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Saint Catherine Was ExcaliburI always said tether to the void
Not any idealistic reason or choice
Now suspended I know why I’ve been devoid
Because how can one speak with an inside voice
Where no one can hear you outside yourself
Dawn of...
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Categories:
mythology, adventure, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Form: Epic
Zeus's ComplianceThey thought so confidently that wintry brief days
would be over soon if Horae only agreed to appease;
and although they constantly pleaded with deep eagerness,
she wouldn't grant their wish but remained frozen by silence.
They should have...
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Categories:
mythology, allusion, betrayal, desire, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
A Forest MeditationA Forest Meditation
Today I choose to meditate
Away my anger and my grief.
The trees are so thick
I am lost in their green grace.
Black earth provides
A soft bed for my weary head.
A whisper of nearby water
Calms frail...
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Categories:
fairy, imagery, magic, mythology,
Form: Free verse
The Siren's callI do not know from where
the cloud came -- a chilling
din voice, knowing each name
a phantasmagoric display
the cheerful crew
succumbing to primal sprite
the day, soon a blaze, of stormy
thickening night
(darkened every Sun's ray...
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Categories:
mythology, evil, gothic, horror, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Spasm of the SoulYou see that valve beneath the tree. It is staring directly at Thee; you see the curb in the middle of the road, It is telling you how to be bold; walk a mile onward...
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Categories:
mythology, america, business, confidence, culture,
Form: Prose
Good Night Irene, Sweet Dreams("Dreaming Gaia", 2020, original encaustic)
Good Night Irene, Sweet Dreams
We live in a time of two competing visions;
The creation myths of sudden and gradual change,
Or monotheism’s creationism on one hand
And scientific materialism’s evolution the other.
Both...
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Categories:
mythology, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
The Monster He Became-For Asterion, who only became a monster because he was treated like one
Throw him in the pit where he belongs,
Though he was not born naturally evil: no one is.
His mother had raised him with...
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Categories:
mythology, child, corruption, death, innocence,
Form: Free verse
He Said His Name Was HeliosI burn, though, just for a moment,
your eyes, new, on my skin,
flushing pomegranate,
embarrassed,
as I dally,
to your cue.
"Helios", you said.
I, the last of morning's dew.
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Categories:
mythology, beauty, desire, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
from the bottom of tomorrowyou crawled from the bottom
of tomorrow withered beneath
my feet the smell of forgotten
earth arose bountiful cruelty
emerged my mind craved awful
goodness standing before me
a hidden figure moving behind
the darkness...
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Categories:
mythology, adventure, anxiety, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Lips Curl At Your Fiddles(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever)
Grandiloquence,
mellifluous pulchritudinous,
gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity,
bile deluge if you show the sanguinary breath,
crimson waterfall sizzling on lava rock hellscape.
Yclept necrophelia maestra,
macabre tableau,
dips douse abyssal incarnate,
now...
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Categories:
mythology, anger, beauty, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Ram or RavanRam as we all visualize is vibrant light, purity, gentle and charming.
Ravan on the other hand is darkness. evil,hatred and always harming
Back in mythology we learned that it can be a choice made by our...
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Categories:
appreciation, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
the rain goddess
Categories:
mythology,
Form: Haiku
Silver EagleThe eagle has grace and flair as She soars up in the clouds
Up and above them clouds she climbs as she eyes a quarry
Strong in her wing as effortless she spreads the swift is she
A...
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Categories:
mythology, analogy, animal, appreciation, extended
Form: Blank verse
LilithLilith
Veiled in the moon’s ethereal grace,
She emerges from her shadowed place.
A crown of black roses adorns her brow,
Each thorn a reminder of the pain she must avow.
In the moonlit meadow’s misty embrace,
In the air, night-blooms...
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Categories:
mythology, dark, desire, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Lilith
The first independent woman
created by God from dust,
and placed in the Garden of Eden,
turned into a hot fiery female of fantasy.
The first wife of Adam,
she got banished from Eden
for disobeying his masculine domination.
In...
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Categories:
evil, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Mythology Poems
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