Short Scylla Poems

Short Scylla Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Scylla by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Scylla by length and keyword.


None Shall Keep Me From Your Shore

not height of waves that I must crest
nor pull of tides from murky depths
not lack of sun or moon in sky
nor compass lost to view from eye
not Proteus or dread Cetus
nor Scylla or Charybdis
not god of sea nor god of war;
none shall keep me from your shore
Form: Couplet


Librium Equilibrium

remains  of rehab
bottle   no  longer beckons
sweet   pills   give  surcease
scylla defeats charybdis
librium  now  liberates



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Librium is often prescribed by docts for Alcohol Dependence Syndrome (ADS) and often becomes an alternate addiction.
Form: Tanka

Tempest

He threw at her the black of night
And then the fire of day
Roared as of a hurricane
With avalanching speed

She crackled as a lightning bolt
Within a thunderstorm
And then unleashed – in torrents
The cyclones of her wrath –

With violence they wrestled long
And raged the heaving seas
Hurled the stone of Sisyphus
At Scylla and Charybdis

And in the tempest, tooth and blood
Together bested love –
Form: Sonnet

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