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FOAL WEATHER
For Bruce Pennycook
Thus, in life, the most brilliant things are always next to the mass of shadows . . . -Charles-Joseph Natoire
He puffed his cheeks and roared
many hats left heads and soared
testing limits; collected them, oh
yes, he did; collected them
and hid
Then collected he a gal named Gale
loved her for her girlish wail
never ever would she fail
prevailing winds strive to prevail
she did
Serpent-footed, iced and aged
perverbial rattler, everywhere caged
everywhere frozen yet enraged―
Oh, Boreas! Stride winged & staged
amid
©2015 The Purple-Winged God stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
#lqw rattling proverbial cages everywhere, prevailing wind, many hats, testing limits
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notes
1. Hesiod, Theogony 869 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.)
"And from Typhoeus come boisterous Storm-Winds (Anemoi) which blow damply, except Notos (South) and Boreas (North) and clear Zephyros (West). These are a god-sent kind, and a great blessing to men; but the others blow fitfully upon the seas."
(It is here seasonal winds are clearly distinguished from storm winds)
2. Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 19. 1
"[Amongst the scenes depicted on the chest of Kypselos dedicated at Olympia :] Boreas, who has carried off Oreithyia; instead of feet he has serpents’ tails."
3. The Aurora of Boreas or Aurora Borealis, a god-sent kind and blessing to mankind is also called "magnetic midnight">
4. For the tale of Boreas and Orithyia see Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VI pp. 675-721
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