Tag Archives: greek poetry

If I were Midas

April 23, 2020history, love, poem, Poetrygreek poetry, love, Love poem, Mythology, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

If I were Midas
I would not touch you of course
But I would touch everything around you
Fill your life with golden splendour

If I were Homer
My next epic would have you as hero
Magnificent in your helmet and breastplate
Fighting on the shores by a walled city

If I were Leonidas
I would come back on my Shield
Having died defending you
And all we hold dear

If I were Clytemnestra
I would forgive you your war absences
And even Cassandra
I would stand by your side

For Tony on his Birthday

Friday poem: Blame Aphrodite

May 17, 2019Friday Poem, love, poem, PoetryFriday Poem, greek poetry, Guest poem, love, poem, poetry, sapphoThe Cheesesellers Wife

It’s no use
Mother dear, I
can’t finish my
weaving
You may
blame Aphrodite

soft as she is

she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy

by Sappho

Epitaph — a poem by Theodore Stephanides

November 21, 2018beauty, Life, poem, Poetrycorfu, epitaph, greek poetry, poem, poetry, polymath, Theodore StephanidesThe Cheesesellers Wife

“Let something of me still remain behind;
A verse a cadence, to outlive the clay;
Let some reflect, some glimmer of my mind
Recall the passage of my little day.”

by Theodore Stephanides, who should be familiar to all who love Gerald Durrell‘s “My Family and other Animals”. Theodore was a polymath—-both Doctor and aquatic biologist, and he wrote wonderful poetry. Apparently he wrote this, his own epitaph.