Aeschylus Poems - Poems about Aeschylus

...There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. —Aeschylus Happiness in Memoriam Each neuron tingles with happiness, in unnerving vise. Presently, the squeeze......

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... Written: January 20, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker Quote: “There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.” Aeschylus, Line of inquir......

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...Aeschylus: "Agamemnon" A man in exile Feeds himself on barren hope Yields to fate in time Aeschylus: "Prometheus Unbound" Life's hard lesson Wrong is shameful in the old Time instructs u......

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...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,......

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...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......

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...***************************************** 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......

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...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: ......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...(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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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