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Pandora's Box

Thought,

outside the realm of possibilities

Chaos …

beyond belief:

and great faith.

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greekgod   spiritual   metaphysics   nature   god   poem   poetry   poet   poems   mythology

Yami / ι—‡

You want me darker,

So you inflict the pain.

 

You want me darker, 

So my heart is where your arrow aims.

 

You want me darker, 

But a glimmer of innocence still remains. 

 

You want me darker,

But when I can’t love I am the one blamed. 

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Dark   Mythology

Shinigami ζ­»η₯ž


Why was I born?

My existence means little thus no one would mourn, 

Stuck in this caliginous realm where my soul is constantly forlorn. 

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God Of Death   Mythology

The Algea

 

A sense of belonging that’s foreign to me.

To be able to feel the warmth of love would bring a sense of glee,

But anyone I’ve grown close to seems to flee.

    

Left with the scars of abandonment creating emotional ripples. 

All whilst leaving my heart warped and feeling brittle.

Losing my faith in my dear Lord little by little. 

 

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goddesses   Greek   Mythology

Earthereal Enlightenment

What if the Sabbath weren’t a day
but a state of being
that permeates our earthereal Eden? 

What would you keep holy? 

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earth   Eden   Gnosis   Gnosticism   Gospel of Truth   religion   mythology   spirituality   philosophy   life   values

Poem about Prometheus

the fire is for You a beloved magic

which You are easy able to give to the people like gold

the love of the people is an overjoyed day-dreaming

dear Titan You like the people against Zeus deeply

the human-being made from tears and clay is admiring You

the eternal dreamer and the cloudy rider so delicately

thanks to humane skills – we know them anyway

with Apollon You go on a j...

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Prometheus   Mythology

Llyfnant

Under the yellow-green of sunlit beech

between banks of bluebells' hazy blue

where supple crosiers of new fern reach             

over verdant moss still damp with dew

a grassy lane runs beside the river

 

In the mystic quiet of a leafy dome

of grey bark ash, beech and mighty oak

a far cuckoo calls the dryads home

but we pass unseen by woodland folk

'til tylwyth teg w...

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Llyfnant Valley   rivers   streams   waterfalls   trees   woods   oak   ash   beech   fairies   tylwyth teg   moss   folklore   mythology

The Land of a Giant

Between the dark Ystwyth and the angry sea

We walked the cold stone beach

From the swirling river mouth

To the striated rocks beneath the southern cliff

Their upended strata pointing the way across Tan y Bwlch

Beyond the town beneath its northern cliffs

 

A Celtic god watches and menaces

Black Lugus on Pen ddinas Maelor:

We brave his fierce storms which shade our day

...

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beach   sea   storm   waves   flotsam   mythology   history   Celts   Ceredigion   River Ystwyth   Pen Dinas Maelor   Pen y Dinas   Tan Y Bwlch   cliffs   Lugus   Maelor Gawr   Lleu Llaw Gyffes

Prometheus Redux

Semper animus libera

 

PROMETHEUS:

O Thou that watches over all

And marks the good in man

Unnamed Godhead of all the thronging spirits

Who guard thy mortal worlds -

When skies darken and the plunging waves roil through

When the mountains themselves spit ruddy fire

And melt into valleys or crash steaming into the ocean deeps -

To keep thy people safe in those mortal li...

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Demogorgan   faith   Jupiter   mythology   Myths   old myths   praise   priests   Prometheus   religion

RETROSPECTIVE

i

Innocent

     he met a force

Untried

            it held him

 

 

... and wonder drained the world of substance

            re-arranged the pages of his book to give more radiant a reading.

                                                           

The light of new possibilities

pressed down on time.

The girl sang to him "You can hear the boats go by". He

l...

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Autobiography   Ceredigion   commitment   family   farm   joy   life   love   marriage   memories   mythology   navigation   oceans   sea   travel   Wales   long poems

February 2017 Collage Poem: Mythology

Lost in transition

Your words carried like a brief encounter

Emotion is the monster hiding outside the walls

 

Gangreen in suburbia and skinned alive

With donkey ears! Good Gods!

 

Occupations occupy stations on the wall

Barrymore paints the myths of time

To hang in Manchester as a quiet man

Tells of lost love.

 

Sonnets to art leave us lost

 

There's rumo...

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February   Mythology   Collage   Stockport Art Gallery

M A T C H S T I C K (revised)

M A T C H S T I C K

β€œAnd to his rock be bound eternal; forever gifting man all that is infernal.
Bound by chain, suffering as the eagle’s meal; freedom bought by the one who shall steal.
Unto the eagle’s beak his blood be lash; to control he who shall become our man of ash.”
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There is always blood flowing down Prometheus’ mountaintop. He who had delivered to hum...

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Fire   Ashes   Mythology

Dear Sigyn

Dear Sigyn,

you fool.

We both know he doesn’t love you.

Catching the venom meant for his eye,

silent even though he should cry

out in fury at your meddling.

 

Dear Sigyn,

you fool.

Even the serpent laughs at you.

I’d think your body was through

even if your heart was still into

an idiot’s errand that no one would rue.

 

Dear Sigyn,

you fool.

The end ...

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Mythology   Norse Mythology   norse gods   women   duty   love

Blue Flare

~~Orphan phantom all alone
Within reach from dusk till dawn
Scuttling limbs of Arthropods
Play the harmonious earthly cords
Bitter velvet in water’s core
Chanting monks, four by four
Angelic screams jogs the storm
As hounding harps rabbits their form
Burning icebergs cremating ghoul
Ecstatic mermaids make love to fools
Travellers boat, companion Charon
Spring has lost to Persophone
Ele...

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Greek Myth   Mythology   underworld   goddess   ghouls   fantasy realms   Fantasy   fantasy planet   fiction

Child of Equinox

It speaks, says they
In a form of perish
She sleeps purely
to only start waving
to them and their
little deformed spirits
Come closer, hence –

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ghoul   underworld   trapped spirits dancing   spirits   Mythology   Greek Myth

Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper

All seeing eyes
Guardian of the gate,
Sat atop
the stairway of skins.
Sewn together
with satyr hair.
Counting the days,
ticking them off
in a parchment book
with a pen on a string
twined with spider thread.

Sits in the sunlight
and watches the workers
to-ing and fro-ing
like ants on a hill
with their own little tasks,
while he has no legs,
just sits in a chair
wei...

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gatekeeper   keeper of souls   mythology   richpix   tower of babel   freemasons   banking scandal

Walkin' Man

The Walkin’ Man

For Pete Seeger (May 3rd 1919 – January 27th 2014)

Serendipity Spangle was a walkin’ man -
of that, there is no doubt,
he walked across great continents
and was seen round here about.
With his low slung jeans and guitar,
he had no need for fancy suits,
he just roamed the great blue yonder
in his worn down cowboy boots .

Those who were there at his birth
cross their...

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american folk tradition   americana   dustbowl   folk   music   mythology   pete seeger   protest singer   roots

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