by phillipw | Mar 29, 2020 | AG, AN, GR
Classic Clarity Who’d want to read the ancient poets, myth And tales, because of facts? Aegean blue And empty temples, ancient gravesites with A beaten gold mask may be facts and true, But true enough? Excited Schliemann sends The king of Greece a...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2020 | GR
Computer-generated Reverence Achaean gods and monsters have been morphed, Becoming Hollywood and cartoon hypes. These pumped up Marvel heroes lately dwarfed The deities now turned to hollow types In most kids’ brainscapes. Disney, Warner Bros, And animation rule...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2020 | AN, GR, SC
Unexpected Metallic Mental Images Imagine being naked, turned to green Bronze, appliquéd with gold growths on your chest, And trying to look calm. The metal sheen Of gilding, coral-like, has coalesced Upon the semi-gloss of sternum, mounds Of breasts, and upper...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2020 | AN, GR, MY
We Innocents, Maidens, and Virgin Lads Waiting for the Minotaur More than slightly puzzled in a distant way By artefacts from long-gone cultures, we React as people always do when they can’t say Exactly what the ancients then could see In their religions and their...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2020 | AN, GR, SC
An Infestation of Falsely Colored Barnacles on Thighs Like painted barnacles on bronzes from An ancient sea, our encrustations on Ideas from distant times and cultures come Between us and those statues from the dawn Of civilization. The Aegean As an emblem holds the...
by phillipw | Mar 21, 2020 | AN, GR
Primal Hymns “Though we are seldom certain that a text is accurate, though we cannot approach its sound, invent its musical accompaniment and ceremonial, join the general audience . . ., or affirm that something that is said is literally true, we do...
