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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Categories:
delphi, freedom, i am, life,
Form: Free verse
Santa Clase the Orical of Delphi
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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Categories:
delphi, family, father, father,
Form: Blank verse
Pythia At Delphi
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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Categories:
delphi, history
Form: Acrostic
Village of Delphi
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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Categories:
delphi, nature, places, time,
Form: Narrative
On the Road To Delphi
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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Categories:
delphi, devotion, faith,
Form: Concrete