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Best Antigone Poems


Antigone
I am the face of misery
My life, a dissonance of autumn and spring,
The years are written in the same
Lugubrious, nostalgic grey
How can it be the author to blame?
I cannot scream this all away…
Burn nor Bleed this all away…
To Death I am Ordained

Lacuna ever growing
With Velvet...

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Categories: antigone, allegory, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Ballad
Antigone
Ancient arenas
Dot valleys of green
Olive tree lined
Stoic serene

Gone is the echo
The sounds of the play
Done is the suffering
Of Antigone

Daughter of Gods
Caring and kind
Her brother’s keeper
Loyal to die

Ancient arenas
Magical myths
Beautiful backdrop
For the nymph I am with

Headstrong and honest
Gorgeous green eyed
Intriguing Igoné 
Daughter divine

Keeper of many
Righteous and...

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Categories: antigone, aubade, daughter, inspirational, mother
Form: Quatrain
Antigone Trilogy
Antigone did

That which Gods from her wanted

Bowing to no one

 

Freedom fighting girl

Ethic’ly responsible

A riot God sent

 

Freedom in God’s book

Resistance to oppression

End to slavery...

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Categories: antigone, bible, endurance, girl, integrity,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Antigone
Expressions of grief,
the eyes of a child

An ending in sight
—all nature reviled

(McCarran Airport: January, 2020)...

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Categories: antigone, death,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry