Asclepius Poems

The Music of the Spheres

...Asclepius, in days when we are young,
The Music of the Spheres we first hear sung!
Through straining then, to listen and to learn,
What revelries of truth one may discern!
But we are not conceive...

The Dream-Cast Realm

...Asclepius, one cannot build from sand,
Such light and shifting grains as mortals be.
The wind and tide shall warp what e’er is planned,
Foundations fade before the pounding sea.
And yet, when gra...

Asclepius

...Lampyris Noctiluca
might the night deceive us
that we lack aeronautical knowledge
yet common sense askes
either friend or foe
might I have the certainty
of knowing
does one  create an ambient ...

Like A Thousand Fires Affirmations

...
 Like A Thousand Fires I Blaze Inwards and Radiate in a Solar Explosion of 
 Light. I AM The Sun Up High, Scintillating like Stardust in the Night Sky. My 
 Eyes gleam like Sapphire, my Heart pul...

Club Lions Kin

..."Curiouser and curiouser!", Alice proclaimed 
" eye two, am adore "

Seven ol' kin
on the strong arms 
of Seven strong more
Mercurius wings by to sing
" ... Welcome to the game, Ein ..."

Al...

Frequency

...
“Frequency” 

we are separated 
from the others
by a thin membrane

electromagnetic

we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own

frequency

existi...

Waiting For the Plague To Pass

...I know not when we shall shake hands again
Or hold in warm embrace for the sheer joy 
Of each sunrise and moonlight
For the plague and news of frightful deaths
In faraway lands 
Have erected mon...

The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity

...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world 
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barel...

Sequestration

...I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator.
But I’ve g...

Heroes Vi

...Hippocrates' sons

glorified Asclepius
   
humanity bows !







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     29 March 2020


*Asclepius god of medicine in ancient Greek religion
and mythology.

**...

Under a Shadowy Moon

...pure and simple
the smile and dimples
the vanity of being wanted

loved and adored,
 such admiration might
 cause one to be ignored

thus should such behavior
 cause others to favor
simply ...

Celestial Cloud Complex

...Our parent galaxy Milky Way
has a nebula giving birth
to stars neath ‘baby blanket’ array
that’s one of the closest to Earth

of astral-forming regions around—
Rho Ophiuchi Complex Cloud,
name...

And So It Begins

...And so it begins on a day in spring
 On a plant bearing a Greek* god's name
  It's as fit for a god as it is a king
 And the spring breezes caress it just the same

 In a few days the plant will...

Unnecessary Removal of Adenoids

...Back in day (of ma
     mum, and perhaps
     since time immemorial)
     utterances of physicians
     nsync with Staff of Asclepius

pounded against floor, 
     (which wrought
life to entw...

The Goddess of Blessed Redemption

...The Goddess Of Blessed Redemption

She gave me a foundation of love's pleasures
complete with wondrous bountiful measures
she a gentle goddess of golden hues,
swept this heart away, vanquished a...

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