Amphora Poems - Poems about Amphora

It wasn't the storm that ravaged the dark sky

...It wasn't the storm that ravaged the dark sky,
nor the heavy silence that settled like a velvet shroud,
not the muffled cry beneath layers of quiet breath,
but a single tear, from the left eye, fa...

In the darkness of my room, I tell myself to swallow sadness like a venom

...In the darkness of my room, I tell myself to swallow sadness like a venom,
but my body is a vessel, an amphora for all of it,
the rage, the grief, the longing, they sit in my throat, unmoving,
and...

In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought

...In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought,
Youth sheds at dawn like dew entwined on strawberries,
Weaving a veil of dreams and hopes, the storm is but a hushed song,
The grea...

Catarrh and Catharsis

...... stalactites hung like dystopian snot from a statue 

her brain was frozen and formed ice in her mind

a lacuna without inlet or outlet arrested in time

mind’s skates tied up in bundles of ...

Threat of Extinction

...Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed

Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts

A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning


Letters ...

Ins and Outs Part 2

...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 2

act three

in the third act delirious 
the laws of physics...

Purple

...I smell no Jasmines, Daisies or Geraniums this Summer

Nor my soul desires an ancient amphora

Crimson riddles my skin

My mind is an Amethyst.

An Amaranth a fixed star; an amulet

To whic...

To My Never Was

...travelling to my never was,
my yearly time in the yard
spring time back to cold Ohio
gripped in nonsense and melancholy
I travel to old town
misted by the cuyahoga
surprised yet not I find
the...

To Remembrance

...Thick web of silence, ether which retains
My distant days’ dim trace of tears on sand!
You are the amphora whose dark wine pains
My drowsy brain with thoughts forever banned.
Deceitful lord of lo...

Setting Sail For Italy

...Demitrios the golden Spartan captain sets sail for Italy 
against the western wind; he will certainly mourn Piraeus,
and with sorrow-striken eyes, he'll invoke Poseidon. 
Then he'll depart carryin...

A Song For My Beloved

...Our Beloved returns        with a mighty entourage
his banner men ride before him
             they are swifter than stallions 
and their weapons          as the talons of eagles
their chariots a...

Brutus Iulius Trois Page 07

...Brutust Iulius Trois Page 07
Brutus called his captains into conference
we are done with creeping along the shorelines 
prepare now to sail out across the Aegean
the winds are with us and Troy aw...

Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06

...Brutus Iulius Trois Page 06

The defeated Pandrasus spoke out
his weary words weighted with wisdom. 
Linus is as Greek as I am Greek and as a Greek
let him inherit the crown, I'll name no other ...

Count On It

...count on it...

that numbers made the world
we came to believe
after all ten digits 
long ago ran out
and we stuck our toes into the fray
to count and be counted anyway

and they too ran out
a foot a...

Commerce

...The snarled monogamy
needs a firework.
A solitary moon walks on a lake
nonchalantly.

The marriage
between the planet and moon
was falling apart.
In amphora lies the secret

of a jeweled crown. Cynic...

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