Iliad Poems

marvelling flowers

...marvel at the vigorous blade of grass,
resistant to the worst storms,
marvel at the dandelion, offering a thousand treasures
To the bees of the county,
marvel at the hemlock flower, which could
...

Why I Can't Read

...
     Once I thrilled to Homer’s Odyssey
        to his Iliad equally

     ‘Til I hurt my sacroiliac
         ~ and traded literature for TV
...

How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris

...How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.

An enchantress and a ...

REALITY HUNGRY

...REALITY HUNGRY

When others’ joy is merely peering over the wall
Those who relish real experiences, good and bad
The taste of life’s disappointments is as bitter gall
But for the lucky few, the ...

Greece and Ethiopia

... Greece and Ethiopia have had  unwavering and unbroken
        bonds of friendship since ancient times.
Greece is the land of freedom and democracy, also  one of the pillars
of worldwide civil...

GONZO STATION, Gulf of Oman, Northern Zone, 1980

...It had something to do with American hostages in Iran was all I knew.
Some political complication that required a showing of the flag.
But Iran had been our ally? I’d seen their sailors train at ou...

Sabali

...Sabali

Listen in,

The Solomonic thoughts of revolutionary minds strike like lightning in the rain, and prophetic missives pour from my spirit like Yah‘s word hit a vein. and I pray that when I ...

Lost Works, Part I

...I was reading Aristotle,
because I am just weird like that,
and as I poured through ancient words
I was presented with the fact
that what I read from classic times
saw far deeper then I can see,...

CONTEST TIME

...In the list I saw a new contest, entitled "A Poem Please."
At first glance I thought, "Is this for real or just a tease?"
The theme for this contest was just periods-punctuation.
I'd have moved on...

Odyssey of Hope

...Homer in his prime knew what was divine he sets out to woo the earth but his ambition was crumbed in the dirt, the Trojan War is an epic of past, love, power, hate, marriage, and crime; the Greeks an...

Brownian Motion Writ Large

...Brownian motion writ large...
within small medium 
as light brainstorm doth 
hail forth the following poem.

Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuron...

Of Homer, Iliad and the Fall of the Mighty Greeks

...Of Homer, Iliad And The Fall Of The Mighty Greeks

As the moon repents from its many vague allusions
And the splintered rains never rain upon true imaginations
What are we to think of those fools...

Derivatives With Limits

...Working over Birk’s Works and other tunes my saxophonist admires—
Cheesecake, Blackbird—for the theoretical, applied mathematics
inside an abstract, audial harmonization of the Big Bang and The Fal...

Curse of the Wisdon

...books stacked, spine horizontally allowing the title and author to be seen, cars facing the front, hood and license plate, people and trees distinguishable by height and hair or crown, the sequenc...

Warrior of All Time

...You are my empty page of love 
my double spaced sheet of solid white 
you are my blank canvass 
my heavenly shade of metal alloy 
and I am your Helen of Troy 
This Iliad of love 
contains spark...

• Short Iliad Poems
• Famous Iliad Poems
• Best Iliad Poems
• Read Iliad Poems
• Long Iliad Poems
• Iliad Quotes