the unnamed
ghostly gray petals—
a shadow crossing the grass
I stepped on a name
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A minimalist reflection on mourning and the erosion of identity, set in the asphodel fields of Greek myth, where unremarkable souls wander without memory…
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Categories:
asphodel, death, identity, life, loss,
Form: Haiku
Dionysus Markets Asphodel
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 burdens, all the Earth now mars;
So many pleasures, circumstance doth slay;
Enough, I say, of all of this, be done.
For what becomes of all your struggles here,
But
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Categories:
asphodel, dark, myth, mythology, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Sorrow's Children
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 of men!
And we are different words within that line,
That may, together, solve its mysteries when
Arranged within a harmony divine.
And therefore,
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Categories:
asphodel, endurance, feelings, life, myth,
Form: Rhyme
The Living and the Dead
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 little lot of Earth,
We wish upon it all a grander birth.
Though life is for the living, not the dead,
Your lives our dreams,
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Categories:
asphodel, dark, death, dream, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Voyage to Asphodel
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 intertwined.
But on the Plains, the Plains of Asphodel,
Shall it all at last be well!
The whole of life, ‘tis nothing deep,
‘Tis
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Categories:
asphodel, death, grief, life, mythology,
Form: Rhyme