Archimedes - Genius And Designer Of Weapons Poem by Paul Warren

Archimedes was a great Greek thinker and inventor
Who was able to give Syracuse city an edge as a mentor
When he made a giant claw that picked Roman galleys up
From the sea and sink these ships weighing 60 tons all up

And so the city was able to withstand these ships for a year
Until they left the claw alone at the wall with the Romans winning clear
This genius made a deadly mirror that focussed the sun into a ray gun
And also a steam cannon that shot stone cannon balls with the fight won

But Archimedes was killed without being recognised by an ordinary soldier
At the siege of Syracuse when it was finally broken and there was great danger.

© Paul Warren Poetry