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LAST NIGHT IN THE SEEING POOL

Peeking through fairies
seeing through magic


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In SIX WORDS, or fewer, write a story about what really happened.

SPEAKING OF HEROES : THE LEGEND OF THE STOLEN CHILD

Image from 1870, "The Fairy Mythology"
 by Thomas Keightley, public domain

DEPTH'S DEADLY THINGS DEPART SECRETLY

adventure won underful
sung un d-meter

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Speaking of heroes, in SIX WORDS or fewer, write a story about saving the day.
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notes The hero story is a grave story in both senses of grave as serious and grave as burial mound. The hero's story is the story of the death of the hero as giving life back to people. Since 911 the image of the death of the hero has morphed to encompass images of the "death of the hero myth" signaling a revisioning from within the mythic image itself... The Taking of Persephone In Myth suitable for middle primary; it names the four dark steeds of Hades (Aidoneus). The four are Aeton (Swift As An Eagle) Nonios (Like No Other), Abatos (The Remote One) and Abaster (Away From The Stars or inaccessible) Greek classical sources naming the four black immortal horses (Orph. Argon. 1192, Hymn. 17. 14; Ov. Met. v. 404; Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 19; Claudian, Rapt. Proserp. i. in fin.)  Stephanie Pope on "The Stolen Child" more poetry Grandmother Eyes Movie Review: Pan's Labyrinth "The Heroine Low in Soul's High Adventure

THE FORGE IN THE HEART

Cupid's Forge, Edward Burne-Jones, 1861

FEBRUARY'S POETRY

In Cupid's forge
soul heats up.

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1. Assemble of Foules, Chaucer (Assembly of Fowls)

“Under a tree, beside a welle, I seye,
Cupide our Lorde, his arrows forge and file;
And at his feet his bow already lay;
And wel his doughter tempred al the while
The heddes in the welle; and with her wile
She couched hem after, as they should serve
Some to slee and some to wound and kerve,
Couched and arrayed in order sorted”

2.  During the Apollonic era of western civilization, Thalia retained the highest metaphor assigned as the era’s collective soul or inner image-pattern, “the music of the spheres”. The heart itself is a metaphor for the inner life of Thalia or soul-making's aesthetic, "poetic" sense. Each heart has its own intellect. One must bring one’s own intellect into Cupid’s Forge and into the service of Thalia’s psyche-making. And, as one can see from the painting, Thalia’s home lies within a fundamental darkness whereby Cupid’s crimson supplies bright love.

Then, too, I may suppose, should I lose contact with this soul of Thalia whereby a fundamental darkness roots me in the service of this other making, a making which allows her soul to displays its sense to me, the image of Thalia singing the music of the spheres would render—not Thalia but a Silent Thalia. I will not have heard her soul’s inner life singing within my heart its own soul logical felt-sense.

It is in such moments one’s own egoic desires must die back, become pruned like a vine or shorn like a lamb; one must become small again like a child in service to the inner life’s mastery and its space where her dark blossoming may bring new likeness into bloom and fruits in fleshed soul-making.

FEBRUARY HOODOO: "HARDY" AND "HEARTY" Oddly Heart-felt Journey #ohj

"...DESCENT INTO THE MYSTERY OF THE ARTICLE...SENSING THE CRUCIALITY AND THE MYSTERY OF THE INFERENTIAL 'AS'." - David L. Miller, Hells, p. 98

TO THY SANDAL'S LAUGHTER

I Sing! Your sly Hermes winged far-away boot
bring now in travels thy luck & thy loot

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