Oh stay with me my dear nymph.
I seized with love Oh spare it.
Your maiden curly hair and curves
Given to you by gods entice and charm.
Heart Apollo has pierced
By golden love arrow of Eros.
She in turn abhorred Apollo,
Consumed with hatred her lead heart.
Love me my Daphne don’t spurn me.
She was continuing her flight,
The most beautiful and loved by many gods.
Seeing that Apollo was bound to catch her,
Her skin turned into bark,
Her hair became leaves and
Arms transformed to branches.
Feet became rooted to the ground.
Apollo embraced the branches,
Even the branches shrank away from him.
He couldn’t take her as his wife.
He promised to tend her as his tree and
Use his powers of eternal youth to keep
Bay laurel tree have never known decay.
Author notes
Apollo is the most beautiful Greek god loved nymph Daphne has preferred turning to the tree and not to be his wife
A contest entry
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I love your language
i'm jealous
p.s.- im stealing this
xD jk
Great work!
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an interesting write that a lot of people will read and enjoy, good luck in th econtest with this very good write about the greek myths
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Thanks,
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I loved this. It isn't often I read a well done Greek-God themed poem. That made this all the better to read. Excellent work and good luck in my contest.
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I did my best.
Thank you for your great comment!
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this is lovely and i like the theme, im not really up on greek mathology, my daughter very much is, so you have taught me something today, thanks for sharing friend, keep spilling that ink as you are writting some grand stuff x
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Thank you dear, come back soon for reading some more new stuff!
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i enjoyed reading your write...plus i learned something new on greek mythology!
^.^
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Thank you, my friend.
I glad you enjoyed. I like the greek mythology theme. It's very poetic.
Come back again to read my other work.
I'll read yours soon.
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great write.
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Thanks dear, come back any time!
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this is very beautiful....just a couple grammatical errors in lines 7...i would take out is and in line 19 you used couldn't and no together...other than that it is awesome!!!
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You really like the poem I see. Even changed your name for ApollosMuse. Cool!
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yeah...i actually just wrote a poem using apollo as the sun also so i thought that was cool...i've been wanting to change my name for awhile but oculdn't think of anything so thanks!!LOL!!
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You're very welcome!
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Thank you, it fixed
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