The Song of Patroclus
...We shall meet at last, when
I am finally laid to rest.
You had to cross first, for you
witnessed my leaving, Achilles.
I wait still, in silence, to hold
thy hand in the dark below,
Alas, a...
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Categories:
patroclus, absence, death, death of
Form: Free verse
The Lovers
...-For Achilles and Patroclus, reunited in death
Alone, walks a soul upon the earth.
He stands before a memorial, knowing that is where his body lies,
But he himself has no grave; no reme...
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Categories:
patroclus, death, devotion, love, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Homer Translations
...Surrender to sleep at last! What a misery, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michael R. Burch
Passage h...
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Categories:
patroclus, beauty, god, home, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Homer translations
...Homer translations
Surrender to sleep at last! What an ordeal, keeping watch all night, wide awake. Soon you’ll succumb to sleep and escape all your troubles. Sleep. — Homer, translation by Michae...
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Categories:
patroclus, death, father son, god,
Form: Free verse
Epic Pursuits
...Back in the mists of time
Were stories sung
Where minds in thrall by minstrels
Were held
With tales revealing
Viscerality and viciousness
The currency of glory and shame.
Who does not mar...
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Categories:
patroclus,
Form: Free verse
For the Love of Apollo
...You were too beautiful for me.
Your song forever burning in my mind,
oh love, will they make a myth of us i wonder?
too light, too divine, too harsh
i was just a girl.
but my whole life i have o...
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Categories:
patroclus, anger, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Character
...Armour plated
Sword wielding
Grim determined
Heart beating
Friend and foe
Always leading
Is he man
Or God seething
Suited man
By clothes protected
He's the one
Best selected
Never losin...
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Categories:
patroclus, allegory, art, brother, friendship,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fluid Drive For Gwen
...Fluid Drive for Gwen
Sleep is a many splendored ring
[lostfully] lust in sleep’s [giant] silent loss.
rungs of ‘nipples, climbing...[
ladder] in [Vegas,...chest-quest
frost, first cropp...
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Categories:
patroclus, allegory
Form: Enclosed Rhyme