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Charon Poems - Poems about Charon


Trash of Charon
It’s quite a sight To be rescued by a garbage truck Before anyone or anything else with luck Rises So early this morning After the big snow Schools closed business delayed Road uncut by any car Birds sleeping in The synapse of tree limbs white feathered with fins Reaching out for one another in an apologetic wind But those guys One impossibly young the other impossibly old Defiant Or...

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Categories: charon, environment, february, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse
Requiem At the River
I stand in the swamp by the riverbank clutching a coin I have stolen as my heart still beats within my breast It is only my spirit that has slipped away to await the ferryman of Acheron Charon who skillfully pilots his skiff from there to where it flows into Styx He arrives and I pay the price He places the coin in...

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Categories: charon, boat, death, love, mythology,
Form: Free verse



Styx
Styx by Michael R. Burch Black waters, deep and dark and still: all men have passed this way, or will. NOTE: According to ancient Greek mythology, the Styx was the River of Death. The dead would pay Charon, the ferryman of Hades, a fare to carry them across the Styx to their eternal destination. (Hades was not...

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Categories: charon, bereavement, boat, death, destiny,
Form: Couplet
Charon 2001
Charon 2001 by Michael R. Burch I, too, have stood—paralyzed at the helm watching onrushing, inevitable disaster. I too have felt sweat (or ecstatic tears) plaster damp hair to my eyes, as a slug’s dense film becomes mucous-insulate. Always, thereafter living in darkness, bright things overwhelm. Originally published by The Neovictorian/Cochlea...

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Categories: charon, urban,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Charons Sheets- Night Owls Lament Ii
I wait for the boat to come from the far shore of the sky across the tree tops right up to the side of my window where I sit, looking out my eyes as glazed and shining as pieces of silver. If the boatman asks for coins, I have them ready. Two quarters copper peaking out along the edge between their silver skins. It...

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Categories: charon, angel, angst, anxiety, death,
Form: I do not know?



Charon
Wading upon the brine of a gloomy sea, Upon a floating dory, I sit above this forsaken deep A creation of shape-less matter, a liquid heap A shadowy taint covers all directions, no exit to flee I paddle slowly, my movements are meech Solitude stalks my soul, avariciously. It follows me Far from hope, attached to an invisible leash The...

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Categories: charon, lonely, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Misled
Nor thunder in the dark, nor flash, nor fire, nor other pyrotechnics that, they say, accompany all such events, nor dire phantasmagorias, going astray in the unconsciousness. I’m all alone down by the river which impassive face turns gold with dusk. The other side is grown with willows. A bit cloudy; a quick trace of water striders, playing tag; a heron, hiding among the...

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Categories: charon, death, nature,
Form: Sonnet
A Tip From Charon To Thomas Jefferson
Was it just coincidence or the work of hidden powers that Jefferson and John Adams passed on within few hours on a very weighty date indeed , which was July the fourth, a day of celebration uniting south and north, and furthermore a jubilee that fell this selfsame year, In eighteen twenty-six, a time of...

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Categories: charon, celebration, history, political,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Charon -- the Eternal Ferryman
Charon—The Eternal Ferryman The mythical ferryman extraordinaire of such keen gaze, Who braves the Styx and Acheron in the deepest of haze. Charon is a most sordid God who relishes his work as the “Ferryman of Hades,” carrying new souls to their oblivion. With an obolus as payment and a flash of his fiery-fierce eyes, Charon performs his morbid...

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Categories: charon, dark, evil, fantasy, judgement,
Form: Couplet
In the Garrison of Charon
Behind my sunken, shallow eyes dissected phantoms draw themselves and smeared perceptions comprise a scheme to thwart the wicked spell. Poignant screens of smoke and screams lactate upon my lungs where illustrations scrawl o'er dreams of twisted eyes and cursive tongues. And burning embers torture groans in visual dreams like vocal hymns the sound a scratch on chalkboard bones a testimony of the grim. The injured malevolent...

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Categories: charon, death,
Form: Rhyme

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