Odin's Song

The hunter dreams a dreaming
of time
that forever kind of rhyme
But We, the sisters seven, hum
that thrum
of Heaven on Earth
begun

The hunter pleads
Their case
an Apollo-gy
an effigy
a systematic
retreat
redirected
thru defeat

Do you recall Our names
Asterope, Tageta, Maia,
Celaeno, Electra, Alcone
and me...
Merope

And do you recall
the game We play
upon the opal flame
the game
of names

Honey and Ice
and everything so nice
as our ancestors sing
that celestial ring
of frost

The making of men
- time and again -
into the duramen
the evermen
our noblest
of brethren

For the Kalyug
has come
to its bitter and unwilling end
its last paragraph
penned

the last of its hymns
opined
like yesterday's
rind
the grind finally over

leaving us all effervescent
and blooming
like clover





X
06/18/2024



Dedicated to:
Aratus of Soli

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