swept away All bow heads and mourn for Pompeii Nobody and nothing deserves to...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, death, eulogy, remember, sad,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Pompeii Visit
volcano erupts bodies covered in ashes fear etched on faces 10th September 2017...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, history, holiday, natural disasters,
Form: Senryu
Pompeii
Pompeii Amid ashes pumice lay Life in cinders Pompeii in disarray Vesuvius plumed angry swell Archeologists unearth deathly knell Volcanic vomit ample spume from sunlight golden to darkened gloom Roman bathing in waters pure Nimbus of fires blazing coiffure In 79 AD it's...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, adventure, history, holiday, international,
Form: Rhyme
Pompeii
We moved inexorably towards idiocracy we slipped without grip towards dependency We prayed filled with nothing but false ecstasy we crept towards our death instinctively We lived as slaves fully and intentionally We are Pompeii, Herculaneum the ones who filled the stadium Called for...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, earth, humanity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Pompeii
When nature takes a turn for the worst grumbling rumbles shakes great balls of fire falling in her tears black snowfalls Burning smell of sulphur burns rolling down the mountains molten lava they salute death rivers of flames the chariots...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, dark, devotion, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Pompeii
Smoke and ash covers the sky. Its day, yet it’s as dark a night There’s wailing of children and women scream. The mountain rumbles with Vulcan’s might. Lava is the only light. There’s no saving us. Refuge won’t come. Armageddon rains down...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, city, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Last Kiss In Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius erupts in anger warm air like butterfly wings flashes against our cheeks I hold you my final light... We stand on the edge of the sea a galaxy of smoke and soot swirls around us... My love I wish I had...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, dedication, history, love,
Form: Free verse
Pompeii
Italian winds blow gently and smooth Over hushed dusty remnants of lives past, This once thriving city clueless of its fate Lies frozen in time under hot blazing sun. Chariots and horses stopped in their tracks, Brothel patrons lie in...Read the rest...
Categories: pompeii, city, history, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse

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