Places Mythology Poems

He Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh”
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I.
He who visited hell, his country’s foundation,
Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places.
He deeply explored many...

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Hy-Brasil

Out a’high in lashin’ waves 
a’crashin’ anger’d sea

b’yond Albion an’ Hibernia
where mists a’shadow’d, lowly 

o’ magical Isle o’ Hy-Brasil
tentacl’d ocean beast ther’ tore

fear’d sailors away...

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The Greek gods were egotistic, arrogant, jealous,
Said to be excellent lovers, fanatics, and zealous
About everything and anything, lounged around
Adorning places like Marathona, the Acropolis
The Parthenon....

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I.	O my children,
	All the faithful,
	Heed the call,
	Hear the sanction...
	The ancient eldritch plea
	Gathering from the thousand shadowed places,
	Plazas, pagodas, pavilions...
	Reach out, summon in communal ritual
	The quencher...

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Dangerous journey, this,
    to enter and emerge,
    identical but not the same.
Void or Chaos, whatsis name, 
  ...

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Regged are the faces 
Drowning in waste 
Lost forgotten out of place.

Gold does not fade or decay, 
it knows no warmth or kindness
only filigreed in...

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Stumble across the threshold of memory into places I’ve known or unseen and only relived in deepest dreams…

Clutching the candle of revelation high, its silken...

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Of paper and Ink
Warriors of words written in a land
Of Blood and broken toys
Jet black things
Set ice plains and caviar
Standing long into the starry night
Eyes...

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There is no devil no Satan no Beelzebub above or just below your feet to me there is only Legion one of many one more...

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To your place, pass negative noon. 
As the moon drifts over the loss...
images of a different life swimming.
In the depths of the ones fevered past.
Catching...

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Dreams are thoughts in our head,
That invade our nights creating stories.
These places we've been unable to,
Remember causes our bodies to,
Protect us from those memories.
Those memories...

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VACCINATION OF THE NATION
Covid time is here. Folks are getting sick with its variants so deadly
and people all over the world are being locked down,...

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black boxes
I have seen these
little black boxes
stacked neatly in 
the back of my mind
while the clock stricks NINE
these little black boxes
of mine divided by time
keep...

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Drunk and insane 
feeling my pain 
sharp sweet 
I sleep and try 
to keep my thoughts 
in nice neat places
proper and complete 
propped up in...

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Lonely spaces 
we share in
distant places
Set apart
behind our own walls
Through the tiniest
crack I can see you
carried by the grand
hands of Chronos
An infant swaddled 
in your...

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