I love mythology. I love using mythology in poetry. This was written for my Heart after he had told me of a love gone wrong. Very very very wrong. Medusa is one of my favorite “mythos” people. I have another poem started on her “why I chose Medusa for a name”, but it is sitting in a notebook waiting for my pen to reach out to it again.

Medusa’d Heart

Medusa has seen your heart
I weep for you
Crystal occlusions reflect your pain

Gorgons have sung to you
Piercing your soul
Sweet unbearable songs they are.

Feminine Macabre has danced on you
Skeletal arms holding you tight
You have a Medusa’d heart.

3/19/2000
Arwen Nightstar

 

October 22, 2002