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Thebes Poems - Poems about Thebes

Thebes Poems - Examples of all types of poems about thebes to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for thebes.
Premium Member ALEXANDER THE GREAT
... 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......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, horse,
Form: Narrative
Far-off Call : The Cry of the Writer’s Ink to an Anonymous Reader
...O some day to come, it may be that time will bury my memory deep as the hidden sleep of those who lie in some forgotten churchyard; but my judgment is that the future holds for me a fadeless crown ......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, appreciation, art, black love,
Form: Bio



No Brave New World
... In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness wronged-vaped, winged to the w......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member collective nouns: ten front teeth are seven thebes every day of the week
... homelands / husbands / playing house / strands & strings of horses behind strangers lounging un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women, depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective ......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Ma's Soup
...'Dinner won't be long, Dear.' Burt puffed up his pillows and squeezed one out. 'Better wash your hands, now'. The armchair smothered his glee. Wallaby faggots, Brown rice juices, L......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, appreciation, drink, family, farm,
Form: Free verse



Boweth Not Thoth When Thoth Thy Need Not
...O Scribes of Thebes, take the noose, burn fiercely the words of Aleister Crowley. For all the wisdom of the hieroglyphic signs lies in union with only one cosmorat-the creator of ......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, allusion, analogy, angel, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Zeus the Philanderer
...A poem based on the Greek pantheon: Zeus The Philanderer Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, Maidens fair he did entwine, By guileful means he won their trust, Bastard offspring born fro......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, literature, love, lust, mythology,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Memphis Belle
...I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof the......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, allegory,
Form: Blank verse
Everyone Was Trying To Be Different
...Everyone was trying to be different so i stayed the strange hot or cool i never felt different is all of you inverting spheres in the never where electric jolt as i lick upon a dream inside a......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Elliptical Part1
...Canonical, orbit, elliptical, prodigal, crown come back to me reasons and signs and be found in these Stardust, Sirius, be the scourge of Thebes and of the Sirens of Hades on their knees ......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, abortion, adventure, allegory, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Colossus Riddle
...COLLOSUS RIDDLE Watcher of Thebes, your watch has made me want. I bring you death--Oedipus. I proclaim, the very solving of your mysteries. Now cast yourself to Hades, your beauty fails. You......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, africa, earth day, riddle,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member King Tut's Curse
...Holographic forms formed life anew. As colorful lives on walls came true. These walls that held secrets from the past, Ancient secrets hushed unveiled at last. Hieroglyphs now waking with the d......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, destiny, judgement, people,
Form: Couplet
A Sad Story Told From a Battlefield
...He didn’t have a native land, therefore, he had no reminiscences of any sort, neither good nor ill, other than reckless killing at the battlefield where he was compulsorily taken into and depl......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, dark, death, lonely, myth,
Form: Free verse
Oedipus the King of Thebes, Iii
...--Isn’t She a Daughter of Oedipus?-- Isn’t she Antigone? In search of a fallen prince, who roams in the battlefield where the corpses of defeated warriors lie gruesomely in streams of blood. ......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, allegory, anxiety, brother, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Oedipus the King of Thebes, Ii
...--Who Has no Tomb to Rest His Soul-- After the long, long wandering in the wasteland, sometimes by the sea where the roaring wind surges the waters, or times in the highland where the dews chil......Read the rest...
Categories: thebes, allegory, anxiety, death, father
Form: Dramatic Verse

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