Asphodel Poems - Poems about Asphodel

...Spark, sail into flame. Never again. Melt into miracle, common stuff of roads. Light, transcending is sorrow. Cold, seize my heart. Love, consume. Once, dream, talk in waves of sound. Stars of t......

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...Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land, Where every inch with rich conception spanned, With diligence, in Hades mayst they find A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind. So many burden......

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...Opa John The caboose sits red—its iron spine cradles the earth like Atlas rails stretching into nowhere. The stream murmurs softly its voice threading through Ellie’s laughter like silver......

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...Persephone, as sorrow and as grief, The world and all its tales are told in brief. The mirth of all the ages comes to this: A sunlit sorrow and a broken bliss. The laws of sorrow rule the lives o......

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...Yet, I do know a little of the law: For all its forms but fortify from flaw. To that which renders beauty must it serve, Nor from this purpose, may it ever swerve. From solemn silence, symphonies......

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... Written: February 14, 2025 for Contest by Edward Ibeh “Quote: Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! Edgar Allan Poe” ......

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...Thou, goddess of the hearth, beloved of all, My heart may hear, yet never heed thy call. For I, who love Apollo, wise and warm, Form shattered, died from savage, sea-swept storm. And I shall neve......

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...For you, who must remain in Asphodel, We weep for you, who have forever fell. Yet we, who lost the moment, gained all time. In falling, do we hope that others climb. And though we lost our litt......

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...Listen to this grief I tell, How love away from me didst wind. And though in time, I think she’ll find I loved her better – never mind – The whole of life, its parts combined, Are only sorrows i......

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... The Riders of the Grey Smoke In a dark dream Lost in the Midnight Garden I looked for you Within its semi-darkness I walked through the softly blowing winds Of The Lands of the Ether ......

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...With clouds dispersing above Loch Ba, to where would we go? And just how far? We followed the track for more than two hours listening to birds enjoying the flowers: meadow pippit, willow warbler ......

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...I can’t get the moors out of my skin - me the wild bog asphodel now planted in a pot in tame Ohio. The moors grind you into peat and gritstone, they keep walking you around while the open ......

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...For a Woman’s Love When you chose to walk away from me, swaying those seductive hips, hand in hand with my ‘trusted ally’, you took with you something more precious than pleasure. Whe......

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...What is this fell beast, whose image swarms within my head? An interloper, psychopomp, who gazes with the dead? Swarming visions of the dark, Shades advance through Asphodel, Silently shambling wi......

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...The light that loses, the night that wins And time remembered is grief forgotten And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, and in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begi......

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