Constantinople
I don't believe there is very much hope
For my writing a poem on CONSTANTINOPE
Of Paris or Venice, or perhaps the Big Apple
I think I could write one with less of a grapple
There's a rumor around, it's on the Black Sea
A visit for tourists, but not ever for me
A city with long history intriguing
To research it all would be most fatiguing
Once head city of the Empire Byzantine
A grander city the world never had seen
Capital of the Roman Empire it later became
When ruled by the despot who gave it it's name
No longer Byzantine during the Constantine rule
No longer Constantinople, it became Istanbul
Who knows it's name or what the future holds
For this city of cities, as its future enfolds
by Stan Cooper...10/99 graphic by Don Hunt
Poetry by Stan Cooper
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Written on 2007-04-30 at 22:18
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