Greek God/ Goddess

Olympic Council:
Apollo
Dionysus
Demeter
Artemis
Hera
Zeus
Ares
Hermes
Poseidon
Athena
Aphrodite
Hepaestus

Other Gods:
Hades
Persephone
Hecate
Iris
Pan
Hestia
Morpheous

Rules:
2 entries per person
No more that 250 words per poem
Have Fun!

KALLIOPE (or Calliope) was the eldest of the Mousai (Muses), the goddesses of music, song and dance. She was also the goddess of eloquence, who bestowed her gift on kings and princes.

In Classical times, when the Muses were assigned specific artistic spheres, Kalliope was named Muse of epic poetry. In this guise she was portrayed holding a tablet and stylus or a scroll. In older art she holds a lyre.

Kalliope was the mother of the bard Orpheus. When her son was dismembered by the Bakkhantes, she recovered his head and enshrined on the island of Lesbos.

http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/MousaKalliope.html

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CALLIOPE PLEASE HELP ME

Calliope - the foremost of the nine muses
Calliope - the patron of epic poetry
Calliope - mother of Linus - inventor of melody and rhyme
Calliope - the eldest muse
Calliope - holding a writing tablet in your hand
Calliope - with your wisdom
Calliope - can you please help me?

Come - clear voiced Calliope
Come - Calliope - daughter of Zeus
Come - Calliope - admired for your poetry and songs
Come - Calliope - who inspired Homer to write the ILLIAD and the ODYSSEY
Come - Calliope - with your golden crown
Come - Calliope - come forth with your musical voice

Thus spoke Calliope:
     Poetry is the silent voice that is heard everywhere    inside us
     Poetry is a painting that speaks
     Poetry is truer than history
     Poetry liberates words from their definition
     Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by life
     Poetry is the autobiography of the poet
     Poetry is often a prayer

Voltaire said - Poetry is the music of the soul
Aristotle said - Poetry expresses the universal
Van Gogh said - Poetry surrounds us everywhere
Mikhail Dudan said - Poetry is not a profession, its a destiny

As for myself - this is my view
     - poetry lets loose my inner demons
     - poetry lets loose my fantasies
     - poetry helps me with my observations
     - poetry helps me sleep
     - poetry soothes my brain
     - poetry helps with my desires
     - poetry helps me deal with my insecurities
     - poetry liberates me from past abuse

So kind reader please be aware
     - my poetry is my saviour
     - my poetry keeps me sane
     - my poetry is not grammatically perfect
     - my poetry is just me

GREEK GOD/GODDESS

NEMESIS

Spirit of divine retribution
Against those who succumb to hubris
Distributor of fortune
In due proportion
To each according to what was deserved
The avenger of crime
There is no escape

Nemesis, dark-faced Goddess
Daughter of Justice
Winged balancer of life
Restrain the frivolous
Insolences of mortals

http://thanasis.com/modern/nemesis.htm

i love the nemesis poem

im so up for this challenge however i will not be posting until later

Pravus said:i love the nemesis poem

Thank you very much for your kind comment.

no problem somelikeithot

Jasmine05 said:im so up for this challenge however i will not be posting until later looking forward to it

will be definitely doing this challenge. Wont be able to do it til tomorrow though. :P

It's called letting go

I'll light up matches
to burn sheer longings,
memories, melancholies,
sorrows, blues and black
so i could have a night
with Morpheus again.

- Loved the competition!

hatredkills said:will be definitely doing this challenge. Wont be able to do it til tomorrow though. :P k will b looking forward to it

The Pleiades

The Pleiades,
The Seven sisters,
The beautiful daughters of Atlas,
Seven points of light,
Whirling forever across the heavens
In their endless dance.
Do you realize
We can see right up your skirts from down here?

lol love the last line... always nice to see alittle humor in poetry

Pygmalion's Meditation
 
Great Gods of Fate and Fury  
guide my hands and  
bless these implements  
 
as they attempt to channel passion  
into the making of a marvel  
granting warmth to an expression  
a tribute statuesque  
to the power and compassion  
you have somehow siphoned into  
this one dynamic form  
 
Help me  
Nay,  
Allow these hands  
to catch those sparks of shooting stars  
and place them in her eyes  
to hear an ardent heartbeat  
thumping out my name  
 
to put to shame and rest
all those hollow harpies
that sought to swoop, devouring
from my mortal breast
the life's blood and dreamed-of flesh
contained within this marble womb  
 
I shall name her  
... G a l a t e a ...  
Pure, perfect, and unchangeable  
My Magnum Opus  
and indulgent gift unto myself  
 
I pray thee, hearken, Aphrodite.  
For if you suffer man,  
give me but a chance  
to whisper you my wish.  
 
Give her life  
that she and I may share  
this time together  
 
I fear, without her lips' taste,  
that I shall waste away in pining,  
in denial  
that life could be worth living apart  
from the finest poetry of my craft.  
An ideal made manifest;  
the dream that should not die.  
 
Keep her young as I decay,  
hale and hearty as I fade.  
Allow me just this mortal span,  
this attempt,  
to love her as no other man  
could possibly assay.  
 
Are you listening my sweet?  
Can your spirit hear my pleas?  
I am anxious, trembling, waiting, wanting,  
to invite you to our home  
and I can only hope  
you are somewhere in this stone  

what no pandora?
thats the only god i really know about
well goddess, but is she a goddess?
i dont really know. . .
want to post, but my knowledge is so limited