Long Phoenician Poems

Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...

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They tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone 
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.

The crow saw the cost of the...

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John: Sounds like I might like to straddle her equator with my meridian and throw down with a hula hoop on each arm. How soon can I execute my commission?

Mitchell: Do you like to eat...

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As a historian I was focused, on the long record of writing,
Considered an expert in the field, I found it most exciting.

For countless delights have arisen, out of the written word;
And we only knew crude...

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Brutus Iulius Trois page 08 

Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced  the last pirate slain.
From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder
From men newly freed from their enslavement  to the Thracian...

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She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band...

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Spring doth bring
Pairing of the loons
Apples blooming on the branch
Lemons scent, as birds so sing
Woods so wet, never ceasing waves
The tides push madly, crashing
Upon the springtime waves
Chanting and ebbing out to sea
Life lifting music, concertos
Sound...

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(for: Those who go by New Tarzan) 

We have heard many of those lofty tales; 
Of her toying with our golden rule: 
Of her flying strength across the roads, 
When some fawning dogs of buses...

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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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As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep...

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now in his mind there are many gears
rusty but funtional.

they meter out the letters and create words
 that may even form a Structure from time
 to time.

 iron oxide filled metallic brown bullfrogs 
line up...

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All words and wonder, wobbling copper green
Foam and guano floating 
In the sea cave’s lee
A flock of gannets raucous on a rocky pile
And the ever-growing echo as the men came by
Climbed from the boat 
And...

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Ancient tombs, of long ago times
Byblos, the walled city, fortress and shrines
Shrouded in mystery, wisdom's, and thyme
The Phoenicians sailed from this very port
Their ships full of knowledge and the alphabet too

And the peoples from times...

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A long ago, during warm midsummer-nights glow worms reminded me
That constellations in the sky were not the only bright specks,
I’d run my life checks
Irregular but stern
As if I were a dying drifter
Who throws rocks left...

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For he had all the choices in the world
All the luxuries, the best and most sumptuous fare
All the wealth and splendor ... no bother nor care
Yet the backwaters and stable, not Jerusalem

He chose for my...

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ah, the @ sign---
once used specifically for
the realm of accounting,
meaning only “at the rate 
of”---it rose to fame in 1971
when raymond tomlinson’s premier 
email from the ARPANET 
soon translated into the iconic
latter day symbol for...

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There is a body stronger than the flesh alone
it is the body of your love, that temple built of desire's stone
quarried from the chaos of your erotic emotions, shaped by destiny's moan,
where neurotic nerves, psychotic...

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On islands beautiful
in the azure blue, boundless
live outgoing kings
(with no kingdom here).
Oh, my poor Phineas !
Madman!
Why did you let out the secret of the gods?
Are you passing now
your uneven tongue
on the sweat skin?
Aren’t you breathing...

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There is something about thy
Odor- almost infallibly refined
An awakening of the senses
A roasting of the oblivious mind

For never have I,
In feeling and thought combined,
Ever lusted for a complexity as such
Of a lover going blind

Even if...

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Wouldst thou for me an air
upon thy tortoise lyre
play, and sing those words so fair
about the Isle of Tyre?

Within whose walls so grand,
there at bazaar would be
hangings made by weaver's hand,
and colored from the sea.

And...

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Had Yahweh picked a palace for the birth
Of Christ, its splendored Solomonic worth
Would stagger calculation:  sheeted gold
Might overspread its cedar walls, and bold
Phoenician carved designs would praise the Child.
But who today would know? ...

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Perform Some Sexual Sin

Remember time we took a trip to Morocco,
And had stopped by there for terrific taco;
After that into time we took very long leap,
To see willow who always wanted to weep.

The next day...

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Blackbirds up against the sun.
The 4th horseman has begun.

The reign of terror.
By the insane light-bearer.

Lucifer is true to her,
Mother Earth...

Rising from the ashes
By the hearth.

Phoenician fireplaces
Within our heart.

The beginning is near,
No end to fear.

Come on,
Die...

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The Phoenicians
Past

From turbulent seas
rise mighty noble Phoenicians
sailors and masters in commerce
twenty two constant warriors
ancestors of our language
four vassals, thriving Phoenician pride
furnished the Persian kingdom
from the mountaintops
tall cedars , sculpted to fine ships
humanity forever
sleeps in Byblos
ancient...

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This that addles the brain
is not of opium or some such stuff
It has a special recipe :
Stardust and cuckoo eggs
slowcooked in the bile that rose in Cain
flavored with Phoenician almonds
chilled in the eyes of ...

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