Sisyphus Thinks His Rock is Heavy Sisyphus last week, Sisyphus this week, Sisyphus next week, too? That is how the pushing-the-rock-up-the-hill punishment goes, isn’t it? Just when you think it is over, it starts again. And Sisyphus can be a little…
Sisyphus Ponders Escape Here we are, back to Sisyphus, the mythological Greek king of Ephyra (or Corinth) who was condemned to push a boulder endlessly uphill as punishment for his sneaky deceitfulness. His punishment was overseen in the underworld by…
Deciding Not To This is a poem written about my father’s persistence in choosing life over death. Since it was written, unfortunately, Dad has passed on, though I believe he would have persisted if he could have. Deciding Not To…
In This Circumference, An Ode? – Poem of the Week Moving on from last week’s surreal No Pink Armadillo, we reach the space of lyric poetry. I could probably find you a solid, intellectual, definition of the lyric poem. But that…
