A Fool’s FlightIt may be one of the most poetic ending of all
Icarus’ fall, that is
Stupid, prideful Icarus
The boy who flew too close to sun and expected not to burn
He learned that things can be beautiful
But intangible and fatal
Everyone talks about his death
How greedy he must be to have the opportunity to fly...
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Categories:
mythology, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
One Way Ticket To Midnight, Lyrics
Ah — ahh — aaah — aaahh...
Ah — ahh... ah — ahhh...
Aaah — aaah — ahh — ahhh...
Ahhh — ahhh — ahhh — ahhh...
Let the final countdown begin
Proxy war in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia vs. Iran
India vs Pakistan
Sunni vs Shia
The 38th divide of Korea
China taking over the sea ...
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Categories:
mythology, betrayal, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Lyric
Can God Fight?
I beat the Holy Spirit at its own game,
Yet the heavens whisper, calling my name.
How many Archangels have fallen to me?
I count their wings—one, two, three.
I ponder the question, sharp as a blade:
Could God ever fight, unafraid?
No scripture speaks of His hand in...
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Categories:
mythology, angel, character, deep, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Dionysus Markets AsphodelMayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind.
So many burdens, all the Earth now mars;
So many pleasures, circumstance doth slay;
Enough, I say, of all of this, be done.
For what becomes of all your struggles here,
But...
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Categories:
dark, myth, mythology, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Slither
Categories:
dark, gothic, imagery, mythology,
Form: Haiku
The Diary Letter to BeatriceThe Diary Letter to Beatrice
(A lone voice whispers, as the right hand, takes careful notes)
In the deepest of silence
I always walk
Deep in thoughts, into my own created Maelstrom of Defiance
As memories of you appear slowly, like a wild moorland winter fog
Which slithers, rolls and returns
With a soft hint of a time that was...
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Categories:
mythology,
Form: Rhyme
two bodies one soulreversed and reformed repost edit.
once before humans walked the earth. before Adam and Eve before the trees and the air we breathe there was one-
one physical body with four legs four arms and two heads as well as one soul accompanied by one heart. as full of love and self as they could be....
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Categories:
mythology, allusion, analogy, angst, death,
Form: Narrative
As Autumn Falls, The Rise of the Elemmire, lyrics
Leaves labor in loam, roses endure the drouth’s weight,
From the east, petals peel, in soft drift concatenate.
Chariot’s beacon soars to the glint’s edge of tomorrow
To know, to grow, to sow, to go
Ooooh… ahhh… mmmm…
Aaaah-ooooh… ooooh-aaaah…
Mmm-hmmm… ohhh-ohhh… ahhh…
Oooh-waaaah… ooh… mmm… ahhh…
Brightly
Shiny
Threshing floor
Sacred door
The axis wobble
Eternal circle
Summer adieu
Seasons...
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Categories:
mythology, age, autumn, bible, death,
Form: Lyric
Improvised Altars
I cracked the olive pit
between my molars—
bitter pod,
black shrine.
The sea came through my teeth,
settled brine, at the root.
They said do not name the god,
so I lit her symbol
with hyssop oil and lemon peel,
dragged it across my tongue
like a net.
The temple was inside me,
sealed in salt.
Each time I wept,
I baptized
what I could not forgive.
...
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Categories:
mythology,
Form: Free verse
Is it Just a Dream?
The laboratories hum with cold efficiency, believing they command the future, their sterile corridors lit by the relentless glow of progress. A miracle, they called it—stitching together creatures torn from legend and nightmare, two extinct beasts merged into a single entity through genetic alchemy. DNA of long-dead beasts resurrected into new life—their ultimate creation: a...
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Categories:
mythology, destiny, dream, fear, fire,
Form: Haibun
Steak not AcetateWorking in another Homegirl
Working on orders Homegirl
Over the Border Homegirl
Over the Parchuka Essa
In the twilight
I love whos staring back at my eyes
And back in my life
On my back pages
I was thinking I was going
Through phases
Everything thing that aint a
Proper noun now
Everything is people and places
A comprehensive collection
Of th collect awareness
I was there when,...
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Categories:
care, mythology, rap, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
For Shining So Bright, You Burn Out and DieFor shining so bright, you burn out and die;
for soaring too close to the sun, you fall
to the hard earth below and crash: “Too high,”
judge the gods; so, as lesson to us all,
you're chastened for your lofty, prideful flight.
Like Icarus,...
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Categories:
mythology, destiny, fate, god, history,
Form: Sonnet
Baal god of Fertility and Rider of the CloudsBaal spent time in the underworld with the lesser gods
Learned how to make man miserable with the weather
Thunderbolts and lightning announced his earthly arrivals
Baal relished in the misery of lost sailors and dying soldiers.
He was a key deity in weather changes and stubbornness.
Thus, he was represented with a bull, ram or thunderbolt
Rider of the clouds...
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Categories:
mythology,
Form: Free verse
Purple Dreams in Other Realms Continued For ContestOnce upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;
I must confess, she looked rather whimsical
sitting there by a green wooden door, waiting for your lore !
...
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Categories:
mythology, 8th grade, dream, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
They Named Me ZeusFrom East to West
let my servant's trumpet
announce this victory
over those who defied me;
no Greek dares to fight me:
I am their uttermost deity!
They named me Zeus
and look to me for guidance,
I carry the thunderbolt
and I strike all enemies with vengeance;
they fell by the dozen
in the battlefield below Athens,
the ones who survived will challenge me...
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Categories:
mythology, character, dedication, endurance, history,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Mythology Poems
Definition | What is Mythology in Poetry?
Poems Related to Mythology
lore, belief, tradition, legend, conviction, mythos, myths, stories, folk tales, mythicism,