Ariadne Poems - Poems about Ariadne

When the Soul Holds a Brush

...I once saw a soul hold a brush—
when my eyes first fell in love
with the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Michelangelo, with the sweep of his hand,
took me through space and time,
into a cathedral of bli...

Psyche, Pale

...Psyche, in the morning hours;
Belladonna flowers?
Dancing stars in silent showers?
Glimmers, glows, and glowers!

Ariadne, webs to weave?
Wisdom, will ye grieve?
What ought mortals to believe?...

Princess Ariadne had an Empathetic Heart

...King Minos of Crete asked Daedalus,
the inventor, to create a labyrinth
beneath his palace. He housed Minotaur,
a fearsome monster in the labyrinth.
Minotaur had the head of a bull and body of a ...

In the thicket of spinning days, where fate weaves deep

...In the thicket of spinning days, where fate weaves deep,
I seek freedom on paths of stars, my wave of hope.
Science tells me to believe in the dance of matter, in the sophism of time's flow,
That ...

diamonds

...Flying across the white expanse
a dull day becomes coloured 
with the distant foggy 
black marks of flight
opening wings wide 
like a murder of beaks
thirsty for the blood 
of the ink of other...

Prime Mover

...Leave a man to him and his words
and telescopic terrains will open,
as splendid as the midwinter constellations
sprayed in a barbarous sublimity across the sky,
with the serene orb of Jupiter han...

Minotaur: Part 2

...Cont'd from Minotaur: Part I

When Theseus arrived in Crete,
he met a lovely maid.
She knew what death awaited him
and hurried to his aid.

She slipped a spool of silky thread...

Minotaur: Part 1

...There was a king in ancient Greece,
and Minos was his name. 
His kingdom was an island — Crete.
Enormous was his fame.

In Athens ruled another king
he too — a mighty one.
And...

What If

...Archimedes slipped in the shower
          Diogenes drowned in a barrel 
                    Thor shook in his thunder
		              Ariadne lost her thread

Pinocchio had a broken nose
     ...

Mirrorverse

...Trapped in your mirrorverse
I put my faith in thy hands:
Guide me or lose me
It is all up to you.
Within these walls of your eternal reflections
It doesn't matter 
Whether you’ll be my thread o...

Sea Shell

...I am a sea shell
exotic and rare
delicate, luminescent
beyond compare

I once was a home
for a creature so tiny
who hid in my depths
protecting her hiney

For she was so lovely
she gleamed...

Oh My God

...Oh My God

You can do it alone Sissy don’t be a ‘sour puss’
All that rolling a stone uphill is best done in utter

		~ Reclusion ~

Oh Godot all that waiting and never to come
Almost there an...

From Large To Small

...From  ~  LARGE  ~  to  ~  small  ~

K~Konstantin had travelled the world in unbeknown searching~g        

A~Ariadne lost the plot and her thread a modern Sisyphus on the run~n

R~Raised in mat...

Mythical Nonsense

...Daedulus and Ariadne were walking late one night,
Through the maze of Labyrinth, when something caught their sight.
A creature fearsome and bold, the mythical Minotaur,
Theseus the brave came runn...

Resurrecting Icarus

...Resurrecting Icarus
or
A Modern Moral Fable
by
Rick Folker
Kansas City, Mo


Daedalus claimed the sky,
Built a labyrinth from which
Theseus could fly
...
Minos enraged, entombed the 
Tre...

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