Tag: zeus
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In Bully’s Acre, still offerings of olives are left at the feet of the broken statues from Ancient Greece
The statues, busts, and freizes Zeus, Rhea and Athena Hidden like maidens behind screens changing, never again to take place At table’s head Disfavoured and yellowing now Stripped of their awesome power Removed then fashioned for exchange the gold that was their endowment Looking down upon us, then as now, denizens of menacing clouds Loud,…
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Plundering a Masterpiece
Numerologists praising lucky elevens and sevens Numbing numbers puzzling and unbecoming, potent despite Like witch-stirred potions brewed on rare moon nights, enabling flight Impossible by rights yet I thereby gliding despite Without spite, purely to satisfy and blight with blithe smiles One slight, short in height, a self nothing denied since it brushed motherthighs An…
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Stormy night scared of lightning
Riots in my bonce, in my human bonnet Writing by the light from my bronze sconce Sky alight, a Zeusian riot these past two nights Maryblue forks when Thor outrides Storm tonight no riders on it, writers love it Needy trotters greedily, gleefully smacking a typewriter’s keys, teasing Out a rough schema, the freehand sketch…
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Postolympiad
Back at the athlete village, booze stocks getting pillaged Locks knocked off lockers with rocks Two time bronzers running around with outed cocks Fiends open-throated usually confined to strict diet Eating like Laestrygonians, going everywhere All the Olymypians loaded, decoded off two beers The tools are at play, swaying on medalled feet They chat easily…
Alchemisland 