by phillipw | Jun 16, 2020 | AN, OR
Aegean Heat We look at Orpheus, torn on the ground. We try forgiving women and his wife For tearing at his heart and body found Among the barren olives. This one’s life Is deathless in the myth of love and sounds Discarded in eternity. We seek Forever to...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2020 | AN, ET, MO
Coldblooded Aegean “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9 “ ‘Why did the whole Greek world exult over the combat scenes in the Iliad?’ asks Friedrich Nietzsche. We modern readers do not even...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2020 | AN, PH
An Ancient Greek Trinity In Athens Love was placed in honor by Athena. There beside chaste wisdom, love Was set up on a plinth. The Greeks placed high In their gymnasia that god above Their bodies practicing for ideal power. Accompanying love there in that place...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2020 | AE, AN, ES
Ancient Art Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “the ancients had not that conception of beauty separated from goodness which forms the basis and aim of aesthetics in our time” ~ Leo...
by phillipw | Jun 15, 2020 | AN, DE
Apollonian Loveliness in the Lands of Eos, Trailing Robes “He would delight his heart while gazing at Their men,” those ancients, the Ionians, This visitor to Delos. They begat Their children later. Macedonians Would jealously desire them though if they Had seen...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2020 | AN, AT, JO
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unrecoverable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Athenaeus quotes more than ten thousand lines of verse in it, many not preserved or attested elsewhere.” ~ Michael...
