Delphi Poems - Poems about Delphi

"Delphi" Held in the palm of Zeus there transforms Her solitary Self in The Seat of Pythia delivering prophecies filled by the spirit of Enthusiasmos Oracle of Delphi speaking gibberish with the lesser priests conjuring the Poiesis into enigmatic hexameters poetic and dactylic by way of Lux towards a place that doesn’t rot In the Symposium where Plato dwells there she commands the soul of Diotima the one who is...

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the mother of the sixties who had no clue what her children wanted knew what to do round up the band the entire clan head to the mall father kids and all head straight for santa wait in line and when it came their turn their childerens wishes they'd learn i want a j.i. joe, a lego set. and a b.b...

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P ythia at Delphi, a famed Greek oracle Y ielded much wise counsel; that’s a fact historical. T ales are told of famous kings by whom she was employed. H erodotus, when told that a great land would be destroyed I f he crossed a river (which by Pythia was shown), A ttacking Persia, found the land destroyed to be...

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Serene the sleepy village appears, houses perched on steep hillsides overlooking deep, forested gorges among a sea of silent pines green. Shops and stores face each other across its narrow, one-lane street, where grizzled men sip their ouzo in some tavern’s outdoor benches. Oh, just to commune with god Apollo high above those lofty Grecian peaks while clouds kiss the mountaintops and the wind to the...

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tourist, because of the sacred bay of corinth is charged with aluminum; at the crossroads, almost visible oedipus waits Have an offering ready and a sacrafice you may ask one question be spacific the answer has always been the same look for it among the broken stones under your sandal or in the unbroken light of the mediterranes sky and remember this: virgins were said to be unreliable so they chose a priestess a woman of certain age by...

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