To open your eyes and find Cerberus
A most horrifying thing indeed
Staring down on you with eyes bright
And sharp enough to make you bleed
Three heads wavering wildly
Drool slavering over his jaws
Your meek and fragile body
Incased between his massive paws
Your eyes seeking across his continence
Mechanically seeking his worst head
While all your old fears become foolish
And your last lifeblood is bled
Then at last dream and waking separate
And Cerberus is no longer dark or fell
But only my own eager dog
And my personal hound of hell
Author notes
Well... what can i say, i'm in an odd mood today. Perhaps this isn't what your looking for, and don't worry, i won't die of sorrow if you DQ it.
A contest entry
- Do you know your Mythology? by grrlshadow.
525 points, ended March 17, 2007, 8 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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This is a great mythological character, and you've certainly done it justice. Line 9, I think you're going for "countenance", not "continence".
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wow, totally wonderful, twisted sigh in morning wisdom
i just love how you wrote. maybe yer in a weird moon when you wake up or later on when you wrote this, man, but it is well written, flows like butter and the poor Cerberus knows you have his number, horrible as he is, he is, as you have found, a figment, as is mythology, but figments are part of our special mind and has a visceral hold upon our imagination. your poem is wonderfully aware of this and is so well written that i was simply drawn through it happily even though i have no idea who this beast is, or didn't, but do now.......... i will read it again. ,,,Danni
your writing is well done, in fact, really really cool and stylish.
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just letting you know, if you'd like to enter another poem in this contest, i fixed it so you can...
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definitely not a DQ, and i wasn't looking for anything in particular. i do like the way you've done this, and i love the twist at the end! good luck in my contest and thanks for entering!
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Remarkably good flow for something quickly strewn together. I take it you don't have a pug. :-) lol
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No... not a pug... lol.
Actually, she be a border collie X (crossed with what, i don't know, but i have theorized she has some Cerberus in her ancestory some how) One only need walk her once, and upon seeing the approach of a car, person, dog, or moving object of any other nature, prepare of the pain of a shattered wrist/dislocated shoulder/seperated tendon, and then watch with frustrated amusement as with most rapt speed, she takes off towards it, hits the end of her leash, and completes several sommersaults, backflips, and cartwheels in the ten seconds she is off the ground.... I kid you not... and though there is some scottish blood in me... as well as irish, norse, french, english, italian, and american indian (just in case you were interested) In this instance, i use NONE of the exageration for which the highlanders are so reputed for.... She is insane, i refuse to change my story. -
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I can testify to the truth of this statement! lol. Though she be of the dreaded blood of the Macneills of Barra, she do speakest true.
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