Greek Mythology Poems - Poems about Greek Mythology

Choking up chunks of half-digested sin— will I ever forgive myself? Allow myself to live? My biggest fear is falling like Icarus, and never being able to put my wings back together again. ...

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She came in silence where the cedars sway, A lunar hush beneath the argent trees. The serpentine wind curled words she wouldn't say— Just breaths and bow and coolness on the breeze. Her sisters moved like stars in cascade flight, The Hunters, free of longing, fierce and far. Their eyes held depths no lover dared to write, Each step a hymn beneath...

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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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ghostly gray petals— a shadow crossing the grass I stepped on a name ______________ A minimalist reflection on mourning and the erosion of identity, set in the asphodel fields of Greek myth, where unremarkable souls wander without memory… ...

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It may be one of the most poetic ending of all Icarus’ fall, that is Stupid, prideful Icarus The boy who flew too close to sun and expected not to burn He learned that things can be beautiful But intangible and fatal Everyone talks about his death How greedy he must be to have the opportunity to fly...

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reversed and reformed repost edit. once before humans walked the earth. before Adam and Eve before the trees and the air we breathe there was one- one physical body with four legs four arms and two heads as well as one soul accompanied by one heart. as full of love and self as they could be....

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Leaves labor in loam, roses endure the drouth’s weight, From the east, petals peel, in soft drift concatenate. Chariot’s beacon soars to the glint’s edge of tomorrow To know, to grow, to sow, to go Ooooh… ahhh… mmmm… Aaaah-ooooh… ooooh-aaaah… Mmm-hmmm… ohhh-ohhh… ahhh… Oooh-waaaah… ooh… mmm… ahhh… Brightly Shiny Threshing floor Sacred door The axis wobble Eternal circle Summer adieu Seasons...

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* Everyone grieves in their own way ~ time will only tell if healing comes, * for some, deaths blanket; unbearable and Thanatos is nearby —poetess * * Despair? so be...

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-For Achilles and Patroclus, reunited in death Alone, walks a soul upon the earth. He stands before a memorial, knowing that is where his body lies, But he himself has no grave; no remembrance: He will not be told in future stories, Unlike the man he lies beside in the earth: who he loved so dearly. He stares at the...

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-For Asterion, who only became a monster because he was treated like one Throw him in the pit where he belongs, Though he was not born naturally evil: no one is. His mother had raised him with watchful, tender care And now he longs to hold her hand again. The doll she gave him smells like her, So he...

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Gray, Dismal Rainy days. Then leafless trees, As it gets warmer, All start to sprout new buds. Migratory birds appear. Abandoning the underworld, And the ruler of the dead, Hades, Persephone returns to Demeter. ...

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you are calling for me with sweet melodies from the underworld, "Oh Persephone come back to me" imbued with sobs, negligently i slip into your arms - how dantesque of me to conjure an inferno upon me....

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The rising red sun arousing Mother Gaea with bright red embers....

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Wings, gifted to him. Tools of freedom and one’s end. Follow instructions....

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It once belonged to me, but you’ve since traded it it, exchanging every sacrifice, every fiber of my life, for your new world your new wife. I’m covered in blood we brought into this world, but it stains only your hands. As I watch the souls I brought into this world, leave silently, innocently, I picture biting into your chest, tearing, ripping, gnawing veins and arteries as you scream and...

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