Six Poems

These poems originated from a trilogy of short stories I wrote in September 2015. The stories involved elements of Greek mythology, and this influence may be evident here.

Let his soul wither
Let his mind die
See the maple leaf quiver
Let his pearl eye
Break a thousand wonders
In his blundering sigh
Bring a thousand snipers
Not one jealous eye
Dusk on San Jose
Danger, decadence a lie
Yet never does the demiurge say
I shattered your mind’s eye

Chintkletko - 2265

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Chronos On A Hysteric’s Grave

Oh, for a glass of Courvoisier, old dead Earth
Oh for a cup of Peretè, in its purest
Ah to witness sudden light, another day
Oh before past and time itself -
Like Chronos on the hysteric’s grave
Laughing and flapping his wings -
Take flight,
And in grey mists, fade away

Eerinyae - 2107

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On caustic lakebeds,
Bare-treed forest-beds,
The diamond snakes
Their wretched forms know
Only of desire
And how to awaken the fool

To some end the end must come
Cries of a mystic touch the air
To some end the wealthy must come
That which was stripped bare
And has gone,
Yet will return,
Punisher of the strong
Avenger of the weak
Diffuser of the invincible

- Mikhail Andreich Samidov (1889)

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Beautiful garden, be forever cast away
No longer to be hypnotised by your wracking spray
Lost on an island, a stop on the way to Sicily
I saw embroidered Chaos incandescent in Hemera -
Her worldly presence pronounced by Gaia -
And knotted matter masking infinity

- Anaxatorokas (circa 520 BC)

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Beached
Maimed
And gagged before the tempest,
After the calm river is hooded
By the bridge of slaughter, peace,
Marooned forever

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Visions of mastery,
Echoes of Chaos,
Enclosing upon thee
Are vicissitudes of Kos

- Hirretikei (2048)

Author's Note

The authors these poems are attributed to are, I reluctantly admit, pseudonyms for myself