Every Remaining Last God
...Covered by cloud the out-of-sight tops of soaring towers,
Buckling under their own weight, beginning to topple from
Those airy heights;
The gaping breach - the once impregnable outer wall!
The i...
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Categories:
agamemnon, mythology,
Form: Free verse
It's Greek To Me
...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 us all
Sop...
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Categories:
agamemnon, philosophy,
Form: Senryu
Heel
...
"Heel"
Another language speaks its truth
one’s truth is another’s war
Agamemnon and his achilles
to heel a virtue
to heal a cause
such an odyssey
styx and stones
C...
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Categories:
agamemnon, muse,
Form: Narrative
Echoes of Ancient Tales
...Written: June 22, 2023
In the realm of ancient lore, I yearn to reside,
To bear a deep dive into tales untied.
Achilles, a warrior with a heart of fire,
Hector, noble and valiant,...
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Categories:
agamemnon, appreciation, history, introspection, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The River of Life
...I wish I could immerse myself
in the pages of history, time,
and deep reflection...letting go
of everything I think I know
and give myself another chance
to clarify my perceptions and belie...
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Categories:
agamemnon, bible, books, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
When the Engines Feast Ii
...Kings of lizards
The great multi-horned beast
A rise in the east,
The prodigal son
Coming in the Fire
Of mythic Agamemnon!
As the beast lay waste to Dominion…
Divinities promise oblivio...
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Categories:
agamemnon, allegory, allusion, america, art,
Form: Free verse
Ares
...An atrocity loose
Across state of Ukraine
Annexation Russian
Arms raised in defiance
Against staggering odds
An iron curtain drops
Agamemnon awaits...
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Categories:
agamemnon, war,
Form: Pleiades
Anchors Aweigh
...Anchors Aweigh...
destination unknown
for this Earthling
stardate: February 26th, 2022
At sea since time immemorial
I relish being alone
upon oceanic expanse
yours truly doth bemoan
me ga...
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Categories:
agamemnon, 6th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Greek Revolution 25 March 1821
...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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Categories:
agamemnon, freedom, remembrance day, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Within My Eyes
...Do not wall yourself
dead within my eyes
as Anarkali was, alive
your silent tomb
as if Orpheus
I glance to seek you
but cruel Hades has
torn you back
to his hateful...
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Categories:
agamemnon, love, myth,
Form: Free verse
Ides of Lovers
...Do not wall yourself
dead within my eyes
as Anarkali was, alive
your silent tomb
as if Orpheus
I glance to seek you
but cruel Hades has
torn you back
to his hate...
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Categories:
agamemnon, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Honey Is Bitterly Sweet In Fictitious Love
...(Greek Hero Agamemnon Part)
Love has gone for victory
Fate
made the love blind for victory
and slain the innocent heir
oh the game of goddess
the remained love
weaved the hive for ano...
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Categories:
agamemnon, grief, hate, life, love,
Form: Free verse
In the Minds Fixed Eye
...VIII
In the minds fixed eye I see five newly discovered graves,
Headless lions sat atop an impregnable "Triumphal Gate";
And guileful Cassandra, she laid her two murdered ...
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Categories:
agamemnon, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Anchors Aweigh Destination Unknown
...Anchors Aweigh...Destination Unknown
Weather beaten cap'n,
and watertight bewitched craft
time tested since maiden voyage
(circumnavigating the globe
back in the day
of my youth),
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Categories:
agamemnon, absence, adventure, allegory, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Meteorologists Prediction
...Close on the leatherneck well booted, high healed stormy, clip clop,
sans well fashioned faux shod Harvey didst stomp with heavy drop
ping like a furious ogre, and before classes even started
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Categories:
agamemnon, grief, hero, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
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