Luna Orionid

Dear MS,

Wonderful write! I really enjoyed this visual and the rhyming…I’m so envious. Loved the closing line. You’ve left a smile on my face. Thank you. 😊
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Thanks Honoria!

Just knowing even one smile was had with one of my poems makes it all worthwhile:)  

The skies were epic last night.

I was waiting! Your connection to the La Femme de la Lune is fabulous! Your knowledge of mythology reflects a scholarly attribute.

Thanks!  

Good, bad, or indifferent, I think the eighteenth century aristocratic obsession (and subsequently my own) for Greco-Roman mythologically based classical poetic stereotypes will run the risk of post-modern anti-patriarchal ire, but contemporary mythology based poetry popularity is a testament to the power of its lingering relatability in living imagination, as a sort of crumbling marble column of the collective literary mind; the old gods pantheon as proto-superheroes; that sort of thing. I love having fun with it, and find no use in taking it too seriously, while recognizing its lingering literary usefulness. I actually think a lot of folks subconsciously desire or miss the inherent stateliness of the classical influence, even as we guard against being lured into the sclerotic ideation of its ancient conventionality.  

it can be a valuable tool for the vocabular enrichment of all poetry, and is best exemplified by the works of A.E. Stallings, who was recently the University of Oxford's 47th Professor of Poetry. I really love her work, and the Wikipedia page on her has her labeled as a New Formalist, but all I really know is that I truly admire all well read people, no matter what their background may be:) I guess that makes her one of my she-roes:)

»where only proper spirits dare
to slow the hunter's meteors...
blazing through diaphanous gold
and quenched in stratospheric cold«
Love it!
and the surprising finish adds a perfect glister in the empyrean

Thanks, VB

I can never get enough of that lava lamp like flux interplay between moonlight and atmosphere:)