Sunday, August 18, 2013

HESTIA'S MAGIC HAIR

Charles Dickens makes the association of
the cricket on the hearth with human feel-
ing & actions linking this moment to one's
fate in his book  "Cricket On The Hearth."























Tonight enter her poetic interval
attend a cricket in your hearth’s deep song
Hestian plumes these fumes lumen
pneuma neither of gods nor men


©2013 “Hestia’s Magic Hair” stephanie pope mythopoetry.com


notes

1. One epithet for the Goddess Hestia is oily-haired. Hestia, in this sense, tends the interval/gap/space shaping "the real" or "femininity"  with characteristics belonging to the material imagination in the form of magical hair.

2. for the myth of Hestia see 
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Hestia.html

3. For Hestia and Mythopoetics see 
http://www.mythopoetry.com/dialogs/nine-eleven.html