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It's Greek To Me

...
Yields to fate in time

Aeschylus: "Prometheus Unbound"

Life's hard lesson
Wrong is shameful in the old
Time instructs us all

Sophocles: "Philoctetes"

Words not deeds rule men
Shaped to meet the moment's need
Waging war with fate

Sophocles: "Antigone"

Courage to choose right
And 'gainst harsh reality
Make no compromise

Aristophanes: "Lysistrata"

Poet's plea for peace
Fair breezes speed us onward
Making love not war

Euripi...

Categories: antigone, philosophy,
Form: Senryu

Antigone Trilogy

...Antigone did

That which Gods from her wanted

Bowing to no one

 

Freedom fighting girl

Ethic’ly responsible

A riot God sent

 

Freedom in God’s book

Resistance to oppression
...

Categories: antigone, bible, endurance, girl, integrity,
Form: Haiku

Heat Lightening

...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...

Categories: antigone, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Birth To Infinity

...Germ of essence. 
Human blob. 
Shattered eggshell to the chicklet hatched.
Interlocking  family of a  kingdom.
Beget or begone? Antigone! 
Pouch bearing mammal  with no issue for her milk a plen...

Categories: antigone, art, beautiful, beauty, birth,
Form: Prose Poetry

Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Parting

...Der Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A ...

Categories: antigone, friendship, holocaust, leaving, war,
Form: Free verse

Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Burning of the Books

...Die Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of du...

Categories: antigone, books, fire, holocaust, voice,
Form: Verse

Antigone

...Expressions of grief,
the eyes of a child

An ending in sight
—all nature reviled

(McCarran Airport: January, 2020)...

Categories: antigone, death,
Form: Rhyme

Antigone

...Ancient arenas
Dot valleys of green
Olive tree lined
Stoic serene

Gone is the echo
The sounds of the play
Done is the suffering
Of Antigone

Daughter of Gods
Caring and kind
Her brother’...

Categories: antigone, aubade, daughter, inspirational, mother
Form: Quatrain

Oedipus the King of Thebes, Iii

...--Isn’t She a Daughter of Oedipus?--

Isn’t she Antigone? In search of a fallen prince,
who roams in the battlefield where the corpses of 
defeated warriors lie gruesomely in streams of blood.

...

Categories: antigone, allegory, anxiety, brother, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Oedipus the King of Thebes, I

...--Who Is That Blind Man?--

I saw a sightless gloomy looking man
and two little girls; walking hand-in-hand
through the deserted field in the dusk.

The man’s eyelids were deeply sunk into 
th...

Categories: antigone, allegory, destiny, father daughter,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Charcoal Junctures

...If there be such a thing as fate
and of the actions of men
only one ordained path
then how and why like blood 
do all stemmed and branched things grow
rooted on the endless roads 
of eternal light an...

Categories: antigone, confusion, philosophy, light, light,
Form: Free verse

Antigone

...I am the face of misery
My life, a dissonance of autumn and spring,
The years are written in the same
Lugubrious, nostalgic grey
How can it be the author to blame?
I cannot scream this all away…
Burn...

Categories: antigone, allegory, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Ballad