In the story of Patroclus
no one survives, not even Achilles
who was nearly a god.
Patroclus resembled him; they wore
the same armor.
Always in these friendships
one serves the other, one is less than the other:
the hierarchy
is always apparant, though the legends
cannot be trusted–
their source is the survivor,
the one who has been abandoned.
What were the Greek ships on fire
compared to this loss?
In his tent, Achilles
grieved with his whole being
and the gods saw
he was a man already dead, a victim
of the part that loved,
the part that was mortal.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Олег Карелин – Фото
- Middlesex poem – John Betjeman poems
- Tears. by Walt Whitman
- Arabia by Walter de la Mare
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5 poem – Alexander Pope
- Long Long Ago by Robert Desnos
- An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
- Couplets on Wit poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- All These I Loved by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: A Fiddler In The North:
- A Winter’s Tale by Sylvia Plath
- Autumn by Ramesh Anand
- Live Baits by Satish Verma
- 19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- The Worlds Greatest Smoke Off by Shel Silverstein
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
