Thebes Poems

Sappho Translations XV

...Sappho Translations XV by Michael R. Burch

Gaia, rainbow-crowned, garbs herself in myriad hues. (168c)

We ran like fawns from the symposium: me, Cleis and reckless Gongyla. (168d)

Destiny is...

Sappho Translations IV

...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 133
translation by Michael R. Burch

Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love,
brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos,
come t...

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

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Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler of...

Far-off Call : The Cry of the Writer’s Ink to an Anonymous Reader

...O some day to come, it may be that time will bury my memory deep as the hidden sleep of those who lie in some forgotten churchyard;
 but my judgment is that the future holds for me a fadeless crown ...

No Brave New World

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  In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, 
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, 
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness 
wronged-vaped, winged
to the w...

collective nouns: ten front teeth are seven thebes every day of the week

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homelands / husbands / playing house / strands 
& strings of horses behind strangers lounging 
un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women, 
depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective 
...

Ma's Soup

...'Dinner won't be long, Dear.'

Burt puffed up his pillows and squeezed one out.

'Better wash your hands, now'.

The armchair smothered his glee.

Wallaby faggots, 

Brown rice juices,

L...

Boweth Not Thoth When Thoth Thy Need Not

...O Scribes of Thebes, take the noose, burn fiercely the words of Aleister Crowley.                   
For all the wisdom of the hieroglyphic signs lies in union with only one cosmorat-the creator of ...

Zeus the Philanderer

...A poem based on the Greek pantheon:


Zeus The Philanderer

Zeus the philanderer, lust divine, 
Maidens fair he did entwine, 
By guileful means he won their trust, 
Bastard offspring born fro...

Memphis Belle

...I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof the...

Everyone Was Trying To Be Different

...Everyone was trying to be different
so i stayed the strange
hot or cool
i never felt
different is all of you
inverting spheres in the never where
electric jolt
as i lick upon a dream
inside a...

Elliptical Part1

...Canonical, orbit, elliptical, prodigal, crown

come back to me reasons and signs and be found in these

Stardust, Sirius, be the scourge of Thebes and of the Sirens of Hades on their knees

   ...

Colossus Riddle

...COLLOSUS RIDDLE
Watcher of Thebes, your watch has made me want.
I bring you death--Oedipus.
 I proclaim,
the very solving of your mysteries.

Now cast yourself to Hades, your beauty fails.
You...

King Tut's Curse

...Holographic forms formed life anew.
As colorful lives on walls came true.
These walls that held secrets from the past,
Ancient secrets hushed unveiled at last.

Hieroglyphs now waking with the d...

A Sad Story Told From a Battlefield

...He didn’t have a native land, 
therefore, he had no reminiscences of any sort,
neither good nor ill, other than reckless killing 
at the battlefield where he was compulsorily taken into 
and depl...

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