Desperate Hope- Glowing Obsidian
...A light instrument flows, ink darkness; folded within
Flowers; a painless, healing, prescription of treatment
Such secure grounding, found; in glowing obsidian
Happiness; gives sharp antithesis...
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Categories:
tragedian, earth, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Villanelle
Joie De Vivre
...It all could have been less serious,
more fun and played with more exuberance,
but like the lone tragedian
with his oft repeated dramatic scripts
we played ii out as an adversity,
a roll call o...
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Categories:
tragedian, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Fixed Poetic Self
...In this complex box of world,
compact box of world,
where all are jumbled – fumbled,
where the mightier reign their voice,
others adore their choice,
how? how can I guide you to nail ...
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Categories:
tragedian, confusion, dream, identity, poets,
Form: Lyric
Tragic Relief
...I think I'll open a tragedy club
where people can come to weep
I'll tell the saddest stories around
admission will be cheap
I'll call the venue Tragic Relief
where heartache is the norm
and "...
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Categories:
tragedian, dark, humor, irony, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Falling Tragedian
...Fall, fall, and fall again.
You want me to fall and break my bones.
All while I bleed and play your middleman.
Sticks and stones don't hurt my bones.
Darling, you're just a fool.
You t...
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Categories:
tragedian, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Death By Turtle
...Death by Turtle
(An Eagles Snack Kills Aeschylus)
With light along the quiet beach receding
Sun and sand sink on obfuscated facts
Great tragedian figures don't live forever in the past
Along...
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Categories:
tragedian, animal, appreciation, celebrity, change,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Tears
...Tired of talking too much
I wish to rest my rhymes.
Now is time to give ears
To your titanic tale of tears.
The heart that was under constraint
Needs to be unburdened.
My grief-stricken lap wai...
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Categories:
tragedian, desire, destiny, life, love,
Form: Alliteration
Words
...Erato whispered in Man’s ears
poetic words that he could hear;
they are ancient as Greece itself
which became Man’s only real wealth.
Aeschylus heard her wordy waves
that sparked his tra...
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Categories:
tragedian, mythology,
Form: Verse
The Great Beauty
...The Great Beauty
by Odin Roark
How short lived
This laughter made for releasing
Buried in the tragedian
Locked in the universal clown costume
We
You and me
We might...
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Categories:
tragedian, life,
Form: Free verse
Double Acrostic-End Line Word-Immortal Persons
...Inside their souls grows an imagination turning concrete.......POETRY
Memory grows in fondness and nostalgia, remembering...........PAST
Mindful of time passing, migrating to unforeseen distance......
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Categories:
tragedian, imagination, peace, people, science,
Form: Verse
Melpomene's Melody
...Can thou's heart not see
The tragedy
Can thou's ears not hear
Melpomene's melody
This is not to end in despairing my lovesome
But to be a lovers tale
Never to be told by tragedian
Forsaken ...
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Categories:
tragedian, life, passion, me, heart,
Form: I do not know?