To Eurydice
her steps rhyme with mine
an echo between yearn and daunt
I ask her to keep pace, her shadows pine
voices behind me, slick and gaunt
—the phantoms want to keep her
the light ahead hazy, yet I demur
we’re so close—or too close
panic surged deliriously, in prose—
my eyes turn to my asphodel...
her lost shadow whispers: ‘farewell.’
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Categories:
eurydice, death, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
katabasis
Euridice, Euridice
daughter of mortals, sworn to divine;
the bell tolls, the bell rings
“I’m sorry, I miss you”
Orpheus turns; Euridice.
the unmade sheets, dog-eared pages
stacked, dishes scattered in the sink
sunlight splashes
I close my eyes
I see the ghost of where you’ve been
how long has it been
since the summer of your smile,
the spring of your voice.
twenty
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Categories:
eurydice, absence, allegory, death, fate,
Form: Free verse
Eurydice and Her Moonbeamed Tresses
Why in his presence, did her soft heart, always like sweet
cotton candy melt?
Orchestral songs engendered the tenderest feelings, to her
heart, so aquamarine velvet.
Such starlit, subtle, shameless, suggestive glances!
An antennae in every way was she, inviting kaleidoscopic,
tsunamic romances.
On the fog cradled ship, with a cape of fog, blessing her
chiseled,moonbeam face,
His
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Categories:
eurydice, beautiful, imagery, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Exuberant Eurydice
She ventured limitless miles, creating for herself, beaucoup lifestyles.
She cannot be locked in a sumptuous home, nor in your selfish heart.
It's simply not her way!
But you can find her dancing with daisies with no shoes or socks.
Totally free, she will never follow you down to the sea, any dock.
Happily, paintinng her life’s joyous foray!
Beware,
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Categories:
eurydice, dance, fantasy, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Elysian Eurydice
She ventured limitless miles,
creating for herself, beaucoup
lifestyles.
She cannot be locked in a
sumptuous home, nor in your
selfish heart.
It's simply not her way!
But you can find her dancing
with daisies with no shoes or
socks.
Totally free, for she will never
follow you down any dock.
Beware,as she will intoxicate
you with her Spumante-like
mahogany eyes.
With invitations to come
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Categories:
eurydice, courage, fantasy, freedom, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Orpheus and Eurydice
Orpheus and Eurydice
Come by,allow me to rest my knees
on those sinewy thighs!
I do not feel like feeding my mortal
body!
Just want your love to flood my eternal,
starving soul.
In my loneliness~ thoughts of you
crash my thoughts, endlessly!
Like an empty seashore thirsting
for crests of cool water..you...
My musical love partner!
Flood this immutable soul and then,
With tender love and with satiated
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Categories:
eurydice, allusion, fate, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Eurydice
Yeah, she was kinda dark
Steven said when I told him about it
You could tell,he said, she had it in her
But he wasn't there for knee socks and
Golly gee can't believe you said THAT WORD
out loud
The memory leaving me wondering if
maybe
he meant me.
Though he and I both know
I don't have the stones.
Lazy suicide he
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Categories:
eurydice, bereavement, best friend, death,
Form: Free verse
Forsaken Eurydice
[Satyr]
A quick game is all it will be
I can tell you can hear my shouts and screams from forest
Your home it beckons thee
Why won't you come and play with me?
Why cant you cure her?
The venom isn't too deep
If you could awaken her once
Cant you do it again
Did sorrow blind you?
[Orpheus]
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Categories:
eurydice, adventure, animals, confusion, depression,
Form: Ballad
The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
O cruel marraige,
That dost join souls,
And tear them apart,
By serpent's tongue,
Today, on Heaven's Eve.
Dead!
O Apollo, mourn,
Your daughter is dead,
And I with divine tongue,
Sing to mortal ears.
But no more...
My song is choked.
By these selfsame tears,
That once happiness evoked,
Now locked in bitter mourning,
Through the twilight's final flame,
Having thy deathbed soaked,
All in vain...
Eurydice?
Is it but passion's fire,
That I
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Categories:
eurydice, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse