Author: Unknown
Take the advice of Terpsichore,
And look farther afield,
For another diamond in the gravel.
However, at day's release
Curl up to thoughts of her.
Observe the example of Aspasia,
And play the field,
And become one with the peacock.
However,guests at Sol's birth
Swim a sea of guilt.
Note the sadness of Ariadne,
And ignore the field,
To remain exempt from penance.
However, apply the restraints
And bathe in solitude.
Dionysian compulsion will draw thee back
To Terpsichore,
And while stroking her soft nape realise-
As always-
There lies home.
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Posted: Mar 2010
About this poem:
A life of love, lust and one's conscience
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Author: Ted Hughes
The bright mirror I braved; the devil in it
Loved me like my soul; my soul
Now that I seek myself in a Serpent
My smile is fatal.
Nile moves in me; my thighs splay
Into the squalled Mediterranean.
My brain hides in that Abyssinia
Lost armies foundered towards.
Desert and river unwrinkle again
Seeming to bring them the waters
that make drunk. Caesar, Pompey, Antony I drank.
Now let the snake reign.
A half-deity out of Capricorn this rigid Augustus mounts
With his sword virginal indeed!
And has shorn summarily
The moon-horned river
From my bed. May the moon ruin him with virginity!
Drink me, now, whole, with coiled Egypt's past
Then from my Delta swim
Like a fish toward Rome.
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Posted: Dec 2009
About this poem:
This is Cleopatra's narrative to the snake that will take her life. She equates Egypt's history and prosperity to the Nile. The Nile Delta is metaphorically compared to her sexuality. She used her sexuality to control Rome's most powerful men. But one is now taking it away from her (Augustus Caesar). She hopes her son will "swim like a fish toward Rome" thus securing control over Rome and restoring Egypt's prestige. But it was not not to be. Augustus slew her child by Julius Caesar, thus Egypt became a Roman province and has never enjoyed it's former power since.
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