Athenian Poems - Poems about Athenian

Socrates' Sacrifice

...In the agora or out on the street
Wherever public figures I did meet
In conversation I loved to engage
Only to find my  questions would enrage
I chipped and chipped at their exterior
Their words...

At the meeting

...They amaze me with their Athena thoughts -
full-grown at birth -
while I sit silently, my stereoscopic vision flat.

As they speak, hypnotic images emerge with a three-dimensional power.
I'm ove...

Pulchritudinous Independence Day 2023

...Utter brainless nincompoop
in this poem heretofore addressing
I wanna be forever free
and clear from mortal anguish,
and need more than a blessing -
I need a miracle worker after confessing
beh...

The Real Pheidippides

...The Real Pheidippides

Athenian messenger Pheidippides
Died 30 years before the birth of Thucydides
Most famous hemerodrome day-runner
Ran a 300-mile ultramarathon stunner...

A Cross To Bear

...Nick's descent,
            his thoughts neutralized
            words that spill out, hobbled
                                                nonsensical

dementia stifles all intentions,
    ...

Athenian Night

...August in Athens is always confusing
I spent the evening looking at a white wall the moon had lit up,
waiting for the movie to start.
Staggered into a church where bearded priests handed out bags ...

Woman and Machine

...WOMAN & MACHINE

At a small hotel in Vitoria-Gasteiz
working at a table adjacent to a balcony
bounded and protected by an intricate 
wrought-iron barrier rail, I was watching 
pedestrians two s...

All About a Donkey

...Many years ago,
Before yours or my time,
When the only way to
Travel to and fro
Was not with automobiles,
Or cars or trains,
Or even planes. 
But with a horse or a donkey.
This happened in th...

Democracy Ii

...Oh, Democracy,* 
You, the most desirable bride among  
Political systems,
Your suitors many have been throughout 
History  
In every part of the world, you were the one
They were after
But
Yo...

Athenian Epitaphs Ii

...Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: 
his owne...

Hiding In Plain Sight

...Aphorisms or EPIGRAMS on God and Human FREEDOM (?)
1. God is hiding in plain sight: God is the background, the very canvas, without which the foreground, the ART, cannot be! 

The renowned ...

This Rock, My Earth and Me

...my Goddess entwines
love and the kind
of encouragement
worthy of Thor

on a pedestal of pure
Athenian marble 
she inscribes 
my tablet 

chipping away
a bit everyday
the imperfections
ar...

Athenian Epitaphs

...Athenian Epitaphs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only th...

Medusa Sleeping Part 1

...said
to have
a face of true
beauty so beautiful
too beautiful deserving
an Athenian beauty salon

curse
hours under
the sculpting 
stylist's stolen eye
honey when i'm done 
with you you'l...

Workingman's World

...1.


In an ahistorical fog:

all the Ways home,

all the signposts,

treacherously hidden 

by greedy men and women:

all eyes off the ball:

mere contemptible bourgeois folly.


2....

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