Abydos Poems - Poems about Abydos

...O Scribes of Thebes, take the noose, burn fiercely the words of Aleister Crowley. For all the wisdom of the hieroglyphic signs lies in union with only one cosmorat-the creator of ......Read the rest...

...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 the grimmest myths. It......Read the rest...

...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 has always crawled, and see......Read the rest...

...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 the rest...

...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 the rest...

...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 the rest...

...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 the rest...