Thebes Poems - Poems about Thebes

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

... 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 ......Read the rest...

...'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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...