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
- The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath
- A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- A man toiled on a burning road by Stephen Crane
- The Fiddler Of Dooney by William Butler Yeats
- Perfections. by Walt Whitman
- Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers poem – A. E. Housman
- Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: To A Mountain Daisy: On turning down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
- A Subaltern’s Love Song poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Address To The Toothache:
- Николай Некрасов – В тоске по юности моей
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – По городам Союза
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
