Athens Beckons! Comments

though many of the names sound familiar, i'm afraid i can't enjoy this as much as many others can who know history better than i. i like the few rhymes.....i mean i like the ones which are here, though they are few. there is a flow to the poem. i can't help but think of the bad things which have befallen greece in more recent years. but life goes on....so far. thanks for sharing.

it has been well said.but you should have composed this poetic verse with a bit more musical rhyme and rhythm for making it more charming to chant....congratulations...

a nice subject with nice pen. in the ancient civilisation Athens had a particular role in world history. best of luck

Nice penning. Very well engraved grace of Athens with great flow and rhyme.

An Attic Poem, I must call it, with the greekness inside...and it's indeed not a fairy-tale but a modern reference to antiquity...and I'm sure you must have enjoyed this composition of yours as nature has provided you with the ready rhyming easy at hand...best of luck for the contest!

true story nourished in history....

Amazing! I always lost in a feeling that if i were born in Athens before as i feel so familiar with cultures, places and even everything there..though i never being there...the sense is ridiculous, its like i am rebirth in a new place now hahaahahahaha...and this write remind me the beauty of that feeling. Feel so alive.. ;) and i always know that history my recycle the event it just time that changed...so as we learned from past we recreate better in future..loved it_Soul

This poem shows true love for democracy and its origin goes to Athens!

Absolutely enjoyed this. Thanks for your help with penance.

A beautiful poem, worthy of 10/10. The mother of all epistemology Where Socrates could write his Apology Very well said. Liked the comments of Elena Sandu very much.

Athens once mighty and grand connect us to history's unending strand! Oh! what a poem recalling the wisdom of yore.Enjoyable and educative.Thanks and best wishes. Chandra Thiagarajan

Dearest Rekha! Thank you for this wonderful poem! A reminder, the open door to freedom of wonders.. I do wonder if the conversion to Christianity could have put the basis of today's system which inside myself I question if it was intended to bring disaster. Probably not, or so I hope, who am I to find faults in people? (I free myself to find faults in system, lol.... I should not give fault to anybody nor to Justinian who closed the schools of philosophy, why am I so sad? I wonder, could we have a different world if the schools of philosophy of Athens were to be kept running and spread? ... Could it be to late for humanity to go back and start all over again building new castles on a base such of ancient philosophy? I know I have a lot to learn...Thank you sister, this was one of the treasures you gave to me again!