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Oedipus love

Oedipus love
This love out grows if not handled properly
kind love ,patient love, sweet love, agape love
but Oedipus is contagious good but dangerous 
Bring the sickle and prune the garden.
only elites see the weed in the garden

How can a man keep his way pure and strong 
by getting hide into the word of the Lord or

Categories: oedipus, allah, allegory, allusion, care,
Form: Narrative

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[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world…This is how it will be at the end of the age…: Matt 13 : 31

I likewise

Categories: oedipus, allegory, body, change, deep,
Form: Free verse

Oedipus at Work

I'm reliving a page long unturned in my mind.
I'm jerking off in my teenage bedroom.

I had seen my mother naked
in the shower…

just a mistake, a matter
of an unlocked fate - nothing really,
yet that image lingers on
as a gatecrashing life-video.

I have prayed to that blank-faced reaper,
(he with his darkly tinted tabula raza),
for a clean reset,
or at

Categories: oedipus, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

King Oedipus: Foreshadowing

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 sun, but soon he falls;
Here's a hint, clue or foreshadowing to foresee
His fall from a life's precipice … and

Categories: oedipus, dark, fate, life, light,
Form: Rhyme

True Love

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 cross eyed cupid?

her sharp eyes lingered on my face,
she might read my mind like devil,
walks up to me all beauty, grace!

what

Categories: oedipus, age, anxiety, appreciation, future,
Form: Rhyme

Ms Oedipus

because daddy pulled your hair
I pampered you
saw the beauty in you too much
I let it efface reason
because you suffered, I let you 
play drama queen, and gave you 
the slack that I never enjoyed
but all you want to do is play.
because of your frailty
I jumped in for the rescue
enlisted a whole rescue team
but you kept

Categories: oedipus, dark, daughter,
Form: Free verse

Oedipus the King of Thebes, Iii

--Isn’t She a Daughter of Oedipus?--

Isn’t she Antigone? In search of a fallen prince,
who roams in the battlefield where the corpses of 
defeated warriors lie gruesomely in streams of blood.

Isn’t she Antigone? In search of a sibling who was 
rejected by a sightless ruined old homeless man at Colonus,
who walks through the middle of a

Categories: oedipus, allegory, anxiety, brother, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Oedipus the King of Thebes, Ii

--Who Has no Tomb to Rest His Soul--

After the long, long wandering in the wasteland,
sometimes by the sea where the roaring wind surges 
the waters, or times in the highland where the dews chill the bone,
and other times by the marsh where pouring rain lashes the reeds,
Oedipus the blind and ruined old man, led by

Categories: oedipus, allegory, anxiety, death, father
Form: Dramatic Verse

Oedipus the King of Thebes, I

--Who Is That Blind Man?--

I saw a sightless gloomy looking man
and two little girls; walking hand-in-hand
through the deserted field in the dusk.

The man’s eyelids were deeply sunk into 
the socket of the eye and lips were quivering 
from unknown fear, and even tears stood in his tightly closed eyes.

The little girls closely resemble to the

Categories: oedipus, allegory, destiny, father daughter,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Oedipus

On dusty roads he meets
a fearsome beast who speaks
in circles and rhymes and beats
"But Is man not the solution to the 
problems he seeks?"

Now he's the hero with a throne to claim
Beside the wayside where his father is slain
And upon them the truth heavy was lain
He discovers his lady mother's neck in a chain

Upon what

Categories: oedipus, death, mythology,
Form: Rhyme

Oedipus

Know thy faith
before it's too late
Go to the land where trees are filled
and there the prophecies are fulfilled

Seek for the one
...a blind man

Keep your faith
and close your eyes
for all are not lies

Categories: oedipus, adventure, dedication, faith, hope,
Form: Rhyme