JUNE POETRY

POETICS & MORMO SPIRIT


Oddly, heroic journeys
invoke the bugbear―Hekate's
thrice darkened, titanic, chthonic
terrifying space;
at the end of each day
the end of one's solar world
deeper than night.

Inheres
the haunted kourotrophos
keeper to a rosarium Asklepian
containing the mormo, the reigning in
the antidote for what ails one.

#ohj Poetics & Mormo Spirit, stephanie pope©2013 mythopoetry.com

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Aristophanes. Archanians, 582ff. "Your terrifying armor makes me dizzy. I beg you, take away that Mormo ( bugbear/bogy)!"

Aristophanes. Peace, 474ff. "This is terrible! You are in the way, sitting there. We have no use for your Mormo's (bogy-like) head, friend."