Short Prometheus Poems

behold fire
from
the
burning bush
yet
a gift 
from
Prometheus
God of Fire...

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Prometheus,
I see
This flames
In your eyes
Stealing fire
From the Gods...

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Eloquent May day
Sun shines on voice and vigour
Prometheus smiles
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1st May, 2016, Kolkata...

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where does
evil rest assure
but
in the hands
of our
advisors
administrators
magicians and
court jesters or
fire in the
hands of
Prometheus...

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To Victor Frankenstein, let's give a nod
Who was most infamous for playing God.
What he reanimated deranged his head
And left many that he loved all dead....

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This is your Captain speaking,
Captain James Curt, of USS Enterprise --

Prometheus, 
Steal fire from the Gods, and
We shall take this touch and
Build a ship, taking us to brand new worlds...

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Pandora,a lass with 'all gifts'
Let curiosity take her a step toofar,
When mankind's evil flew from her jar-
Only hope,inside,was to remain
Released,it's relief,to ease pain.


The myth of Prometheus/zeus/Pandora & her box...

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Who or what was he chasing at the North Pole?
Why is that scarecrow of a man so obsessed?
What tragedies have driven him to such extremes?
Is he the 'modern Prometheus' that the title refers to?
Just who is this Frankenstein character anyway?...

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The God’s know nothing
For the God’s are nothing
Their utterances are our utterances
Their actions, ours
We reclaim the fire of Prometheus
The destruction of Shiva
The might of Thor
The compassion of Christ
We are the god’s we imagine
©dbyrne march 2014...

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Stealing fire from the gods
Prometheus would yearn
And pass it off to humankind
whose banishment interred

Their feet into the glowing coals 
but faith out from the dark
Enlightenment a powder keg
—uncareful wishing sparks

(The New Room: September, 2023)...

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Words, triumphant
In this world,
Refuse to be silent
The voices from
Heaven speak loud
Bare witness to
This seal and
Royal crown
To subdue
The ignorance
Of man and 
Victory shall be ours
Prometheus bring us fire
Long live the King of Cromwell
This great empire and 
Ruler of this monarchy...

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Cottonwood sky
Men hunger to fly

We beat our waxwings
Against this innocent wind

Then, we ascend
To the boundaries
Of heaven

What beacon of light
Burst, as a flame,
From the warm hands of Prometheus

This morsel of bread
Shall feed hungry men

We fly, again
To the boundaries of heaven...

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There are many mysteries to where fire
came from; some say it is from Olympus,
stolen by Prometheus; others from the Sun,
by Ra’s fiery chariot, while others say it is from man’s
ancestors. Well, the one with the upper hand is the one
who discovered the flame of love, which hurts
the soul, when it is put out; the only fire
that can do so….....

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With the weight of the world upon my shoulders,
Like Atlas doomed to uphold the Sky
Or Sisyphus and his boulder-
On Pegasus to thither fly?
The Minotaur and its Maze, 
Medusa and her stony gaze,
Aries in a monstrous rage,
As Hades steals my Soul to die
Prometheus, who gave us fire,
Apollo and his golden Lyre,
Hera and her jealous ire,
And Zeus, who ignores my cries!...

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Dear  Someone,
I am a prisoner
But humanism has inspired me
I wrote in my diary
That while I will never be Ivy League
My DNA enables me
To change my criminal pedigree
Dear Someone,
My cage is draconian
But the fire inside me
Won’t stay ignorant
It builds slowly
Fed by the sciences
As censors try to silence the id
I’m from the school of Prometheus
Yours Truly,
A Humanist...

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The touch of lips- brief and soft.
There was no more grief.
This evening forever lost in memory.
Through the ripples of untroubled water, we sat.
The waves rolled closer.
Together we crashed by the pull of the tide.
Anxiously losing track of time.
The wave- thick, unforgiving. 
Retraced its step.
And I forever lost.
Forever inhaling it's essence.
Forever remembering that night with closed eyes....

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I remain, he surmised, the possibility of outcomes, 
I am, he collected, but particles upon their way
like a snowstorm towards a windscreen, I wait to
be a final measurement, and yet, to all miscreants 
in need of harmonious affairs, as Prometheus upon
his rock, as Nicorates in his right hemisphere of my
ever-seeing, I, the incumbent of waves gliding through
plasmas, he trifled, am never at rest in my somewheres....

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. for public domain

Her changes, swift as Bluebirds fly,
her ranges, lift notes low and high,
and yet she hobbles on the ground,
anchored low, like Prometheus bound.

The gods hold stealing no light task,
better without, than not to ask,
but she, not knowing wrong from right,
could only yearn, behold the Light.

She sought Love without a care,
and found she some, and some despair.
Looking back from her present state,
"Do it again. Don't hesitate."...

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I think
I would go mad
Someday

If I
Continue to read
You Poets

Like a
Drunken bee
I’ll fall

Fall flat 
With your
Heaves and all

To me
Each poet
A Pandora’s Box

By opening it
I feel like
Prometheus 

Your beguiling poems
Makes the snake
Come out 

I dance
To the tune
Of the charmer

I fly high
Up to the sky
Leaving the earth

And then
You slit my throat
I fall back

Back to the real
Back to death –
The ultimate

It’s my fate.

09.12.2016...

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