SPOTTED CHECKERED PSYCHE / #amwriting #poetry #sixwords

BUTTERFLIES


Spotted
Checkered
Sometimes
Nature wears plaid



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HEART FELT :: FELT HEART

MY VALENTINE

romantic sot
besotted felt
with cheer


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ENgraveMENT

"The ceiling up there corresponds with the richness of the human imagination"
- James Hillman

UP THERE

"...renewal of spirit occurs within an enclosed space
with some sort of ceiling"   ~James Hillman

spiteful spinster
drafty rafters
groan sinister

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notes

1. See the section on ceilings 79-82, 84. "The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire" ed Thomas Moore Great Britain: Routledge, 1989

WAKING ECHOES

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. -Pericles

AN ODDLY HAIR-RAISING JOURNEY

in mausoleum, sole
one's bottom chatter


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notes

1.  Etmyology of mausoleum
mausoleum (n.)  “magnificent tomb” [1540’s] from Latin mausoleum, from Greek Mausoleion, name of the massive marble tomb built 353 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (Greek city in Asia Minor) for Mausolos, Persian satrap [governors of  large, Persian provinces or satrapies are called satraps] who made himself king of Caria. It was built by his wife (and sister), Artemisia. Counted among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the Middle Ages. General sense of "any stately burial-place" is from c.1600.  [See etmonline.com]

2. The Mausoleum was approximately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and the four sides were adorned with sculptural reliefs, each created by one of four Greek sculptors—Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus. The finished structure of the mausoleum was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was destroyed by successive earthquakes from the 12th to the 15th century. [See wiki]


3. Pausanias adds that the Romans considered the Mausoleum one of the great wonders of the world and it was for that reason that they called all their magnificent tombs mausolea, after it.[see  Fergusson, James (1862) Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: Recently Discovered Remains London: John Murray p. 10.

4. List of “The Seven Wonders of the World” of which the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is one.

SENSING DESCENSUS

Etruscan vase ca. 525 B.C. depicts Hercules
presenting Cerberus to Eurysteus hiding in a winejar.

ROOT SENSE

a thought's heart
an impossible appearance

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THE RHYTHM OF EPIC

Homeric Musing  /Flaxman Design, 1899
see Homer, Iliad, Samuel Butler translation
http://www.ganino.com/the_iliad_by_homer_6

HIS WYRD

strict yet
flexible fate
Homer's dactyl

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notes

1. see Rodney Merrill, Translating The Odyssey
http://home.earthlink.net/~merrill_odyssey/id5.html

ODDLY HIGH JOURNEY #OHJ

HIGH GODS

ODDLY HIGH ―
TREASURE A NEGLIGIBLE OBSERVATION

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