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Nike - Victoria

The goddess

Of golden-faced victory

Her head brilliantly decorated with green laurels

Victoria, bestowing victory for what is named after her

Down to the red-plumed Romans with their gleaming swords

 

Nike, champion of the Greek gods.

Riding the chariot of victory into battle

The laurels catches the light of a mirror

It dances away, after its victorious champion

 

She may be a bit crazy or at least hungry

For the taste of that sweet victory

Let her be Roman; let her be Greek;

She is never weak

 

What one might say, she does not know

For her victory is clogging up her ears

Goddess of victory, we all want a taste of her power.

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Written by
starlust
Published
Mar 7, 2015
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#roman#mythology#greek#nike#victory#victoria
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