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I read about them
And lived-
in his mighty arms
and his passionate gaze
and their tragic romance
and fulfilled promise of never being
one without the other
Death can never be seen
as the end
to the undying eros
How I pray with all my might
that the oracles that spoke to you
were right,
that he has become a hero and
you will once again
meet in
the afterlife
For you have been destined for godliness
therefore your realms must once again
tangent and intersect
and intertwine
No queen nor goddess nor titaness
May ever purify, rectify
What has been melded
by fire
by a soul's desperate endurance
a coherence not even
Homer's Iliad could
so ravishingly portray
How I wish I was your Hephaestion
Where you would
leave your empire,
this world
Only to chase after my soul,
your world
And lived-
in his mighty arms
and his passionate gaze
and their tragic romance
and fulfilled promise of never being
one without the other
Death can never be seen
as the end
to the undying eros
How I pray with all my might
that the oracles that spoke to you
were right,
that he has become a hero and
you will once again
meet in
the afterlife
For you have been destined for godliness
therefore your realms must once again
tangent and intersect
and intertwine
No queen nor goddess nor titaness
May ever purify, rectify
What has been melded
by fire
by a soul's desperate endurance
a coherence not even
Homer's Iliad could
so ravishingly portray
How I wish I was your Hephaestion
Where you would
leave your empire,
this world
Only to chase after my soul,
your world
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Eurydice
His voice enveloped me, and I became
Myself again--I heard it in the song:
A mordent on a note he held too long;
A stutter in his voice. I heard my name
In these and felt a happiness the same
As when I saw him first. Oh, I had longed
To hear him sing again, but this last song--
It was so beautiful. And it remains
The best of human works, though none shall hear
Its sorrowed notes; the lyre's meand'ring tune
Through vast arpeggios and Death's expanse
Except the dead. It will not disappear
'Till all the world's destroyed, and hell's exhumed--
Such music must be worth a backwards glance.
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Forgiveness Economics
Genesis
But for the small purple stain on its border, the banknote was non-descript.
It had a value but men value things in different ways and by different means. It had a value, but its value is not it's story.
It landed on the church plate face up, coming to rest softly on the flat silver base amongst the loose change like it was tossed to the cloth of a gambling table, soundless but with a small sense of resignation. A man paying for luck, a man asking his God for a favor.
It came from the wallet of a small sad man, who feared the Good Lord daily. The banknote was the weekly price of his penance, the bill of sale for those half-remembe
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saudade
Last week, you showed up with the thunder on my doorstep.
Your voice was so drenched with the rain that I almost didn't recognize the way you said my name. It hung in the air like an incomplete sentence, like something unfamiliar, like you were so lost from trying to find everything we left behind and piece it back together that you couldn't find me in your heart anymore. It was pouring and the power was out and I was so tired of watching the world fall apart from outside my windows that I let you back inside my arms and inside my senses, and your bones were shaking as you clung to me and told me how good it felt to come back home.
There wa
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Alexander had a close emotional attachment to his companion, cavalry commander (hipparchos) and childhood friend, Hephaestion. He studied with Alexander, as did a handful of other children of Macedonian aristocracy, under the tutelage of Aristotle. Hephaestion makes his appearance in history at the point when Alexander reaches Troy. There the two friends made sacrifices at the shrines of the two heroes Achilles and Patroclus; Alexander honouring Achilles, and Hephaestion honouring Patroclus. Aelian in his Varia Historia (12.7) recounts that Hephaestion "thus intimated that he was the eromenos ["beloved"] of Alexander, as Patroclus was of Achilles."
No contemporary source states that Alexander and Hephaestion were lovers; historian Paul Cartledge writes that: "Whether Alexander's relationship with the slightly older Hephaestion was ever of the sort that once dared not speak its name is not certain." Alexander and Hephaestion were, in Fox's words, "exceptionally deep and close friends" until Hephaestion's death, after which Alexander mourned him greatly and did not eat for days. Alexander held an elaborate funeral for Hephaestion at Babylon, and sent a note to the shrine of Ammon, which had previously acknowledged Alexander as a god, asking them to grant Hephaestion divine honors. The priests declined, but did offer him the status of divine hero. Alexander died soon after the receipt of this letter; Mary Renault suggests that his grief over Hephaestion's death had led him to be careless with his health.
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No contemporary source states that Alexander and Hephaestion were lovers; historian Paul Cartledge writes that: "Whether Alexander's relationship with the slightly older Hephaestion was ever of the sort that once dared not speak its name is not certain." Alexander and Hephaestion were, in Fox's words, "exceptionally deep and close friends" until Hephaestion's death, after which Alexander mourned him greatly and did not eat for days. Alexander held an elaborate funeral for Hephaestion at Babylon, and sent a note to the shrine of Ammon, which had previously acknowledged Alexander as a god, asking them to grant Hephaestion divine honors. The priests declined, but did offer him the status of divine hero. Alexander died soon after the receipt of this letter; Mary Renault suggests that his grief over Hephaestion's death had led him to be careless with his health.
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I don't have much of a comment to offer other than I loved it. My favorite 'line' was actually the whole last stanza - not that the rest of the poem isn't great (it is) but just that last stanza sums it all up so well and it makes the whole piece come together beautifully.
You always have so much to say about love, and say it so well.
You always have so much to say about love, and say it so well.