by phillipw | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Orpheus like One Crucified His music tamed a god and tamed the world Except for human hatred. Fiercest birds Orpheus by Astrid Zydower Rose up to beauty’s calmer heights. Love swirled Around the poet’s music and his words And animals around his shouldered arms To find...
by phillipw | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Orpheus Died Several Times and Could not Save Himself The intent is feeble like a hyacinth In rocks along a mountain path where feet Can crush. The intent is not a marble plinth Upholding steadfast Zeus. Intention, neat As it might be, is not the same as gain....
by phillipw | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Stretching the Eternal “the soul’s survival and residual divinity” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 23 The followers of Orpheus, if not The man himself, desired a lengthening Of all they thought was mortal, what they thought Could be like deities, the strengthening...
by phillipw | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Perfection, Life, Death https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0WTTch6DblZKRMAeBWe3olQ?p=nureyev%20jete&fr=yhs-iry- fullyhosted_003&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Ai%2Cm%3Apivot&hsimp=yhs-...
by phillipw | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Torturers: Eurydice, Women, God, or Boys, Finally That Orpheus had several deaths implies He did not die. Myths tried to kill him. Bad, They failed. The tellings of his deaths are lies. He drove, one story goes, the Maenads mad. Another said that jealous women tore...
