he wants you to stop light

Feb 25, 2008 00:02

For the longest time, I´ve been very fond of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in all its incarnations. & today I´ve been reading Margaret Atwood again (& listening to music that makes me very calm and quite sad). So:

Orpheus (1)

You walked in front of me,
pulling me back out
to the green light that had once
grown fangs and killed me.

I was obedient, but
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lit: interlunar, ink

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yelhsassim May 29 2010, 23:54:44 UTC
Yes! I've recently been transfixed by Aphrodite, by story of her birth. I even wrote a poem about the Greek Goddess' adventure.

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