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Tiresias

...In Greece there once lived a great seer
named Tiresias.  He had no peer
who could see quite as deep
while awake or a sleep.
So he purchased junk bonds every year.

Categories: tiresias, humorous, myth, mythology,
Form: Limerick

I'M Not the Forced Applicant

...of the world war (3rd!)
I'm not the forced applicant
I don't wanna be the forced applicant

of the world war (3rd!)
no; I'm not the well-wisher
not the advance receptionist

columnist, they a...

Categories: tiresias, humanity, universe, war,
Form: Free verse

Blessings and Curse Both In One

...Tiresias- the man and woman
was cursed by the matting serpents clan,
Passionate Hera
built his blind era,
Zeus blessed him prophecy with no fan!


-Friday, July 12, 2019 Chattogram...

Categories: tiresias, creation, pain,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Daisy May Brown 1891-1913

...Daisy May Brown

1891-1913

Minute by minute

I crawl on air, and

I crawl in the dirt amidst the worms,

Bracing myself strongly,

Waiting for the eternal dare.

Step forward dying one...

Categories: tiresias, death,
Form: Epitaph

Echo and Narcissus Part 1

...King Cephissus lured Liriope
.  To bathe and frolic in his stream
   Entrapping her she lost all hope
   His favours now she must redeem 
   Her ardent struggles came to naught
   He ravished he...

Categories: tiresias, myth, mythology,
Form: Rhyme

Tiresias, the Seer

...The tale now starts to fling enchant,
Let mind and heart surge piquant pun.
Seer of Greek lore strides in time lost,
Reminds of yore what foresight costs.


My eyes have seen the goddess bathe,...

Categories: tiresias, character,
Form: Quatrain

Funeral of a Surrealist

...Surrealist’s funeral is held in the air,
yet, his coffin is not carried by a supersonic speed plane 
flying through the open sky—altitude higher than the stratosphere,
gazing at the sun or a blimp...

Categories: tiresias, funeral, loneliness, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

Canto Xx Hell Translation

...Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open de...

Categories: tiresias, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

Tiresias

...The man who spurned two love-wrought snakes 
   In reptilian copulation
      The blind seer, auspicious he
   And his clairvoyant recitation.

Born a male and died a man
   But for committing ...

Categories: tiresias, recovery from...,
Form: I do not know?

If Love Does Not Live (Sonnet For Celene Crescent)

...If love does not live so that love may live,
Wrecked on rugged rock like a pirate ship;
Tiresias speaks to hearts—no love to give,
Darkness and void with no inspired lips;

If love is quashed sh...

Categories: tiresias, happiness, health, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet