Cocytus Poems - Poems about Cocytus

The Eternal War

...
(A lone voice whispers)



Some Antenoraians
Pray
In uneven straight lines

With a new Caiphas
The dark priest

In the Lost City of Dis
In The Far East

For the world
To taste
A Mal...

Optimistic Moonlighting Trimeric

...Mormo nudges Moros shoulder hard,
chthonic behavior a bleak dance;
Cocytus is swollen with sad souls,
what direction do explosives flow? 

Chthonic behavior a bleak dance,
it’s so easy to learn...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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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