Long Minos Poems

So many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.

But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...

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Already was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,

When another, which followed in ascent,
Made us to turn our eyes to top...

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Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten...

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(Continues after part 1)

Stopped to talk, and then “Since his voice now dries”,
Told poet to me, “your time don’t lose, be fast;
But speak, and ask him, if like that more arise”.

And I to him: “Let...

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Often times I wonder if I may have missed 
a greater calling or purpose in my life.
As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical
when it came to asking the most important questions:
“Why am I...

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Oh you will leap,
all the losers leap down here!,
go beg in the boiling mud
the Prince is patient with pain,
go taste the bloody scum, go !,
move sucka!!!
Voooomph,,,,,,
feel the paddle blast...

I don't belong here, ouwah my head...
Why...

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Like a vulture, he came to my hometown,
To my hometown.
Just a little boy, I watched him
Knock upon the old wooden door,
To the old man’s house,
The old grizzled Moor.

In silence, the man in black fled down...

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Cont'd from Minotaur: Part I

When Theseus arrived in Crete,
he met a lovely maid.
She knew what death awaited him
and hurried to his aid.

She slipped a spool of silky thread
into his hands and said:
"Use this to leave...

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"The Circe Effect" (Part 1)


Circe, Goddess of magic, nymph, witch, bold enchantress
daughter of Helios, Sun God, her father, can you imagine? ... 
let me paint you further, the tree of this wacked-out family canvas -
daughter...

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I, who now sit alone by this barren shore
Looking vainly out to sea as if 
I thought I could espy distant Crete,
Have become a source of ridicule 
Among these lesser men,
Who strut and title themselves...

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A poem based on the Greek pantheon:


Zeus The Philanderer

Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, 
Maidens fair he did entwine, 
By guileful means he won their trust, 
Bastard offspring born from his lust.

With swan's guise, Leda he...

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There was a king in ancient Greece,
and Minos was his name. 
His kingdom was an island — Crete.
Enormous was his fame.

In Athens ruled another king
he too — a mighty one.
And once he was the gracious...

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Resurrecting Icarus
or
A Modern Moral Fable
by
Rick Folker
Kansas City, Mo


Daedalus claimed the sky,
Built a labyrinth from which
Theseus could fly
...
Minos enraged, entombed the 
Treacherous Daedalus in a tower
No sky could aide the architect’s power

On high
No land, no sea
Gave...

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In the shadow of moonlight
My cape pulled up around
Me tight, standing at the crossroads
Under the tree of life, eyes like fire
In the night...
I call upon the spirit of HEKATE
As thunder rolls and lightning strikes
She rises...

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In the shadow of moonlight
My cape pulled up around
Me tight, standing at the crossroads
Under the tree of life, eyes like fire
In the night...
I call upon the spirit of HEKATE
As thunder rolls and lightning strikes
She rises...

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look around
you can always
find a bread
crumb or
piece of
string

some have been
compromised
suddenly
stop
when
with any

food trail come
hungry animals
including people
unknowingly eat
what may have
led to your

destiny

victory in death
following back
the string path
after killing
Minos' son
Minataur

or from the cookie
jar crumbs that
may lead to death
in...

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LOVE’S UNKNOWN

From the Labyrinth
Love’s been great struck Daedalus
To that day on forward
No one could ever know
You are his love.  
Even unto Greek mythology
And from nowhere to cyber space you shall come!
In local mythology
You are...

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I live in a translucent room with no door
It has
floor-to-ceiling glass windows.
Like a two-way mirror
I can see out
But nobody can see in
I am trapped!

My life
is like a hut
in the middle of Daedalus finest maze
he built...

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This is The Dwell of Minos,
noble Castle of human wit and learning.

Minos, the King of Crete, so renowned for justice,
symbol of a noble soul.

Here, hidden stands The Temple
where The Sixfold Hexagon in two divides,
judges from...

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I am a god 
Ichor drips from the wounds you left. 
Like Zeus and Kronos, I will surpass you. 
I will rule everything you were afraid to. 
I won’t let the thought of you returning...

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