The second part of my poetic series, The Muse Chronicles.
Polyhymnia was the Muse of Rhetoric. She was said to have brought fame to those who invoked her to aid their writing.
Sly Polyhymnia consists of three poems, In Sooth, Dream and Reality. Dream is a new addition, Reality is an edited version of The Act.
Come, come hither
Under the sun, sit thee here
Lend thine curious ear
Well will thee be rewarded
For thine time
And pen
The first part of a series of poems, The Muse Chronicles, dedicated to and about the 9 Greek Muses.
Urania was the Muse of astrology and astronomy. And is aligned with philosophy and the heavens.
Urania’s Reflection consists of three poems: Discerning (previously Wisdom), Definition, Distractions.
To sit on a mountaintop
Alone,
But not lonely
The stars
Reflect your ideas
If you would but receive them
Stories etched in time
Fables yet to be told
If you but look for them
Follow into welcoming darkness
Worry not your place
For the stars guide all
A Muse is nothing, yet everything
No one wonders their story,
And the Artist: so demanding!
The Muse must be energetic
Enthusiastic, ever helping.
Or else be cast in the Mud
A Muse must be ever self-sacrificing
Molding, adapting to the every whim
Of the one they’re inspiring
Or risk being called cruel, fickle
Simply teasing.
A Muse cannot be Earthly
Or humanly pleasures pursuiting
They must be lofty, ambiguously mysterious
Else the revered icon fall, shatt’ring
To the ground
The beautiful Creature, that be clamouring,
Be called Fraud
This is where I'm going to write about whatever books I'm reading.
