Theseus Poems - Poems about Theseus

...DEFEAT ON CRETE A folktale from which we have been recreated Remember that fight I’m quite sure you hated For this rematch, many centuries I have waited So keen and strong, now I’ve been resusc......

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... I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful." He further added: "No man can read the gos......

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...-For Asterion, who only became a monster because he was treated like one Throw him in the pit where he belongs, Though he was not born naturally evil: no one is. His mother had raised ......

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...What happened to my sex drive? (sung – in a round pussy willow warble - to the tune of -- Oh Where Oh Where has my little dog gone). Once pronounced libido of mine took kamikaze nose dive, ......

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...Beneath heavy eyelids woven from the shadows of the night, In the gardens of silence, time whispers questions through the ages, Why, amidst walls frailly built from the silk of longing, Do I inces......

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...Hi there! I am connecting with you in my mind. Can you hear me when you are? Every cell in your body is new, our Ship of Theseus! How dark is your world? Are you eating healthy foods? Ar......

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...Soli, Soli, then be Tacet! Soli, Soli, then be Tacet! Ossai,Ossai, Rubato,Tenuto Ossai, Soli. Adagio? Adagio: no, no, no ! Vivase! Vivase, Vivase! Da Capo! De Capo! Divisi, Cresendo,Cresendo!......

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...An old man ravaged by age His gangling frame impelled against the cancerous bark of the forever weeping willow Lined with wrinkles of time, his ashen face unshaven Cast down among creepin......

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...closed paths of me, drive me explore alleyways... . Blocked courses with no signs, impel me seeking safe shelters... . In the midst of flying feeling dizzy, half blind I follow in the......

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... "Keynote" "hand me your keys," she says smiling coolly into his breeze throwing getaway notes out the window the sharp beaked blackb......

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... Newlyweds Theseus and Hyppolyta are about to see a short play based on Pyramus and Thisbe. Performed by the Rude Tradesmen, it is a tragedy. The actors are Peter Quince, Nick Bottom, and......

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...Closed paths from me, impel me free paths ... . Blocked directions and no signs,ordering seek shelter insurance ... . Amid flying lost of dizzy, half blind I follow in my heart radar... ......

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...Ah, ‘Love’! a lover’s repeated mantra! I see me mutter it, just now, very now. Sigh I high, a busy, burning furnace, scrolling lines with aching, grieving woes; she, a charmed worm, wrig......

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...Cont'd from Minotaur: Part I When Theseus arrived in Crete, he met a lovely maid. She knew what death awaited him and hurried to his aid. She slipped a spool of silky thread......

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...There was a king in ancient Greece, and Minos was his name. His kingdom was an island — Crete. Enormous was his fame. In Athens ruled another king he too — a mighty one. And......

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