Oedipus Poems - Poems about Oedipus

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 ...

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END TIMES : ONE [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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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--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...

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--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...

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--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...

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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...

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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...

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