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Poetry

ananda

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1. What a clever, enjoyable canto on the current state of Greece!

Reply to Petrushka (Original post)

Mon Jul 20, 2015, 10:25 AM

Jul 2015

My favorite line: Its all so murky, call it Merkel.

Also, this stanza really hits home because ... Byron!

On Byron street, the T-shirts sell
With slogans from Thermopylae.
300 Spartans went to hell
That Greeks (Helots aside) be free.
There’s money, if the mint will make it –
Let’s tell the Troika, come and take it!

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The Trials of Greece --- by A. E. Stallings [View all] Petrushka Jul 2015 OP

What a clever, enjoyable canto on the current state of Greece! ananda Jul 2015 #1

That was a pleasure to read. And I'm going to go look up more poems from A.E. Stallings now. Cavallo Feb 2016 #2

You are in for a treat. Petrushka Feb 2016 #3