Aeschylus Poems - Poems about Aeschylus

...I was reading Aristotle, because I am just weird like that, and as I poured through ancient words I was presented with the fact that what I read from classic times saw far deeper then I can see,......Read the rest...

...Sleep our glorious ancestors, sleep! Do not be disturbed. We, your descendants would never betray The blood you have shed to liberate Our land. The Land of: Homer and Hesiod Aeschylus and Eur......Read the rest...

...***************************************** The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus ( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship ) Else the throngs of mortals find the truth......Read the rest...

...Mahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems Palestine by Mahmoud Darwish loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch This land gives us all that makes life worthwhile: ......Read the rest...

...pruned passions bled clutching callous crest felon fills fetched dark dances decked hoity hankers squashed taunted thrills trashed wet wits wanky sassy sips sugary nauseating nocturnal nitt......Read the rest...

...Such Tenderness by Michael R. Burch for the mothers of Gaza There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as only the dove on her mildest day has, when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a w......Read the rest...

...Athenian Epitaphs Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. —Michael R. Burch, after Plato Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell? Only th......Read the rest...

...Death by Turtle (An Eagles Snack Kills Aeschylus) With light along the quiet beach receding Sun and sand sink on obfuscated facts Great tragedian figures don't live forever in the past Along......Read the rest...

...(On the morning of February 25, 1983, the great dramatist Tennessee Williams was found dead in a New York hotel suite. He had choked on the plastic cap of his eyedrops bottle, which he habituall......Read the rest...

...A few of my favorite things A few of my favorite things Looking at paintings of Cezanne Rembrandt Van Gogh and Rodin thinking of their lives and of their times of where and when they paint......Read the rest...

...The gods’ privilege is never to die, the men’s tragedy is most die at some point in time of their life’s cycle. The gods’ tragedy is gods can never die, the men’s privilege is to die when time......Read the rest...

...Erato whispered in Man’s ears poetic words that he could hear; they are ancient as Greece itself which became Man’s only real wealth. Aeschylus heard her wordy waves that sparked his tra......Read the rest...

...Oh, ancient Greece, How much you have filled my soul. The aesthetics of your kind, Are more than satisfied By your beautiful eyes. The epics of grace, Odysseus and Helen’s sublime face. T......Read the rest...

...- AESCHYLUS Strange thoughts give words a pain. A mountain unfolds a tunnel.He who carries a vase of ashes must enter the gate to plot a path for history.Ideas have turned into stones. A viol......Read the rest...

...What goes on in the gist of his mind? He anxiously awaits the moment to hold his first love again, to confine her in his palm and formulate a rhyme so fine, a line so devine that when the array ......Read the rest...