Remember Orpheus and Eurydice

One Stop Poetry ~ Poetry Form Monday ~ Poetry and Myth ~ hosted by Brendan MacOdrum
Monday Form Challenge: Post a poem that is somehow based on a myth or folktale. Put your history into its mystery; you’ll discover the gods are still very much with us, raising all kinds of heaven and hell between the margins of the page.
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Beyond my clouds are your stars ...

A long
Long time ago
You drifted into the caverns of mystery
Some call death
But I was a child
And death was not a place
Or a friend
I knew well

In many dream sequences
I tried to wander there
To find you
To bring you home
But a dark
Wide river
Snaked
Menacing between
Me and thee

I saw a boat
A tiny boat
But the currency I carried
(Just a few pence
Moneybox scraps)
Failed to please
The ferryman

One night
The dream opened
A new stargate
I watched as I carried
Not pence
But a small
Aeolian harp
Playing musical oms
Each time I held it
Close
To my heart

I was by the wretched river...
Strangely
The waters were still
Like glass
Like a mirror
And the ferryman seemed
Nowhere

My father whispered my name
He was near
He told me to walk
To walk
And hold the harp close

I could not walk for long
Excitement
Innocent excitement
Spurred me into dance
Twirling
And whirling with my music
Our music

We were going home

But then
One whirl
Froze

I was alone

The whisper
Near me
Was gone

And the music
Died

Why...
WHY!!!

Our Lyra plays softly
Afar

Beyond my clouds are your stars...

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NOTE: My Orpheus and Eurydice poem links with Dean Regas' blog post Lyra the Harp ~ 15th September, 2010
This constellation represents the musical instrument invented by the messenger god Hermes. It has also been visualized as an Eagle or Vulture. Although small, Lyra holds many bright stars including the fifth brightest star in the sky, Vega...
Lyra, Orpheus’ harp remains in the sky as a reminder of true love, love lost, and why death is so hard to cheat.


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A Tribute to Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne"

To me, Leonard Cohen's song Suzanne reaches into the secret darkness of the yearning soul.
It speaks to the physical, spiritual and social conscience.

One Stop Poetry ~ Celebrating Leonard Cohen
+ One Shot Wednesday
Poetry Pantry #57

Among the sensual secrets of the soul is a longing to
Devour
Drain
An eternal flagon of
Nirvana

On the bank
The river bank
Remote
Tea and oranges
Earthy heavenly juices
Wines from
A river of
Real diamonds and
Gold
Wait

And there too is a new Siren
Suzanne
A blind girl
Blind to synthetic social scaffolding
A gypsy
A matchmaker
Twining
Humble heroes and
Seaweed from
Children and
Mornings


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Reach...

Rob Hanson's Photography
One Stop Poetry ~ Picture Prompt Challenge
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Poetry Pantry #53
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If only
Memories ringing
Draughty shed
Leather scents
If only my grandfather
Could reach for the phone


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Another Life Cycle

AWOWS ~ Wordle 3
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seaweed tugs evaporation mist tiny released breathes slides water supercedes river embroidered
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Poetic Bloomings #2 ~ Rhythm of the falling rain
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One Shot Wednesday #45
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Parched and cracked
The old earths with
A thirst that
Supercedes
Evaporation
Guzzled
The torrential magic of
Unseasonal rains

Ochry palettes
Released
Tiny tugs of green life

While from the mist of
Other times
Some legendary
Mother River
Breathes and slides
The birth of Water
Down to Father Ocean

But this was just
A passing sigh
The rains came
The rains died
The earth cried for
A little while

And now I gaze on
A lonely sea
Embroidered with
Murmuring
Silken seaweed
Like relics
Like memories
Then turn
Wistfully to
The muddied river banks
Fading
Like Eurydice and
Drying
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If thoughts could be...

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A stray dandelion by the sea at Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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One Stop Poetry ~ Poetry Form Monday ~ Blank verse
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A dream enchants a longing restless soul
That seeks the quiet signs in other worlds
Of listless shapes colliding on a quest
To break the monologue of dark discord.
If thoughts could be the breath of secret souls
Then somewhere someone senses equal minds
And words become imagined dialogue
Where understanding springs from clear insight.
So launch the seeds of wishes to the sky
And let them find the pathway to new earths.
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Sterile Lace

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A Dromana street edited in Picnik (just to suit the nature of the following poem!)
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One Shot Wednesday #42
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Strained
Streetscape
Sterile lace
Grand money craft
Everyone's wrapped in their own images
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*NOTES:
1. This poetic form is called tetractys....1.2.3.4.10
2. hedgewitch has written a stunning, Italian sonnet called Compost of Earthly Delights:
This nightmare of strange bedfellows slapped into a music hall sonnet of dignity is like a walk through a sideshow alley of freak shows! Fear and fascination keep us walking! An amazing piece!


