Sunday, January 11, 2009
Like Lovers of Zeus (poem)
Yet More Poems to the Invisible
3.
Like Lovers of Zeus
When I come near you,
I fall backwards
in my joy.
There are waves
flowing
around your body,
scent coming
from your flesh.
If you held me
in your arms,
I think that I
would perish,
the way the lovers
of Zeus
went up in an
invisible flame
after the first glance.
Dorothy Walters
January 2, 2009
Semele was a mortal woman in love with Zeus. Despite his warnings, she used a trick to lure him to come to her “in his full glory.” When he did so, she was immediately annihilated by the fire of his lightning bolts.
Like Lovers of Zeus
When I come near you,
I fall backwards
in my joy.
There are waves
flowing
around your body,
scent coming
from your flesh.
If you held me
in your arms,
I think that I
would perish,
the way the lovers
of Zeus
went up in an
invisible flame
after the first glance.
Dorothy Walters
January 2, 2009
Semele was a mortal woman in love with Zeus. Despite his warnings, she used a trick to lure him to come to her “in his full glory.” When he did so, she was immediately annihilated by the fire of his lightning bolts.
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