Thalia

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Thalia

Post by constantine » January 28th, 2011, 7:28 pm

Have you ever met Thalia?
Surely you would know it if you had.
She dwells within the giggle and tease
of a schoolgirl's eye, and
the whispering wink of a boy.
Her smile is as light and fleeting
as a dryad's step; her escapades
leave both centaur and satyr in her wake,
blinded by the glint, like the rippling and liquid
swimming radiance of silver-heeled Thetis.
With lips dreamy and red as the poppy,
flowering within your consciousness
to skip like a stone, flung
upon the watery vastness,
glittering minnows
darting in and about
the lace and lattice of flora, spun
like the song of Sirens, to baffle and entice
the fisherman, net for net...
and even in the throes of dark and implacable gloom
she hides,
within the nervous laugh of rebellious sorrow.
Have you ever met Thalia?

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Re: Thalia

Post by saw » January 28th, 2011, 9:09 pm

lush language and images, built for speed.........I sailed through it and immediately did it 2 more times.....its got pace and excitement......can't go wrong !
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: Thalia

Post by judih » January 29th, 2011, 12:12 am

roaring 20s flapper meets legendary myth

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Re: Thalia

Post by Sue Littleton » January 29th, 2011, 8:41 am

I have searched for Thalia, I have found her, I have been Thalia. Lucky me! Thank you for drawing me into this classically beautiful poem. ♥♥♥

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Re: Thalia

Post by joel » January 29th, 2011, 3:00 pm

...only in passing...mostly at parties where I haven't felt cool enough to participate...never caught her name, but might introduce myself more boldly next time....
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Re: Thalia

Post by constantine » February 1st, 2011, 4:08 pm

thanks comrades for your kind remarks

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Re: Thalia

Post by dadio » February 1st, 2011, 4:20 pm

impressive poem.

flowering within your consciousness
to skip like a stone, flung
upon the watery vastness,
glittering minnows
darting in and about
the lace and lattice of flora,
( excellent lines) 8)

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Re: Thalia

Post by Hollweg » February 2nd, 2011, 10:50 pm

Thalia – object
of my hearty perfervid
unrequited love.

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Re: Thalia

Post by Terri » January 17th, 2015, 5:44 pm

I've always loved this one, know Dino did, too. Wonder if he ever did it at a reading? Not a show-stopper, light and gentle. Even here though, his Greek myth references bring the idea of inescapable fate (big Dino theme...)
baffle and entice
the fisherman, net for net...

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