Best Thebes Poems

--Isn’t She a Daughter of Oedipus?--

Isn’t she Antigone? In search of a fallen prince,
who roams in the battlefield where the corpses of 
defeated warriors lie gruesomely in streams of blood.

Isn’t she Antigone? In search of a sibling who was 
rejected by a sightless ruined old...

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--Who Is That Blind Man?--

I saw a sightless gloomy looking man
and two little girls; walking hand-in-hand
through the deserted field in the dusk.

The man’s eyelids were deeply sunk into 
the socket of the eye and lips were quivering 
from unknown fear, and even tears stood in...

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--Who Has no Tomb to Rest His Soul--

After the long, long wandering in the wasteland,
sometimes by the sea where the roaring wind surges 
the waters, or times in the highland where the dews chill the bone,
and other times by the marsh where pouring rain lashes...

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homelands / husbands / playing house / strands 
& strings of horses behind strangers lounging 
un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women, 
depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective 
as a twisted bark of favors 

sneaky is a wooden gift donkey at a...

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