Pythia – The Glory of Ancient Greece (006)

Table of Content:

• [006.1] Pythia
• [006.2] Princess
• [006.3] Achilles
• [006.4] Bucephalus
• [006.5] Thais

I. Pythia / Pythia (006.1)

Pythia

A blueish intrepid angel.
Heavenly eyes and all.
She looks in my direction,
leads me to her fall.

“Isn’t this beautiful?” she whispers.
A rainbow brightens her stream.
Paradise in the morning light.
‘Is this real or just a dream?’

Water falls from the mountain.
Returns to the river below.
She jumps into the pool naked.
Unfazed by winter and snow.

Torn between age and beauty.
I long to follow her lead.
‘Nothing in excess‘, Pythia whispers.
It pains me to acknowledge her heed.

Mako The Poet

II. Pythia / Princess (006.2)

Princess

You gaze, a lonely flower.
At the army that approaches.
Voices, horses, dust, stench.
You stamp on several roaches.

Spring has finally awakened.
A time when the powerful assemble.
Princess lisps the ivory girdle,
her world’s about to tremble.

Chastity encompasses her virtue.
Until big black canons arrive.
Balls pound the narrow gateway,
“Save your daughters and wife!”

Heathens stream onto the courtyard.
In search of those willing to beg.
She can’t be bothered to cook me a meal,
whips up an omelet instead.

Mako The Poet

III. Pythia / Achilles (006.3)

Achilles

A fallen hero is never sad,
but a poet sometimes cries.
Is it better to embrace ecstasy?
Or a fate where strength just dies.

How quickly youth and time fade.
How eager the ancient fall.
Countless dead on the battlefield.
Who will heed Achilles’ call?

Mako The Poet

IV. Pythia / Bucephalus (006.4)

Bucephalus

My favorite word is sunshine,
followed by pasture and suckle.
Sword and shield don’t mean to be bad,
just try to be cool like knuckle.

Elephants and Chariots both charging,
I think of chicken and chuckle.
Great and greed accompany my lead.
So let’s end with Bucephalus and buckle.

Mako The Poet

V. Pythia / Thais (006.5)

Thais

“Burn it down,” she whispers.
“Burn Persepolis to the ground.”
Alexander beholds his Companions,
before he gradually turns around.

“Why would I burn this city?”
“A jewel to my crown…”
His deference for the Persians.
Makes some among them frown.

“They desecrated the Acropolis.”
“You must become Hellas’ wrath.”
Oh to nobly conquer the known world,
only to encounter Thais on your path.

Mako The Poet

–

The timeless Wisdom of James Monroe, Fifth President of the United States:

“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.”

“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional means promote classical education, public debate, and a strengthening of courage, character and wit among the brightest of people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”

“We must defend our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.”

“If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.”

“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.”

“The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”

“The mention of Ancient Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.”

“Republics demand virtue. Monarchies may well rely on coercion and “dazzling splendor” to suppress self-interest or factions; republics rely on the goodness and good will of its citizenry to put aside selfishness and private interest for the betterment of the public good. Therefore it should be deemed beneficiary to instill a Historical Reference of Ancient Greece and Rome within the hearts and minds of future generations.”

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