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#28 (Free verse) by Lifeboatman

Ere Phoebus trespasses Olympus' court, Foremost in Her delight is Selene Cynthian arrows do not abort Their flightpasses of glowing beams; Shot through flightpasses of glowing dreams Twighlight showers of moonlight let grow The vanity of every midnight rose To bloom before they fade to-morrow To linger yet with life they had borrowed To be on Persephone's table on the morrow And while Hyperion is fond of his daughter So is Aphrodite's delight is in that child Thus no evening rose is born of ether But all of its darkness made mild All of its beauty left wild

SupremeDreamer 26-Jan-05/6:59 AM
Do you call everything that you can't understand "Shakespearian"?

It's poetic use of greek mythology... not too hard to follow, even if you don't know greek mytho, look up the gods mentioned and you should be able to gather the gist and direction of the arrow mam.

Nothing personal, I'm no fan of Shakespeare either, but it's not the dreaded Achilles heel of my existence, Zeusian electric grudge aside, that it personifies that which bewilders me.




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