DAY #26: Taking Issue with Venus

It seems that lots of people have issues with Venus as Holst portrays her - Bringer of Peace. It has been interesting to see the many poems that have come in, making it clear that lots of people have a serious bone to pick with the goddess on the half shell.

Happy to share this one from the very talented Hypatia Pickens

Let Her Be the Evening Star

by Hypatia Pickens

Holst.

You have capitulated

To romantic error.

Venus is no “Bringer of Peace.”

Can you say that to weak Paris,

To Helen who watched, tearful, on the wall?

Born on the waves, they said,

Like all shallow love,

She's a suffocating sea,

A lying succubus,

Methane for breath, brimstone for hair.

Let her be the Evening Star,

Distant and fair,

Transported by celestial music,

But indifferent to your prayer.

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Poems can be submitted at the drop boxes on LEA 4, or by emailing them to caledoniaskytower at g mail (dot) com.

DAY #21: Saturn and Gratitude

The word is spreading about this project!  My thanks to Ryce Skytower and Ceakay Ballyhoo, both of whom recently posted about their visits to LEA 4.  (Ryce has done several posts, which you can navigate to from the one linked above)  

Thank you all!  Keep spreading the word.  We have a lot of poetry time left to go!

 Saturn: The Chronophage

A Sonnet by Hypatia Pickens

Had Dominique Cassini only known,

While charting the divide of Saturn’s rings,

That his namesake for twenty years had flown,

And now between those icy belts it swings.

Old Chronos, you consumer of the years!

For centuries you’ve strained our patient eye.

Then Holst transformed the music of your spheres,

And listening we watch our vessel die.

That science wasted time let no one say,

In sending our watcher into Saturn's maw;

It speaks eight hundred million miles away.

We did not conquer, but we came, we saw.

   Our art the god of time may yet devour

   But time and art will tell Cassini's hour.

"Earth Day," April 22, 2017  

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Poems can be submitted at the drop boxes on LEA 4, or by emailing them to caledoniaskytower at g mail (dot) com.