STORYHOUR : A Sea Glass Serenade #Friyay #mythopoetry

AND SO IT HAPPENED
True personality is always a vocation...vocation acts like a law of god from which there is no escape. -C.G. Jung

Archetypal Suffering  "The Development of Personality"
CW17, p. 175

Tear catchers popular once

among our womankind

whose men are lost in battle

during the Civil War; many

ladies of such mind

say tears of wives and daughters

are sacred much like holy

water

It makes me think of glassy sea & blues

that in their whitely singing foam

mermaids also knew

and of this ancient turning solid

suspending sadness in those tears they

drew—caring too, they might undo

the shipwrecked fates of men in lore

And, as if by some enchanted magic

pulled they underneath

the grey-green ocean

floor

swept up in varied colors thrust

such teardrops onto shore

©2017 Sea Glass Serenade stephanie pope mythopoetry.com

MERMAID-SINGING

Emissary of Olodumare
Ayaba omi o ~Yemaya-Olokun Yemoja, Iemanja, Queen of Water (Yorùbá)

 

WATERMAIDEN
For The Deborahs

in judge of honey
to the edge of the emissary come
to the watermaiden give account
who makes the uncountable count
going into the five

©2014 WATERMAIDEN stephaniepope mythopoetry.com
#ohj micropoetry emissary, judge #fivelines


notes

1. Scattered on the floor of the ocean lies the abundance, (the abundance of Olokun) Draw upon the abundance. From abundance, abundance; Let abundance re-main. It is said that where the watermaiden draws upon the abundance of Olokun, as an emissary of Olodumare, this abundance she shares with her sister –waters whose colors are yellow and gold and whose number is five. For more on the watermaidens and other emissaries of Olodumare see http://www.orishanet.org/ocha.html

2.  Mermaid-singing ― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock