Poetry!
Standalone poetry on mythological themes.
About the Series
Short takes and one-off poems on mythological topics. Some may be based on puns. Some may be based on modern pop culture. Some may reference current events.
Shorts! is a poetry series, collected from the mind of Greg R. Fishbone.
Periodic Updates
...unpredictably.
Volume One
Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
Polyhymnia
The conspiracy at the heart of the Mythoverse.
"The Nine Muses - Polyhymnia (Rhetoric)" (1781) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722 - 1789)
Persephone
Excerpt from a longer work.
"Red Pomegranate Seeds" by Jessica Lewis from Pexels
Kings
A short piece of advice for those who would rule.
Tiresias
My thesis on who Tiresias was and what they represent.
"Tiresias in ein Weib" (c. 1690) by Johann Ulrich Krauss (1645-1719)
Kvasir (Norse)
Hey, who let this Norse poem into the collection?
Curse Tablets
More or less verbatim from an actual curse tablet.
Pella Katadesmos (c. 375-350 BCE) by Dagina (presumably)
Hestia
Hestia is also the goddess of lockdown projects including this one.
Xanthus
The Iliad has no wooden horse, but it does include an immortal talking horse that could predict the future...
"Automedon with the Horses of Achilles" (1868) by Henri Regnault (1843–1871)
Volume Two
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