Poem and photo, based upon the myth of the Greek goddess Melaina
and tiny souls will free Eurydice …
Eurydice and Orpheus were young and in love. So deep was their love that they were practically inseparable. So dependent was their love that each felt they could not live without the other. These young lovers were very happy and spent their time frolicking through the meadows. One day Eurdice was gaily running through a meadow with Orpheus when she was bitten by a serpent. The poison of the sting killed her and she descended to Hades immediately. / Orpheus was son of the great Olympian god Apollo. In many ways Apollo was the god of music and Orpheus was blessed with musical talents. Orpheus was so sad about the loss of his love that he composed music to express the terrible emptiness which pervaded his every breath and movement. He was so desperate and found so little else meaningful, that he decided address Hades. As the overseer of the underworld, Hades heart had to be hard as steel, and so it was. Many approached Hades to beg for loved ones back and as many times were refused. But Orpheus’ music was so sweet and so moving that it softened the steel hearted heart of Hades himself. Hades gave permission to Orpheus to bring Eurydice back to the surface of the earth to enjoy the light of day. There was only one condition—Orpheus was not to look back as he ascended. He was to trust that Eurydice was immediately behind him. It was a long way back up and just as Orpheus had almost finished that last part of the trek, he looked behind him to make sure Eurydice was still with him. At that very moment, she was snatched back because he did not trust that she was there. When you hear music which mourns lost love, it is Orpheus’ spirit who guides the hand of the musicians who play it.
I have no statistics but an overwhelming number of artists find creativity in the earth, nature and the Great Mother herself.
In celebration of the choice of theme that RedBubble have chosen for their current competition (which secretly I believe was my overwhelming obsession for myth subliminally working the pipes of thought), it is right and proper for us all to bow down and worship that who we as a creative force are most inspired by. I have no statistics but an overwhelming number of artists find creativity in the earth, nature and the Great Mother herself.
My paintings express tranquility and peace because that is what I feel while painting and it is something I want to pass on to my childre…
There once was a small Greek god, who fell in love with a goose. Why, I am not really sure…Why didn’t he pick me? Or that girl over there?
Fable about Olympus or maybe about something else altogether
Seifva was the gaurdian of the angelic world, Arc. he lost his life his love and his passsion but he gained something for all of eternety
The Cow-horned Egyptian goddess Hathor was revered as the ancient Queen of Heaven. She was the patron of dancers, the generator of light …
The traditionally composed paintings of flowers and Greek icons, express the peace, relaxation, and spirituality I connect with the act o…
is the plan after the / first few plans have failed//barring sleeping eyes from slumber//segregates pull for connection / to find balance,...
This is a line-up of the characteristics interlocking this world.
I gazed at a starless daytime sky / and marveled at the unique ’scape’, the sea / Santorini rippling down my spine / here in this place of …
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This crusader seared by the sun / Travels upon the countryside / Lost in the night, finding himself / From the stars he comes / A special kin…
With her / A war is won / Without / All but lost / Nothing is as Holy / This Goddess I speak of Theodore John Glendinning II / Copyright ©2008
“Younger brains are more apt to retain / myths left behind, when memory wanes. / The more scholarly hold a quarterly funeral / for Cuculain…
I’m a romantic, and I’m too busy to do much about it. The best I can do is put it into words. These are days when we have to be strong, courageous, and expand ourselves beyond our fears.
How my new logo was influenced and inspired by the spiral.
In the Greek play Antigone, we are faced with a conflict between religious or moral law vs. state or human law, represented by the equall…
An essay written by me for a class about a tragic Greek play by Sophocles, it is the continuation of the play Oedipus Rex.
Daphne, divine Daphne! I want to look for the slight / Cane that corresponds to your avoiding lips; / I will make a flute out of her and I…
my own translation of a poem by Ruben Dario, born in Nicaragua, died 1916.
Divine Intervention 1: Chryses appeal to Apollo causes the god to attack the Greek armies with plague. This intervention leads to the ang…
These notes are found in Bookrags.com they deal with the subject of Divine intervention in the Greek epic poem about the Trojan war, The Illiad, by Homer
fly-free words / with seizure / take shame, / Fire! creep, leap / crevasse floors / where Artemis’ arrows / dwell blind / and the hounds you …
Great Ursus dips close but / never beyond the world / gibbous Luna tracing light-arc / azimuth fall / Night perched ruffled before the / hideo…
Please, Sir, may I dissolve, / wind toes about the sand, / sink to where the world begins / and water begs / backwards, / sucks the travelling…
We went fishing in the Styx / just handlines / homemade lures / they say to speak by these shores / is to stay forever – / but we weren’t ta…
The tapestry began, aged twelve, / when you had the chance / to fuck this god / and declined. How coy. Now pregnant with woe / you se…
A black limousine is gliding along the famous Ritz Hotel on Piccadilly….
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