Best Sibyl Poems

Then Cronus, son of Heaven and Earth
    accepted steel    and cut the twain
Dead Earth descended low in sterile regions
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POSEIDON

Sleep, Lord Poseidon,
Deep, everlasting sleep,
While sailors watch with bated breath.

Old planking creaks –
The pitiable splintering sound –
Old planking creaks.

Old sailor,
Splintery-kneed old sailor,
Keeps his watch,

With ever...

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Prophetic powers draw dark
eyes toward opportunity
hidden in ball of fire
predicting future.

Sibyl speaks.  Boldly foretells
her lift over the threshold
and willfully conjures a
hunk of burning love.

Graceful,...

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Ibycus was on his way to a music festival when he was set upon by robbers. While dying a wave of cranes flew over. Ibycus...

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Sleep, Lord Poseidon,
Deep, everlasting sleep
While sailors watch with bated breath

Old planking creaks -
The pitiable, splintering sound -
Old planking creaks

Old sailor,
Splintery-kneed old sailor,
Keeps his watch

With ever...

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David Austin
THE SIBYL

ASTARTE’S BIRTH

Aphrodite-wed on summer’s noon I lay me long
     reflecting
And glad my eye the sky as hillcrest partner
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Surrealist’s funeral is held in the air,
yet, his coffin is not carried by a supersonic speed plane 
flying through the open sky—altitude higher than the...

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A pure-hearted soul, a floating shining spirit,

The honest power to make someone clearest,

A natured life, where all suffer and feel,

But yet, the strongest must have...

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THE SIBYL

If sometimes I have waited on your word,
Do not forget there is an empire
Out to the east, where freedom is muffled,
Where the autonomous cry,...

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The gods’ privilege is never to die,
the men’s tragedy is most die 
at some point in time of their life’s cycle.

The gods’ tragedy is gods...

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Veil of a light shine brightly to my face
blocks my view against a glance
unto the window of after today
   each day I wake...

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"50 Words for Poe: Sibylline"




Hush your mind



In ancient Persia 
Her sands
drift through your divination hands
Through Her dark mirrors,dethroned now 
Xerxes,you stand before Her naked 
Clairsentient...

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What Fallen Apple Dare One Take Sweet Bite

What value an oracle that denies
Time and Fate both join to join, to create
rich dessert with man's miserable...

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any superstitious peasants 
out there tonight
TV junkies gossipy groupies
smooth talking saxophonists
am I talking too fast
for couple's therapy
uh oh here comes
another scar on my head
the optimist...

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My favourite steno, Sibyl
(No one else can read her scribble)
Has declined to wed
Our Legal Team Head
Solicitor Wilt N. Dribble...

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