Icarus
We wait for signs
Linda Rushby 18 April 2021
and opportunities,
then jump at
the wrong time,
to soar like Icarus,
or crash to earth,
in a chaos of feathers
and melting wax.
Category: Greek mythology
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 15
The Curse
There is no choice:
to grasp the fire,
or cower in the darkness?
And from Olympus
comes Prometheus,
carrying the curse
of our salvation.
Linda Rushby 15 April 2021
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 13
The Box
Open the box.
Under the scuttling,
squirming, biting things
do you see
a spark
in the darkness?
You lost it many times,
thought it extinguished,
gave it up,
abandoned it.
Can you see it still?
Will it lead you back?
Linda Rushby 13 April 2021
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 10
Seeds
In the realm of Hades,
the tears of Persphone
water the dark seeds.Poised on the cusp
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of Life and Death,
holding the energies
of past generations,
in trust for the future.
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 9
Clotho
Clotho the spinner
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turns her wheel,
twisting the fibres,
drawing out
the thread of life
snaking onward
into the future.
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 8
The Fire
The fire burns,
warming, enticing,
images dancing.The fire burns,
crackling,
threatening.The thread is lost
beneath the ashes.Atropos waits,
Linda Rushby 8 April 2021
sharpening her scissors.
NapoWriMo 2021 Day 6
The Wild Dance
God of the grape,
Lord of liberation,
why do we worship you?Start the wild music,
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quicken our heartbeats,
summon our footsteps
to the wild dance of life.
NapoWriMo 2021 Day 5
The Golden Bough
The priestess honours
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the virgin huntress,
lifting the sickle
like a silver talon,
reflecting the light
of the curving moon,
and cuts the bough
of death and rebirth.
NaPoWriMo Day 3
Athena
Motherless girl,
her father’s daughter,
hacked from the head of the
wife-swallowing king.Goddess of wisdom
and Lady of Owls,Goddess of war,
Linda Rushby 3 April 2021
and mother of peace.
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 2
Pull the thread
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Theseus slew the monster
in the heart of the labyrinth
and followed the thread
back to Ariadne,
the sister of his prey,
while praying to
the goddess who
ordered her betrayal.
