Black Holes, Chanting That Apollon Boreas Thing, Symbols, and Poetry

16 October 202016 October 2020 ~ kaye ~ 4 Comments

Apollon who gleams, who fills us up like a basin —what light within lightlessness?The ancients wrote that all could be illumined —but what illumination for the edge beyond which lightdances eternal with itself alone, bound and liberated,unseen by all, where space dances out timeand time ricochets oracular in the darkest stars?Does it mean that the … Continue reading Black Holes, Chanting That Apollon Boreas Thing, Symbols, and Poetry

Playing with Prosody

16 August 2020 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

Yesterday night, I started reading Alfred Corn's The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody because I want to better my understanding of it. Similar to how I sleepwalked through grammar classes in school and relied on intuition until I learned how to conlang, most poetry I write finds its form via intuition, not crafting, with … Continue reading Playing with Prosody

Some Verses from Prayer This Morning

26 July 2020 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

The first few lines occurred to me when I was praying to Apollon, and the remainder followed swiftly. The poem is free-writing because after I finished my prayer beads, I started thinking about the part of the Platonic Theology about Apollon and Helios (and so on); this is where it went. I often rush to … Continue reading Some Verses from Prayer This Morning

Four Drops of Bay Oil

5 July 20205 July 2020 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

four drops of bay oil three together, the fourth alonecircling as they twistedsmaller circle inspirallinguntil they pressed together in contactlike prayer hummingwithin the mindlight descending victorious When I prayed this morning, the drops of bay oil I gave to Apollon caught the light, three grouped together, the fourth alone. I watched the smaller bit inspiral … Continue reading Four Drops of Bay Oil

Verses from my Teens

6 June 2020 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

I spent most of today reading Acts of Speech aloud to do proofreading. At some point over the summer (not on the day I was aiming for in my annual goals, AKA eleven-ish days from now, because I don't know what I'm doing), the poetry book will be self-published, and I'll finally have a copy … Continue reading Verses from my Teens

A Prayer of Appeasement to the Eumenides

23 April 2020 ~ kaye ~ 1 Comment

Here is a prayer I wrote quickly tonight. It will be offered to the Eumenides tomorrow during a Zoom-based ritual, but I would also like to share it here in case anyone else wants to pray to them. The focus of the poem is appeasement for structural injustices committed by ourselves and those who came … Continue reading A Prayer of Appeasement to the Eumenides

To Apollôn Agyieus

25 March 202023 April 2020 ~ kaye ~ 2 Comments

A prayer to Apollôn about COVID-19. May our families, friends, and communities be as safe as the Fates permit. 💌

To Alexikakos

11 March 202011 March 2020 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

Verses written after contemplating Apollôn's role as the one who brings and averts plague and sickness.

Truth (a poem)

8 March 2020 ~ kaye ~ Leave a comment

What is this unstirring nectar,the gift we beg receivinga double serpent moving swift,laurel branches rustling,the scent of bay awakening,frankincense oil burning so delicateas if we inhabit a fractal floweropening up in vivid stillnessuntil it flows like that springstruck by Pegasus for the Mousaithat welled up to make all song.Is this nectar truth, yet ungraspable,so mind-tangible … Continue reading Truth (a poem)

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