When sun whispers goodnight to crimson skies,
and clouds turn from lavender to soft grey
sun glides away to shine in others' eyes
zenith is sun's place to herald each day.
Sun god Helios rode from east to west
pausing in zenith to admire his throng.
Then hurried on, as day's movement was best
and, somewhere, summer days wished to be long.
Coming from Arabic, zenith now means
“highest point,” roughly, where Sun sits at noon
Sun never quite relinquishes its gleams
when viewed as opposite, lights a full moon.
Earth revolves and to Zenith sun rises
Sun stirs golden rays with a gilded spoon
Once a day, even when cloud disguises,
sun is at zenith, then races with moon.
May 13, 2023
for "Word Challenge--Z Words"
by Constance La France
Halo over his head
He had piercing, fierce eyes
Had children, some unknown
Heralded much like Zeus,
He rode across the skies
Helios was a fierce competitor
Horae, goddess he wed.
Written February 24, 2022
especially for "Greek Mythology" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Joseph May
syllables checked by HMS
On This Forever
David J Walker
On this today
I will live in
This Forever
As if
This forever
Has never
Been lived before
Never is when
This today will end
As if
This sun will send
It’s rays
In a never-ending
Display
of brilliant light
There will be no night
Tonight
Nor twilight
No sunsets insight
I will ride with
Helios’ horses
Dragging behind me
the Unconquered Sun
Conquered now and dressed
In the rags of a vagabond
Who will kneel and
Humbly proclaim
The name of the
Only living God
This forever
Will never end
As I live and die where
Tomorrow never comes
Bestow me with poetic quotient
Styling my verses just fragrant
Magnificent is Thy limitless aura
Making jubilant all fauna and flora
How the organisms find solace
In Thy company pretty flawless
Let me get the niche so awaited
To discharge my chore celebrated
Bless me with Thy affection cool
So no poison creates a whirlpool
Of mood swings due to hatred
Of folks’ malignant plans dreaded
Thus my Sun Lord keep me under
Thy light as I pray and surrender..!!
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Let’s bask in the Sun, come what may.
For Sun rays have the power to eliminate.
All the impurities and parasites ultimate.
And the Sun Lord being an eternal source.
Of energy, confidence and zeal with force.
The king of planets with special charm.
To keep all living beings fully warm.
Instils leadership qualities umpteen.
If prayed during dawn delighting.
Bestows health and wealth in teem.
Along with compassion and self-esteem.
O my most fair fatherly Sol.
Fill with power my entire soul..!!
"Helios and The Tempest"
...
full knowing his azures
she watches him rising
he sends sunlight
to her windows
full knowing the thoughts
non-conditional behind
her shaded jades
what fresh hell is this
spring green now
becomes her dazzling day
he doesn't miss a trick
he sends golden smiles
they're forever in eclipse
when he is the sun
she is the moon
day in day out
they move like this
he weathers her warmly
The Tempest
lets her reign
he brings out his fire
imparts each time
time and time again
she crackles electric
radiant
her thunder and
her lightning rods
thrown for want
of love
he lets her reign
like this
he brings out his fire
imparts to her each time
she's captured with
a long held kiss
suspended she is
enraptured
he has won at this
she will gladly fold
into him, and to him alone
she'll willingly lose
to share a chance at bliss
Hearts are Trumps
They can win at this
(LadyLabyrinth/2020)
I wake this day knowing there
is no space between God and me.
Already, part of eternity's mantle!
Just to be myself, naturally.
Even though fear and doubt
may appear as clouds to delay
or to stifle me.
Being fearlessly me, despite
opposition....
Was, and always will be, my
life's main concentration.
To please a group, to bow or
cow-tow,
Is a thing no poet nor human
should do.
You are already complete and
divinely, whole.
Wishing you a day of dancing
muses and the reflections of fresh,
scented, aromatic roses.
July 5, 2019
7am PST
Sunflower, accursed, to stand and stare,
And Clytie was her fair begotten name.
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
Leucothea was Helios' lady fair,
A love fallen prey to jealousy's game.
Sunflower, accursed, to stand and stare.
Helios' love was lust she did declare,
Harlot - did Clytie Leucothea defame.
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
Leucothea burned at a stake in a flare.
Clytie pined for Helios without shame.
Sunflower accursed to stand and stare.
Angered Helios at this state , unfair,
Turned her to flower - Helianthus fame .
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
She stares at the sun with no one to care,
At night she weeps with her remorse laid bare.
Sunflower, accursed, to stand and stare,
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
~16 Jun 2016~
Syllable count per line: 10 - checked via www.howmanysyllables.com.
Mentally choking on paranoid covers,
No matter where I am, everything is next.
The corners leap out— one after another,
Trapping the resolve in its reckoning hex.
Unfolding like slabs of sidewalk before me,
Briskly walking through billows of fret,
A thousand eyes so brash and stormy;
The houses awry with windows in debt.
Turning my head would chisel the cracks;
For taking the time to survey each one
Would only inflame this cerebral tax—
I would gladly favor the night to the sun.
I want to be with you all of the time.
I'll rub and caress you to keep that shine.
When I feel the aura of your bright glow,
Helios you're for me, I 'm certain, I know.
All day I dream to come home to you each night
to feel supple leather wings hold me tight.
Although you are mine, I bought you out right,
I am only your steward to all in sight
Oh how I love your strength and raw power,
your color and sheen a brilliant golden shower.
The curve of your hood and slant of your hatch,
oh, they satiate an itch that no other can scratch.
Pressing the pedal I free four hundred horses.
I am thrown back and cradle by strong G-forces.
I firm my grip on your black wheel and shifter.
I ready for your speed you bad ass ripper.
Through valleys low and canyons deep
I savor each thrust, each turn, oh the benefits I reap.
I never want to go home just want to be free,
owning the roads of this nation, Helios and me.
As I think of something to write I found myself floating in the wavy currents of my
thoughts
I felt the cold wind embrace my whole being and made me shiver:
Summer is coming to its endas the clouds give birth to the vapor of rain,
Soon the once dry and craked visage of Gaea will be as smooth as the China
Soon the dust-covered foliage will be as shiny as the newly-sprout beans,
Soon the hot breath of Zephyr will be as cold as the heart of the Ice Queen
And soon the traces of the sidewinder will be a mere remnant of the past.
Summer is now getting ready for its farewell,
While the sky is now ready to shed its tears.
This is the moment;
Moment for us to nid farewell to the reigning sun
And start embracing the coming of the majestic rain.
Messages by sunlight
Light reflection, optical
Communication
http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/science.php
Have you come back?
Have you come back?
Please stay away.
I want everything to be okay.
Don't come back.
Please don't come back.
Please,for now,just let us be.
For this please don't hate me.
Don't hurt this.
Please,I beg of thee.
Just let it be.
The silk lines billow far out
in the thin sky
saturated with light blue sunshine.
I hold them together
in my left fist
on my hi-tech chariot;
my right hand twists
and we are loose from earth.
The silken lines undulate
over continents;
gallop the golden stallions
as I observe the people
releasing the flavours of their foods
the clench of cereals, the delights of fruit,
the iron of flesh, the sere of burnt blood
coming to me in a gracious sine curve.
It seems nothing has changed much
since the first chariot chase;
men still do not look
me straight in the face,
building dynasties on the sherds of others,
constructing palaces
to supply the noble rubble
on which to found new fallacies.
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