assorted couplets

by Matthew Stokdyk

Orpheus’ Lament

Forgive me, please, Eurydice,
for hell has closed its gates to me.

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as prufrock

in his life the woman came and went,
wishing that her time had been better spent.

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leaving hades

soon we reached the other shore
and heard the distant cries no more.

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coleridge/wordsworth

a brain engulfed by chemicals—
a field inflamed with daffodils—

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world’s end

Siduri says to go back home,
but in Uruk I’m all alone.

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sins i

I have made no greater sin
than loving as I did

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sins ii

collapsing, then, beneath his sins
he smiled
at one last thought of him.

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epigram on a grecian vase

on the vase the maenad dances free
without concern for satyrs
or for me