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Harpies Poems - Poems about Harpies

Vultures Circle The Sky
... In the shadows, harpies linger as agents provocateur, for the Fallen Watchers, for pecking order. Prostitute mercenaries, addicted to mercury and disorder. Their claws sharp, their cries a ......

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Categories: harpies, art,
Form: Rhyme
Looking Through to Tartarus
...Harpies shrieked and lost souls wailed The cold wind stung as embers sailed A fetid stench, eyes red with dust When I looked through to Tartarus. Black column’s rose in demon form terror enthr......

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Categories: harpies, christian, death, death of
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Journey to the End
...Follow the winds of the Harpies. Follow to the sigh of last breath. Horrid hounds of Zeus beckoning for you to embrace your dark death. Follow the heights of Icarus Follow till the bla......

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Categories: harpies, death, journey, mythology, ocean,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member ODYSSEY
...The toughest thing about Homer’s Odyssey Is that it is written in Greek The trouble with mine it seems It’s written in words ya can’t speak For Homer had Satyr’s and Harpies And trickery tucke......

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Categories: harpies, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Death of Destiny, Part I
...Enktantas sat bolt upright, in his hut near the temple walls, he lived just below Olympus, worked there beneath the mountain tall. He worked to serve the oracles who would augur the will of go......

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Categories: harpies, adventure, change, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Epic



Why They Cancel, Part I
...When you look at cancel culture, and what it has become today, you can’t help but look back and think it didn’t use to be this way. Free speech was once more respected, people allowed to say the......

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Categories: harpies, culture, evil, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do Dreams Dream-Up the Dreamer To Mean Something
...Do dreams dream-up the Dreamer to mean something Do dreams go on dreaming without the Dreamer dreaming Hold not dreams in mid-stream even during Covid-19 Woken-up dreams scream wild as harpie......

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Categories: harpies, nature, science, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
So Stand the Fallen
...Very soon marmosets and moose will get their vaccines. A lone gnome fishes in a Koi pond. The light of the moon has been dimmed by a Chinese switch. Elite bands of cockatoos fight for fre......

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Categories: harpies, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Xxxvii and Xxxviii
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : XXXVII - XXXVIII XXXVII If ever I had a country And if ever by some magic I were the Minister of Housing Development I'd make it my life-long mission by sweari......

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Categories: harpies, anti bullying, corruption, house,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sexist, Sexist, Sexist
...I just finished reading a new book Which peers deep into human brains, Methodically examining each sex To see what is and isn’t the same, And while men and women are much alike, I was fascinated......

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Categories: harpies, gender, men, political, repetition,
Form: I do not know?
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
...Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view, As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit for......

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Categories: harpies, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
...A Bohemian Maze of True Evil Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view, As evil red-eyed demons rain down......

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Categories: harpies, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
...Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view, As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit for......

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Categories: harpies, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative
The Land of the Heartless
...The whisper from the dreamer contemplated schemes, Shadows of vengeance was corrupt and hallow, Slither with a flicking tongue to prolong all suffering, Sky now scorched black with no chance of to......

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Categories: harpies, bible, conflict, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Eternal Nights
...Unknown to most, forgotten by the rest, Unblemished reason flickers in the night’s Unending gloom, persistent in its quest Until its vigor kindles brighter lights. Beset by whispers from a living......

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Categories: harpies, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

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