Conversations at the Areopagus
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(The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.)
Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w...
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Categories:
orestes, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
...As a mortal man of threescore and five years...
I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, o...
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Categories:
orestes, age, america, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Bedlam Blues
...Cain killed Abel on a Monday night
Abel didn’t get a chance to put up much of a fight
Cain said, “am I my brother’s keeper?” God said, “yeah,” but Cain said, “nah”
Adam just shook his head and ru...
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Categories:
orestes, allegory, funny, murder, mythology,
Form: Political Verse
The Splice of Life
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“The Splice of Life”
When colour
was to be
washed out
of the world
the evil ones
didn’t care
the Actor led
with his
Dementors
either side of him
La...
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Categories:
orestes, humanity, political, religion, science,
Form: Free verse
Wimpole Street, Part 5 of 7
...The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind
as trained, acute and fertile as exists.
Imagine that your erudite, refined
creations top each year’s best-seller lists.
Yo...
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Categories:
orestes, london, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
...Imagine you’re a woman, with a mind
as trained, acute and fertile as exists.
Imagine that your erudite, refined
creations top each year’s best-seller lists.
You write in English, French and Por...
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Categories:
orestes, love, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
Electra
...Let me seek asylum in the sea
Silent depths of ice water,
For I have swallowed sorrow
Let me touch the clematis of a
Seaside garden,a patched wall
Sun-warmed and salted by the tide,
Orestes...
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Categories:
orestes, symbolism,
Form: Classicism
Revenge of a Nation
...Revenge of a nation
Sweet revenge for Orestes
For the slaying of his father
Pitied his sullen face
Cold and no longer with us
Killed with vigour
His betraying sword
Sacrifice to Neptune sayi...
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Categories:
orestes, death,
Form: Rhyme