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Standalone poetry on mythological themes.

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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.
 

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Volume One

 

Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)

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Polyhymnia   The conspiracy at the heart of the Mythoverse.
"The Nine Muses - Polyhymnia (Rhetoric)" (1781) by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722 - 1789)
  "The Polyhymnia Conspiracy" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Atheism   There are always non-believers.   "Hard Times" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Persephone   Excerpt from a longer work.
"Red Pomegranate Seeds" by Jessica Lewis from Pexels
  "The Seventh Seed" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Kings   A short piece of advice for those who would rule.   "Ancient Wisdom" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Guardian Dragons   On the nature of dragons.   "Encounter the Dragon" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Hephaestus   The gift that keeps on giving.
"Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!" by Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen
  "The Lame God Can Barely Stand" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Tiresias   My thesis on who Tiresias was and what they represent.
"Tiresias in ein Weib" (c. 1690) by Johann Ulrich Krauss (1645-1719)
  "The Gender-Fluid Seer" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Actaeon   This is how the story could have gone down.   "Be a Deer" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Kvasir (Norse)   Hey, who let this Norse poem into the collection?   "Kvasir's Guide to the Galaxy" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Curse Tablets   More or less verbatim from an actual curse tablet.
Pella Katadesmos (c. 375-350 BCE) by Dagina (presumably)
  "The Pella Curse Tablet" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Hestia
Hestia Giustiniani (Roman copy c. 470 BCE of Greek bronze original) by Unknown
  Hestia is also the goddess of lockdown projects including this one.   "Goddess of the Lockdown" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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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)
  "Xanthus" in Poetry! (Mythic Verse, Vol. 1)
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Volume Two

 

Poetry volume 2 book cover

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