by phillipw | Jul 8, 2020 | EU, JA, OR
If Orpheus Had Not Looked Back Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If Orpheus had not looked round, his wife Would not have fallen back to death. He would Have had her all his unheroic life. The Argosy...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2020 | AN, CO, HU, PO, RH, SC
I Have Looked upon the Face of Jolliness The ancient Greeks in poetry were lewd As limericks, playful, silly as a stand Up joker on a comic’s platform, rude And crude, yep, far more rude than Russell Brand. Emitted from these ancient rhythmic throats Were poems...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2020 | AN, PO, PR, RH
Heroes, Victims, and Poseidon The metre of ancient Greek poetry succeeds in “achieving a length and complexity that are unusual in the heroic verse of other literatures.” ~ Michael Grant, The Rise of the Greeks, 325, as quoted in Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 16....
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2020 | PO
Ha Ha Ha Ha Hacking (Pathetic) Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “A first-century Roman acquired an ancient statue of the comic poet Poseidippus (c. 316-250 BC). He had a local craftsman resculpt it...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2020 | UN
Gravity: the Greeks and the Old Testament How Hitler-like and heavy is the past, How wonderful and marble-like its weight Upon our brains and guts. The Greeks loom vast; The Hebrews, too. Their fires in myth frustrate. We can’t escape to newness. We are crushed...
