How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris
...How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.
An enchantress and a ...
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Categories:
telemachus, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
Telemachus
...Telemachus
Ask Telemachus!
Penelope is aware of your grief and glow,
Go on, don't feel low
You are her beach
Fly high and across every breach.
Ask him:
She lived with you in Ithaca
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Categories:
telemachus, dedication, imagination, light, literature,
Form: Free verse
I Am My Father's Son
...They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the table...
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Categories:
telemachus, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Thunder Kings
...The rains had come and washed away the old world,
the thunder had banged its drum
with a weary warning ---
' I do not come oft, but I return and weep
and growl a lion's roar ' ---
I will for a b...
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Categories:
telemachus, childhood, fear, storm,
Form: Free verse
Telemachus Two
...(Being Part Two of Telemachus)
But they trade mindfulness
for profit,
secret with laws dipped
and festered -----
great feasts -----
with few of seat
and dark their company
in beastly ...
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Categories:
telemachus, mythology,
Form: Classicism
Telemachus One
...***At the bequest of a friend
or two this poem is a
continuation of Tennyson''s
'Ulysses'; though I don't
expect much glory for this
write, it was one of my
finer poetic attempts;
especial...
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Categories:
telemachus, earth, future, mythology,
Form: Classicism
Travelled
...Many moons and many seasons have passed
since you journeyed faraway to alien shores without a word from you,
save a portrait of yourself clad in fine linen.
Every night, I see you in my dreams ...
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Categories:
telemachus, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
The Odyssey Redux Part I - From Trozan Shores To Aeolian Isle
...Now gather around, ye lusty lads, a tale I'll tell to thee
Of jealous Gods, monsters and ill-fated men who sailed the sea.
My tale is set in hoary times when fickle fate was by divine decree.
Then...
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Categories:
telemachus, adventure, fantasy, myth, mythology,
Form: Epic
Crossroad
...if the king of kings is here
yet unbeknown to we
a latter day odysseus
king of our kingdom free
i wonder if his queen of queens
is waiting for him where
her suitors dig their graves in such
a ...
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Categories:
telemachus, history, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Ebony Aphrodite
...Not even Tisiphone looming could invoke the fright this fury leaves etched across my spine
Olympus' indignation will not leave me in spiritual paralysis like She
(Shch, shch, shch) severing my Atlas,...
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Categories:
telemachus, best friend, care, for
Form: Free verse
Concrete Cliffs
...No form, no organization, no verse.
A crescendo followed by silence and screams.
A wooden home locked inside of a concrete tome,
With a world collapsing while we keep relapsing
And again the past res...
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Categories:
telemachus, fear, introspection, people, sad,
Form: Free verse