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Achilles & Patroclus
what was once Ivory / has now returned to granite / BOTH WE LIE, IN THE EARTH,
@OskarA
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Aristos Achaion
The clang of armour rings through the clamour / of our men screaming thy name. / Thy name that I bear, blazing bright
@boyfinch
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Sweet moon
I never learn, I never learn / Keep mourning your ashes in the golden urn / You were the dawning sun opened wide
@Ayesha
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The Lament of the Son of Menoetius
did you know your hair was golden in the sun? / you were the boy king, gentle as the summer air / you found me frail and useless, when i was nothing
@panaginip
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achilles and patroclus
who would have thought / that his smile / and soulful eyes
@afflatus
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déjà vu
i felt this sorrow once before / when your name spelled patroclus and mine achilles
@nomourners
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“but achilles kept on grieving...the memory burning on...dawn on dawn flaming over the sea and shore would find him pacing.” - the iliad, book xxiv
Achilles does not sleep. / Instead, he seeks the lover’s embrace and curved lips alongside which he went to war; / Those same that he did not find,
@grantire
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Oh, Achilles
Oh, Achilles, Achilles, / How they sing of your anger. / The merciless, unforgiving anger
@cherry98
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patroclus. patroclus.
patroclus. / remember me? / listen.
@shrnrose
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Bound in Devotion
just like the ocean kiss the shore. / I want you. / all of you
@MY_POETIC_DIARY
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Grecian (Patroclus' lost words: I)
body like a Hoplite, / raised from the dust to lay the land- / sent armed
@OskarA
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Lovers Die Young
did You dream of the war when We were young? / when the war was a far away nightmare / days were peaceful and no song was unsung
@Haebalagi
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achilles
fierce and benevolent / these eyes of gold / warm and shattering against the light
@lunartales
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Patroclus; honored friend
He fought for honor with Achilles / Two brothers in arms against the world of treachery and deceit / No one saw the tender gazes that the two shared in their last goodbye
@Pyrrha
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The sands of time flow through bones of children
i understand the Greeks / When they wrote of boys / turning to men as
@OskarA
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divinity
i once was asked to describe him / to explain the aspects that rendered me / feeble, restless
@honeyjay
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Burial Rites
mingle our ashes / let us not part in death / let the memory
@OskarA
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Shared Reflection
Cleopatra and / Patroclus reflect upon / the same cursed mirror
@EvilShredder
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Dignity
My beloved partner; / The hero of them all. / My beloved partner;
@theescapist2001
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The Grey (I Do Not Know Love)
I used to hate the grey / And everything it stood for. / The cold
@HollyLS
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