Godhammer
Samson was a wild force, civilizing in his wake, pushing by his own acts his kind to extinction; his is the warrior tradition of Gilgamesh and Heracles — heroic, troubled; only one more corpse in the rubble.

Poetry
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Penelope

She sees the sailor thrown against the sky,
His death-mask silhouette
Proud and straight-backed; spirit high while froth
Gouting Scylla wept,
Turning on her tears.

Ten sly years Ulysses spun in
Calypso's pirouette,
While Athena's slick, apple-bitter wrath,
Her hatred not spent,
Kept burning out the years.

Noman, named the titan
Apocalypse, peer west,
Steer strong and bent,
And Telemachus, tell the time, mark no
Suitor swept by Argus's eye.

Hear the horrid harpy's caws
Singing to the loon;
Penelope with ragged claws
Clutches at the loom.

Mythology & Epic Poetry