Dear Eos,
I
wish I still felt passion in my heart toward
the generous soul that you are.
You always saw beauty in the world
and painted strokes of life
with a brush of sweetness and delight.
I
am sorry for the suffering life's put you through.
The heart is a fickle thing. It simply was not meant to be.
We've walked together but now our paths divert,
we take with us the lessons that we learned.
----Tithonus.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Categories:
tithonus, break up, life, lost
Form: Free verse
Over the hills I unroll my light blanket
Warming the earth
Reviving,refreshing and resurrecting
The sleeping colours
Where a solitary rabbit sits snuffling and still
Drinking in the sparkling rays of the sun
My palette painting his world
Bright,brisk and botanical
This is my destiny,this is my fate
To burnish,to beautify and to bless
What otherwise would lie dank,dull and dead
Out of sight but in my mind's eye
My one mistake sits whimpering
Gibbering mindlessly
Cursed with immortality
Doomed to shrivel endlessly
Making my memories
Of Tithonus,my lost love,
Cruel.
Categories:
tithonus, beauty, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
An ancient Greek named Tithonus
Got Aurora, his wife and a goddess,
To ask Zeus a favor,
That he live forever,
But forgot to add, also ageless.
Categories:
tithonus, humorous, myth,
Form: Limerick
So you return on silver wheels,
and the wheels are faster
than I remember them.
What memories you bring,
what joy,
what heartache, Brenda.
I had forgotten you 'til now,
but silver wheels still squeal
at the far side of my brain.
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"And thee returning on thy silver wheels" -
from "Tithonus", by Alfred Tennyson.
6/8/2016
Contest - Your own favorite poem
Sponsor - Carol Eastman
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Categories:
tithonus, absence,
Form: Light Verse
For the briefest moment His face shines upon you,
You are the center, the focus, all that is important in that flash.
In His gaze your are nurtured and grow to your prime,
In that single glimpse you see in His eyes the briefest image of what you can attain.
But soon, he begins to look away, you begin to wither.
The undoing lasts far longer than the flash.
Soon He has looked away; it was but a vapor as they say.
He looks away.
Life, He is a spirit of great charm, intoxicating beauty, but he is fickle.
The greatest of entertainers, the briefest of friends, the cruelest of enemies
shortest of all our acquaintances.
Inspired by Tithonus
Categories:
tithonus, allegory, angst, confusion, death,
Form: I do not know?
Beautiful Eos, goddess of dawn
Cursed to love a man like me.
How could I not be drawn
To your luminous beauty?
So I, Tithonus, Prince of Troy,
Plucked the fruit from heaven's sky.
A mortal man who would enjoy
Heaven's bliss with Dawn to lie.
My only love, I did beseech
Grant this man immortality.
Beware for what you reach
Can love last for all eternity?
In granting my wish dear heart,
Eternal youth goes hand in hand.
You did forget this crucial part
Now I grow older you understand.
What use is this immortality
If you are old and weak and frail?
I beg dear heart, set me free
Let my boat to Hades sail.
For I cannot live nor can I die
My love this is so improper.
Wipe the tears from your eye
Change me into a grasshopper.
In the early morn I chirrup to you
Goddess of dawn, my lovely wife.
You are the perfect drop of dew
On the fragile petals of my life.
Categories:
tithonus, imagination, lovelove, me,
Form: Rhyme