Best Cocytus Poems
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal...Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)
Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they blame
looking at the he......
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Categories:
cocytus, courage, fantasy, hero, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Is Her Belief and Her Commandment...Love is her Belief and her Commandment
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Love is her belief and her commandment;
in restless dreams at night, she dreams of Love;
and Love is her desire and her pu......
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Categories:
cocytus, angel, faith, god, heaven,
Form:
Verse
Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxiv Part1...This is the final CANTO of Hell. I am going to publish the full translation as epub on AMAZON. It was a very hard work to find rhymes in english.
“Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni now
Toward us; so......
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Categories:
cocytus, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Tumid River of Acheron...The Tumid River of Acheron (the journey) Part 1
Dark the tumid, rushing waters flow
where man most wisely fears to go
Liquid blackness sings of epic pain
torture, misery and cries of insane
Ec......
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Categories:
cocytus, art, dark, death, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Hell Translation Canto Xxxi Part 2...(continue from previous)
We walked then a farther site to reach,
Turning to left; and at leaf spring far throw,
We found other larger, fiercer to breach.
In binding him, whoever did it though
......
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Categories:
cocytus, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxiii Part2...We passed over, where was held in frost state
Harshly contained people of the next band,
Not down bent, but all lying in quite strait.
Weeping itself the tears does not disband,
And pain which......
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Categories:
cocytus, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Tumid River of Acheron , the Journey, Final Revision...The Tumid River of Acheron (the journey)
Part One- Final revision
Darkly, the tumid rushing waters flow
where any man most wisely fears to go.
Liquid blackness singing in epic pain
torture, ......
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Categories:
cocytus, art, creation, dark, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tumid River of Acheron -The Journey Part One-Revised...The Tumid River of Acheron (the journey) Part One-Revised
Darkly, the tumid rushing waters flow
where any man most wisely fears to go.
Liquid blackness singing in epic pain
torture, misery and......
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Categories:
cocytus, creation, dance, dark, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Hades and Tormented Souls, the Dwelling...Hades and Tormented Souls (the Dwelling)
(presenting a fragment of the second part promised)
Where the dark wind blows, lies abound
deep into a ravenous, hellish pit.
Lost souls cry and moan......
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Categories:
cocytus, art, cry, dark, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Bring Me To Darkness...I sink, and drown in all my sorrows
Bring me to darkness where I can forget.
Grant me that privilege, let me burrow
My final resting place, my final bed.
Forget, life, every word I ever said.
......
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Categories:
cocytus, dark, death, emotions, loneliness,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bruised Name...Under the feet of heartless passersby, a name no one knows
where from, rolling along the path blood-stained; the name
wounded from time after time is kicked and trampled
by the absentminded stro......
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Categories:
cocytus, anxiety, memory, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Saint Chemo's Fire - Specimens 1 and 2...Sarcomas hatch like caviar
in St. Jude chemo-fire inversions,
where leviathans lay magnetars
to suck the blood of
virgi......
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Categories:
cocytus, art, cancer, child, dark,
Form:
Shape
Story of My Life...
Deep in the dark, I stand
Nothing but darkness surrounds me
“Am I dead?” I ask myself
No, if I were, I would be in heaven
Well seeing as I already lived in a hell
But didn’t they say ......
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Categories:
cocytus, life, lost,
Form:
Free verse
Crimson and Cobalt...strobe into the secret night
the scene of our sacred crime
not just any old crime
I confess to you but
I cry most insidious in design
a crime worthy of the divine
what can such a crime b......
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Categories:
cocytus, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Virgil Translation: Descent into the Underworld...Aeneid Book 6: The Descent into the Underworld
by Virgil
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The Sibyl began to speak to Aeneas:
“God-blooded Trojan, son of Anchises,
descen......
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Categories:
cocytus, death, god, heaven, journey,
Form:
Free verse