Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Songlines: She




She

She fell from Aegis
as Pallas fled

She wheeled through the air
Rivers became ridges

She saw her Isle
No Stheno, No Euryale

She fell at last
From a lake, a valley bloomed

Beside the bramble
She wept her last

Her star-eyes flared
Dying, pulsating

Blinding

Her withered head
The wind swept to dust

A desert now
Where a great land was










6 comments:

  1. "A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization." -Aimee Cesaire

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    1. It does seem like a case of fight of flight blown to gargantuan proportions, doesn't it?

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  2. astig... all about creation! Songlines, indeed! :)

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    1. my theme was about withering...another side of creation. hahahaha.

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  3. I remember a Greek legend of some sort. But it was a boy, a son of Apollo who borrowed his sun chariot.

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    1. I believe that was the story of Paethon or something to that effect.

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