The image is taken from Google.
A shining constellation of stars
making us feel they are ours.
Calming the sea for a sailor
in answer to their silent prayer.
Guiding the Zuni farmer
with little more than a murmur.
Girls of water, Maidens of ice
Oceans, snow, showers, frost- they entice.
Fluttering wings of a dove
flying safe from Orion's love.
May for Maia, beautiful and shy
The Great One, brightest star in the sky.
Electra gave birth to the Trojans
slipped away to deal with emotions.
Alcyone, a leader and a rival of the elder
but she turned a lover as Ceyx held her.
Taygete the companion of Artemis
potnia theron, had her lair in the hills.
Sterope, mother of a war God,
weakest she was, yet they applaud.
Celaeno, the faintest of all,
mother of two is all they recall.
Merope, a lost sister of the cluster
married a mortal, turned an outsider.
The Pleiades, a part of Taurus,
the seven sisters remembered in the Greek Chorus.
Note: I tried to write a poem using couplet style, but this poem does not have a meter. I am not good at scansions. I am learning to get the rhyming right first.
Also, the poem has full rhymes, near rhymes, and even vague rhymes.
The poem is about the Pleiades or the Seven Sister Stars. Each mythology has different versions. I used a few.
Wow! Each one of your couplets on the sisters could be expanded into their own poem. You obviously did a lot of research to write this. I especially liked the imagery and meaning of the doves and Orion. My only feedback would be to try to write the couplets with the same number of syllables in each line.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Nathan. :)
DeleteThis means a lot to me.
Definitely. I am still struggling with meters, so I thought it be easier to try the rhyming first.