by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Enough Trouble Caused When we began to put the gods in myth And language of the poets, transcendence Died. This literature became the smith That pounded, flat, godly ascendance To make them jewellery foil for our minds. They used to be so coolly far above Us that...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | OD, PO, PR
A Sacred Prize Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse Gods used to care about men’s singing love And poetry. A victory in song Made up of music and male words above The rest in contests was akin to strong Success in battle. ...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | Ho, ZE
A Second-Century B.C. Homer Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?param=66578q00.jpg&vpar=1911&zpg=78255&fld=https://www.forumancientcoins.com/Coins2/...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 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 | Jul 5, 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 | Jul 5, 2020 | AP
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 | Jul 5, 2020 | AR, ET, MO
Ancient Art Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse “the ancients had not that conception of beauty separated from goodness which forms the basis and aim of aesthetics in our time” ~ Leo Tolstoy A moral pillar rises from...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, ME, SY
Ancient Greek, Then Church Latin, Symposium, Scriptorium Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Readers of Greek poetry constituted an élite, as in the Middle Ages readers of Latin did.” ~ Michael...
