Oedipus Poems - Poems about Oedipus

...‘One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.’ - Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus While we’re in the vertiginous first throws of being in love, Cupid......Read the rest...

...Still wrestling with impasse to contentment Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog just me and mine dark shadow slinking along outer limits of the edge of night doth blog passivity, the p......Read the rest...

...Face of femme fatale, she soars across the sky, lionhearted warrior, asking all who catch her eye, ‘Tell me the creature, with only one voice, on all fours from morning, two feet by noon and......Read the rest...

...Wrestling with impasse to contentment Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog just me and mine dark shadow slinking along the edge of night doth blog passivity, the path of least resistance ......Read the rest...

...The garden sunlight plays tag with our fat ginger cat. Dad watches World War Two he grinds his teeth a general forced to take a back seat. Mother is in the kitchen not her natural territory. S......Read the rest...

...Why my mind flies in the blue skies? Why is what wroth warden wonders. Yet I stand handcuffed in a block of ice By the hands of time: my eternal threat. I am a fish inside a net; like a fly that ......Read the rest...

...Flying from out of the eerie world of spirits The Sphinx has come to crouch and pose : 'To close Pandora's Box solve the puzzle of Greed !' Trust not Luck......Read the rest...

...— This poem describes our journey from the reality of life to the truth of death. — The introductory “then” connoting ‘in medias res’ is reminiscent of the opening of Dante’s journey to the inferno ......Read the rest...

...I landed in an online dreamland with two more. You know these fictitious men with surreal fame; One dreamt of hunting a big phantasy fish for... And the other went on tossing a sky-high cl......Read the rest...

...Life’s a river; reading riddles it flows. In morn, he crawls, tiptoeing like a leech, Falling - kneeling, crawling in fours, he goes, Enters he second stage, all love ......Read the rest...

...We hang on hints or clues to see what's to come next; I'll cite examples as proofs from a well-known text. He that crawls in fours when rooster gleefully calls, Walks in twos like the blazing......Read the rest...

...vision of her is quite vivid, elegant in stance, style, substance, flash of smile, arms on hip rigid! my glance back at her was timid, fell in love with her twice my age!! was I shot - by cro......Read the rest...

...he dreamt of death sharks and apocalypse Poseidon on edge of waters and hence slept badly because of the fish and chips exhausted he drowned without any sense a jubilant sea horse marr......Read the rest...

...Shut all thy sensuous doors: Eyes, ears, mouth in thy mortal town Shut all doors, and draw blinds down, For thou live now in a world of wars. Shut thy eyes: thy front doors That Oedipus shut......Read the rest...

...Just me and mine shadow doth blog passivity, the path of least resistance oh my dog, an emphatic YES, a legitimately valid reason and rhyme to flog yours truly (figurative emasculation), thee ca......Read the rest...