Caligula Poems - Poems about Caligula

Eagerness

...
“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
Desiderius Erasmus

it’s flesh versus flesh in the pursuit of life,
great kingdoms have been bui...

Eternity Just Fell

...Why don’t you rage Siddhartha.
Rage.  Ah.  I suffer.
Jesus of Galilee, why don’t you fight back.
I. trust
Prince of the sands, prophets of the Sun
Peace is offered to this gem
Flowers are sprun...

Cursed

...I wonder why it started
Alcoholism, depression, and panic attacks
But It all makes sense once I trace it all back
Far away on an ancient peninsula
We thought we were superior,
Acted like Caligul...

Game of Clones

...
Another puppet government,
strings attached gone
Proxy power given to the corrupt —
a foreign gameplan
played wrong

The latest Queen gambit
was an Old World maneuver, with 
a neo-Ro...

No Dragons

...It’s you by the stream
only you among the trees
nature in and around you
is a lovely thing
as you walk to the lodge
and your smile
is welcoming inviting.

A kiss on your neck
where you like
...

Abc

...ALONE

aged american
agor’phobic adventure —
alienation

BECOMING

bob brawling baby
bear before breaching beehive —
breathless bonhomies

CALIGULA

calculating cow...

Animal Instinct

...(preferably read in a Boston accent)

When pesky problems piss you off
At no one in particular,
Or bleeping blockheads boil your blood
To rage like old Caligula,
Or dawdling drivers ma...

Theater of Utter Charm - Part 29

...the footing on the flanks of the Hill of Beans
was worse than he had sussed
that drizzling pale morning
when the Sun was lowest
but beans be damned
and their counters with them
yes I know
a sm...

Cockroach Soliloquy

...Cockroach Soliloquy 
By:Judge Burdon

The cockroaches left me a wake up message
Written with saliva and excrement 
it was placed conspicuously  in a garbage can 
where they knew that I'd find i...

Cockroach Soliloquy

...Cockroach Soliloquy 
By:Judge Burdon

The cockroaches left me a wake up message
Written with saliva and excrement 
it was placed conspicuously  in a garbage can 
where they knew that I'd find i...

Hole In the Side Pocket

...

A shiny penny fell to the ground,
and the face of Caesar
started spinning 
ear candy propaganda around

Sparkling tales 
of a former, dark ale kingdom
Oar barrel sales
that spread ...

Wondrous, Eternal, Water

...
Water is wondrously eternal
Immutable in the end
The water one sips 
Could have once passed the lips
Of Jesus or Caligula my friend

It's an essence that flows
drips and drapes
That...

Ludicrous Caligula

...all hail the world's bane
ludicrous caligula
terrible buffoon
riding on an ass, an ass
sliding on banana skins

© Gail Foster 20th January 2017...

Alcoholic's Dream

...Alcoholic's dream,
     to taste her sweet wine I will
          be Caligula....

Mortality

...God in his infinite wisdom created Man mortal for He wished the power of evil to contain!*








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
       12 August 2016



*Imagine immortal, among many others,...

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