Muse Chronicles, Urania’s Reflections

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.

Discerning

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

Urania’s Reflections: Definition

Definition

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

Urania’s Reflections: Distractions

Distractions

The world has changed
The Artist with it

More gadgets
Less creativity

More lights,
Fewer ideas

Peoples creations fill the mind
Leaving no room for our influence

No escape
Nowhere to be alone

No place
To think quietly

No time
To develop