Acheron Poems - Poems about Acheron

...Wicked memories haunt my dreams at night and stalk me during the daylight, denying me any measure of peace and tranquility. Please, take me to the river Lethe and rebirth me, so that I may forget the......Read the rest...

...Unto Acheron, great river of woe, the buried to the entrance gate are led, in the underworld to Charon below to ferry across the souls of the dead. Upon your lips, your eyes, a coin recei......Read the rest...

...Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams I Wall, we're astonished that you haven't collapsed, since you're holding up verses so prolapsed! Ancient Roman graffiti, translation by Michael R. Burch You ......Read the rest...

...I stand in the swamp by the riverbank clutching a coin I have stolen as my heart still beats within my breast It is only my spirit that has slipped away to await the ferryman of Acheron Charo......Read the rest...

...Persephone’s Finger By Sy Roth It wormed its way to the surface. Pointy finger tested the air, Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above, Shaming the ......Read the rest...

...Athenian Epitaphs II These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ... Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: his owne......Read the rest...

...Heat Lightening by Michael R. Burch Each night beneath the elms, we never knew which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance, then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up like searchlight......Read the rest...

...Morbid fascination (mine) as covid-19 pandemic... foments rampant monopoly on bedlam Wreaking ball (his stick) havoc (think ostensible civil war scale not seen since Vietnam), whereby microorga......Read the rest...

...1 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky; The hellish slug of gas does creep along. It casts an orb three hundred stories high Over the Sun and ends his morning song. The birds and trees ......Read the rest...

...It’s not just Jesus who rose into grace with scars from nails and the cross Trees grow new branches from knots like wounded soul’s blemish’s scars A rainforest’s undergrowth thrives in the mist......Read the rest...

... DEVIL GO HOME- - Git thee behind me, Satan; Lucifer, Demon, Beelzebub; Whatever your name is now, get up, get out go… Oh, oh, oh no- Devil this place is not your home; Go on go......Read the rest...

...Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal Part One- (Years Before Troy) Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they blame looking at the he......Read the rest...

...Charon—The Eternal Ferryman The mythical ferryman extraordinaire of such keen gaze, Who braves the Styx and Acheron in the deepest of haze. Charon is a most sordid God who relishes his work ......Read the rest...

...Come Back Moses Come back Moses, from yesteryear, and do my bidding once again. Go thee down and plumb the hatred festering in the hearts of men. See the caverns in their eyes, their steel ......Read the rest...

...Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery begins Ghastly ghostly ......Read the rest...