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The Cavern Leading to the Muses

by | Jul 16, 2020 | AP, DI, GO, LI, ME, MU, PO, RH

The Cavern Leading to the Muses When Linus first invented rhythm with A melody in song, the beauty came Ideal — so lovely that a sacred myth Could not compete.  Apollo could not tame A thing so perfect, so he had to kill The poet.  Deity must never lose With humans,...

The Big Exceptions

by | Jul 16, 2020 | CO, GO, JA, ME, OD, PE, SA, SO, WI

   The Big Exceptions The women move in caged in places both In life and plays.  In poetry they are Curtailed to Sappho and Corinna.  Troth Constricts Penelope.  It hems.  No spar To take her seas away, she sits at loom, Is trapped at night unpicking her trapped work,...

Dissonance in Early Poetry

by | Jul 6, 2020 | JA, MA, ME, MU, OR

Dissonance in Early Poetry Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse The  primal poet sang at Jason’s feast, At Jason’s wedding to Medea.  Gods Are vile:  the marriage’s allure deceased As Orpheus’s melody, at odds With fate, began to fill...

Ancient Greek, Then Church Latin, Symposium, Scriptorium

by | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, ME, SY

Ancient Greek, Then Church Latin,         Symposium, Scriptorium Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Readers of Greek poetry constituted an élite, as in the Middle Ages readers of Latin did.” ~ Michael...