One Shot Wednesday is hosted by American Poets Brian Miller, Leslie Moon & Adam Dustus and British Poet Pete Marshall

The Zero

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A clock in a shop window at Mornington
(edited in Picnik)
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Poetry Form Monday ~ Shadorma
My response to
1. Annie Welch's poem - Untitled - draft 2006
2. Dustus' Rainy Day Jersey
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Poetry Pantry #45
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1. The zero
That single second
Contains far
Paradise
When past and future scams burn
Frozen party trick

2. The zero
The scream that is mine
Coffee space
Lacks a soul
My empty drowning highway
My pen to glory
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Metal Tales

Photo by James Rainsford

Click on the photo to see a gallery of his photos

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One Shoot Sunday Picture Prompt
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Poetry Pantry #45

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A moment to hold the briefcase

Clenched

And look up

Shoppers on a mission for

Must have accessories

Text to text

Words
Travelling light

All connected by gaffa tape webs of

Oily inflation

(Imaginary of course)

And those who dare to dream
Another reality

May only see

Some pseudo

Heavenly stairway

In pseudo sunlight

A hunk of

Empty
Lifeless

Shiny metal

On the move

New pilgrims to a new Canterbury?

(P.S. I just have music in my ears!)

One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry
NOTE: hedgewitch's response this week rocked me!
The title of her post is Blue Nowhere.
A blue wind wheeling to a blue nowhere! Like a tinted reality! This beautiful poem scoops up the senses and lets them flounder, delirious in a delicious nowhere!


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Territorial Tribunal

Just For Fun #3 ~ Erasure Poem
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One Shot Poetry Wednesday #41
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A gathering of men and women
very rarely
visited by any leader


the tribunal of their own consciences


to form
a territory
of priceless value


fire
in solitary spheres




One Shot Wednesday is hosted by American Poets Brian Miller, Leslie Moon & Adam Dustus and British Poet Pete Marshall

New York Rhythms

Friday Poetically @ One Stop Poetry ~ Picture Prompt of New York
I will be on my way to New York to represent you, our poets and readers, at the Shorty Awards. ~ Brian Miller
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Large micro living
Crystal buzzing with spirit
New York vibrancy
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Sheltered by Light

Image by James Rainsford
Click on the image to view a gallery of his photos
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One Shoot Sunday picture prompt
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I eke out my days
Fashioned in yesterday's styles
Expression on ice

Curiosity
Weathering in weathered worlds
Like a lone watcher

Birds seem to need me
Passing perch for passing dreams
It's good to feel life

Sometimes I'm lucky
Wings cast a halo of light
I so want to smile
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One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry

Framework

Image by Sean McCormick
Click on image to go to his website
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One Shoot Sunday Picture Prompt
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Eroded living
Rocky memories cluster
Birth of new beauty

Open boundary
Landscapes in focal fragment
New unchartered frame

I was there awhile
A small stone like a small cairn
Perhaps you'll find me
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NOTE: If you would like to experience a wilder rollercoaster ride, read
Dustus' Entering Threshold.
My comment on his post: Dynamic! Like a torrent of literary minds and raw adventurers and those who need acting in their lives! All falling in some mesmerising heap leaving a mass grave at some threshold! This rattled me in an exhilerating way!


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Inversion

Image by Iquanyin Moon - Click on the image to go to Flickr photo stream
One Shoot Sunday picture prompt
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Gritty sand footprints
Inverted to
Dummy
Burial mounds become
Intimidating ancestors
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One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry

Vortex

Image by Mike Roemer. (Image links to his photoblog!)
One Shoot Picture prompt
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Reeled into the vortex of your moment

Your wine
Stilling my
Alternative realities

The simmering
Seering aura of
Your dark beauty
Mischievously
Unwrapping
My secrets

I feel like a goddess
Discovered
Elevated
Elated

Dancing in
The shamanic whirls of your
Exotic cigars
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One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry

Us

One Shoot Picture prompt ~ Image by Katherine Forbes
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Shadow connections
Smoothing corrugated worlds
Our secret mural

Our different shoes
Prime points in a pyramid
A frame for our souls

Facing each other
Shaping lone spaces with love
As one in blue jeans
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One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry

Carousel Insomnia

Created in Picnik by Gemma Wisemnan
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Carry on Tuesday # 88 ~ Our prompt this week is part of the closing sentence of the 1950 film The Glass Menagerie:
And that is how I remember them.........
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Haiku Heights #26 ~ Insomnia
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One Single Impression #151 ~ Carnival
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One Shot Wednesday Week #29

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Carnival insomnia
Sharp tinkle of carousels
Wind up and wind out

Bright musical lights
How I remember them
Shambles in flashback
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Haiku Heights is hosted by Leo


Hosted by Andrée and SandyCarlson


One Shot Wednesday is hosted by American Poets Brian Miller, Leslie Moon & Adam Dustus and British Poet Pete Marshall

Satriani's Music in Poetry

Pic created in Picnik by Gemma Wiseman
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Friday Poetically @ One Stop Poetry ~ Joe Satriani's Always With Me, Always With You ~ music prompt
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Soul strings in the sky
Abandon conformist shoes
Flying welled secrets

I give my lyrics
Reaching for yours on the winds
Our music always
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