Abydos Poems - Poems about Abydos

...VII There never was an army quite like Xerxes’. Hyrcanians, Medes, Egyptians, Syrians, Scyths – soon, Greece would grovel at its tender mercies – a fate more gruesome than......Read More

... I There are two ways of being in this world, the eagle and the serpent, sometimes called: while one seeks boundless heaven, wings unfurled, the other through low dirt ha......Read More

...Well I can see the golden Falcon of Edfu circling Abydos tonight in the shadow of a blue moon, I can feel the cool, cool desert winds walking the three star path of the Jackal back to Giza again......Read More

...I have been here, the touch of the rose petals under my feet...The drink of lotus wine, adorned in white lien and gold... Behind the veils , in the temples of Abydos ... The scenes replay.... F......Read More

...Leander loved Hero, who lived on the opposite side of the strait, and would swim to her each night, but was drowned in a tempest. Hero in despair cast herself into the sea.* What body this as......Read More

...As the receding nestles of dying love in full bloom, now sadly blown away. The seasons of the massacreing tides of Autumn, the soothing winds of change, now gently at bay. As lov......Read More