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Multiplicity of the Self

...Man is a jumble of contradictions,
I know, a hard nut to crack!
So unfathomable, so mysterious-
at once a Satan and an angel.

To the outer world I am someone.
But in the well-guarded cellars o...

Categories: tantalus, confusion, identity, irony,
Form: Free verse

Limbo

...I stand on a precipice 
Eternal midnight shines above 
As reflected below
Eden, steps back
Close enough to see
I am Tantalus 
Step back
“Backward
And going backwards”
A flash and thunder
I ...

Categories: tantalus, conflict, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Sisyphus, Tantalus, and Ixion

...I feel like Sisyphus most ev’ryday.
A constant struggle carrying my load.
A punishment that never goes away
To push my rock down here in Death’s abode

How well I know just how Tantalus feels:
...

Categories: tantalus, depression,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Walter

...She stares into the casket
open, not what he wanted,
but she did, even more now.
“Stiffer than he’s ever been.”
she snickered, silent, unheard.
“O M F G thirty years;
look at you in your blazer...

Categories: tantalus, death,
Form: Blank verse

Auguries From Apophenia

...NOT incarnated in an unlight inside this Great Hookworm's duotoroidal traumedy-

NOR feverously skeined 'tween the Void's warp-weft over timeleft psukhai shivering-

NIL latency in thoughtfoam fr...

Categories: tantalus, allegory, dark, horror, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Any Change Is a Good Change

...It’s a hard, hard thing to conceal
When you live in fear of ‘the real’
A terrible thing is to feel
When you’re a wheel within a wheel

I look in your bright blue eyes
For a moment, I’m tantaliz...

Categories: tantalus, memory, music, pain, perspective,
Form: Lyric

Send Not To Know

...No favourites does lacklustre  death play
With equal fervour the doors
Of paupers and kings he strikes
Whether high or low
He does not care
At his summons
All must follow
To where their worldl...

Categories: tantalus, death,
Form: Free verse

Sisyphus and Tantalus

...I only wanted to cry so that I could cry out to you.
When I cried did you hear me?

I needed to speak so I could speak your name.
Did I speak clear enough for your ears?

I strived to walk so I...

Categories: tantalus, religion,
Form: Free verse

Stuck

...I’d rather be found,
on top a mountain
to see a landscape,
no artist could paint.

I'd rather be seen 
in clear blue water,
warmed by the equator,
no pool can imitate.

I want to sail ocean...

Categories: tantalus, adventure, freedom, social, society,
Form: Imagism

Heat

...Flies, drawn to their only sustenance, cloud around my head.
In this cloudless desert sky  - blank, deep-arching cavern of thought  - 
Unblinking  sun stares down but this fire-bird will not fly,
Has...

Categories: tantalus, adventure, water, water,
Form: Free verse

Behind the Plexiglass

...Dog food? What crime did I commit towards the Gods that as Tantalus I must exist inside this 
cage and be gawked at by my would be food.”Here kitty kitty” the plump morsel mocks. Do I 
look like a ...

Categories: tantalus, animals
Form: Verse

Tantalus

...Tonight a dark force enters my room
I will play with planets to decide
the course of my destiny.
A future has been tied to my past.

Such pain, strange exorcism, the evil spirit
stains the bed....

Categories: tantalus, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?

No Blessed Slumber Given

...Thou Death! To me no subtle thing
But of common visage, known,
Unto my days so well betrothed!
Yet in its clutches not Mercy's scythe
But cursed quill
Which no surcease permits-
And granting no...

Categories: tantalus, angst, hope, love, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue