~ by Gregg Rowe ~
Crowned in gold, holding your writing tablet
and your book of rolled paper, you play your
lyre and invite me in to write an epic. I listen to your
lyrical voice as you soothe my muse into a trance,
invite my inner voice to jump
out and bleed words from my heart to
paper, immortalizing a disturbed soul seen through this
epic while searching for the truth of life.
Continuing to write and proclaim my history I
linger in the depths of the underground and hear you
inside my soul, soothing the disturbances so I can let them
out and forever record them.
Encountering you I smell your crown of
roses, inhale your sweet perfume to be taken
away to places that I have not experienced erotically to
teach a student and become a mentor but first I must
ostracize the demons from my soul so I can feel your beauty again.
Everyday I dream to meet my pleasures and
uncover heights yet to be achieved as I
think of opportunities missed because I was drunk with
evil liquids and I fall asleep as your shadow meets me by the
river and your voice cascades with the gentle ripples of the waves,
perhaps we can linger in this time period until the
era ends and you teach me more in pleasuring than being pleasured.
Many nights you have danced in my dreams and
enveloped my id as I gaze upon your masked face
looking for signs of forgiveness for the tragedy that befell my
private world and I shiver with sorrow as you place the garland
on my shoulders and shake with fear from seeing your sword and club
mounted towards the ethereal heavens and I wish to
escape and dance with you, wear the cothurnes and dream
new dreams where I wear your crown of cypress and
escape from the underworld that swallowed me into the sea.
Pensively through your lightly veiled face I see you look
only to question if you would grant me the immortal fame you
lavish to distinct writers who hear your ethereal voice -- while I
yearn in my heart this distinction that you pass unto writers who pen
hymns and lyrics. As I await this title I
yield in my creativity, and you blankly stare back at me with
notes singing in your eyes allowing me to see them dance in your
irises and translate them into mortal words where we are
allowed to read them again through sacred poetry.
Tonight I whirl and I dance with the
heavens and the sky and the stars above the
earth, listen to laughter of the sirens and
re-evaluate my musings while you play your lyre with a
plectrum easing the pain that is brought up from my
soul’s underworld where my child has
invisibly cried for many years and living my mortality became a
chore, yet I meditate with new age stringed instruments
hiding the damage that has scarred my id and bruised my soul
openly brought to the forefront through my writings of 20th century
realities that are incurably hard to rid since
everywhere I go they have become a part of my baggage.
Today I enjoy the comical muse and flourish to the
heavens, having journeyed within the depths of my underworld in
anguish and despair, our faces mirror one another as we search for
love and messages are deciphered and I gaze upon your crown of
ivy as you and I and the crook walk side by side,
allowing us to mingle even though we are worlds apart.
Until yesterday I saw no hope and now my
reality --goodness and evil cohabit within me, for I have witnessed my
astrological signs that you have set out for me on my journey;
now I have glanced into your celestial globe and been unmasked --
I only wish you let me keep these muses with my open vulnerability
allowing me to contact my inner self to create my musings.
Author notes
The good versus evil in this classic poem about the Muses is internal.
These are the nine Greek Muses in mythology and I have incorporated their characteristics into my musings. Hope you enjoy, and if you did maybe you want to check out this link for my Eight Endless Muses!
allpoetry.com/Poem/805960
The link that I used to obtain the description of the muses can be found below --
www.eliki.com/portals/fantasy/circle/define.html
Gregg 
Written September 12th, 2004
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this was quite a poem never read anything which such different style even though i am not into yths this was a blast
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This was an amazing write filled with pretty much everything; imagery, metaphor, mytholigical storyline, colour, etc. These lines were my favourite
"Tonight I whirl and I dance with the
heavens and the sky and the stars above the
earth, listen to laughter of the sirens"
Best of luck & thanks for entering
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AWSOME WRITE!!! I LOVE HOW ITS MORE OF A STORY THAN JUST A SIMPLE POEM. IT GOT ME SUCKED IN ON THE FIRST LINE AND I COULDNT STOP READING. ONCE AGAIN GREAT AND GOOD LUCK IN MY CONTEST!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!
MINDIE (LOST-ROSE-PETAL)
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I have done a lot of research on the Muses especially mine,
Terpsichore. I love what you have done here and the links you gave are very informative. Besides all that, you have a beautiful write here. Thanks for sharing.
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Wonderful set of Acrostics Gregg, I've read it before, the names are still confusing to me. I don't know much about Greek Mythology, but I enjoyed reading them again~Lovesya Brother~Joan
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Very profound write. Thank you for sharing it by entering the contest.
Sam
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Poetic Masterpiece
Gregg, as always this is a stunning display of your talents. Your words are always so beautifully formed as you put your pen to the page and create something so lovely. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us.
Drkpoet
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Well Done!
This is incredible! Thank you so much for sharing this today....
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A wonderful perspective, Gregg and a lovely poem. Reading your work makes me stretch my old mind a bit….no a lot ….I had no idea what you were meaning by nine muses, so i had to go look up what the heck you were referring to. My gosh, my brain hurts. It seems that others who have read this understand what you meant but I barely escape school alive. I found that each of your stanzas is wonderfully reflective of each muse's character and you have made each one your own, applied to your own life situation. Brilliant, simply brilliant. And, if anyone cares to read up on the nine muses, like I had to, here's a link…
(www.eliki.com/portals/fantasy/circle/define.html)
I feel like i been to school all over again (shudder).
Blessings and best wishes,
richard
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i had to travel back in time to last year and recall the nine muses.once they were fresh in mind i was thouroughly able to enjoy this beautiful poem.
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Incredible write. I hope that you stay on the 'light' side. I enjoyed your philosophical musings. Thanks for sharing it.
Sincerely,
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I hit this one from the featured list, just like I did with your 8 muses one. Another good one! I don't quite know what to say. I mean, I've just gotten into doing acrostics myself, and personally, I don't feel I'm quite as talented as this one shows you to be. Hell, it's been a while since I've even studied muses, so it did make for a nice refresher course!
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Wow...it sure is long...but great no less! Wonderfully written...great poem.
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Wow Gregg that's an awesome poem you got there.... Don't know what I can say other than that. It was truly an awesome piece. I think by using the Greek muses they hit you with their words or something
Wonderful poem Gregg, truly. Awesome write. Much love
*~Rosey~*
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Ahhh, added the ninth, I see.
Great work, not that it needed any improvement. Great as it were, even better now. Nice!
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Stunning...
This is an amazing piece. I loved how you have used the Greek muses into your own. The vocabulary in this was spectacular, and the imagery overwhelming. Every time I read something that you have wrote, I have never failed to sit staring at the screen in awe
Take care, Kate
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Muse-ically smashing!
Gregg - I have only recently added you to my favorites; my gf (Candy177) have shown me several of your work in the past and I must say, in less than stellar descriptive language, Holy ****. There aren't words enough to really convey the strength and passion of your poetry skills.
As for this poem - It rocks; to follow the vernacular. Of course, I am familiar with some of the muses; though it did surprise me that Clio, a city about 10 miles north from me, would have drawn their name from mythological advents. Kudos on muses well-written; rest assured that I will be following your work henceforth.
P.S. - in your author's page, you said that you collect internet pieces from LotR, Winnie the Pooh, and Betty Boob. Don't you mean Betty Boop? Just checking! -
Good Piece
I love the tiltle to theis piece and the poem was very well written and spectacular as well. Keep up the good work, and never stop being inspired by your muses. -
A masterpiece
Gregg, as amazing as your Eight endless Muses' even though I don't know most of the words, they're unfamiliar to me, have you got a link where I can look them up? Good to see your muse is on a roll, keep writing them my dear friend, I do enjoy reading your works. talk to you soon~Love~Joan
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A beautiful tribute to the muses, I loved the amazing vocabulary you used within this poem, I noticed you featured it so I decided to check it out from your author page (I hope that doesn't count towards your limit on featured, if so sorry) and found a beautiful poem which I liked a lot
Great write, keep writing because you're amazing
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You did really well, but you forgot the tenth!
Magically your ears
incite language to
cross worlds - time
kills the spaces which
each man holds dear,
years evaporate into
Meaningless etchings
of the Gods that stroll
underground pathways:
stretching in forever's bold
eye of dreams.
He was the God of cartoons
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an only hope one day to write as well as you do. your wrk is unsurpassed in my eyes. I hope you are recovering well. You are a gift from the heaven and deserve all the greatness this world can offer you
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Very impressive and well written. I was blown away by this.. honestly lol. Never heard of a few of the men but meh.. very good job =) Glad you shared it =]
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Another masterpiece...I love how descriptive your writings are I can see them...
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Excellent
I enjoyed the way the muses danced with a longing down the page. I also enjoyed your 8 muses, keep writing friend Your work gets so much stronger every time I read a new work
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Very cool, indeed! To be honest, however, I think this seems more like a performance piece than anything else...really loved the line 'flourish to the heavens' for some reason! Well done!
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Hugh...I never took that as a criticism, I know sometimes the format doesn’t show up properly and destroys the image we are trying to achieve and I thank you for letting me know that sometimes there are still problems with that...especially with the longer lines. if you enjoyed this one, them maybe you would want to check out my other muses to balance the scales here at this link. Happy reading! Gregg
allpoetry.com/Poem/805960
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Hey Gregg,
That was no criticism of you or your poem, buddy.
Thanks for your 'tip' because I certainly want to archive this in a form where those beautiful greek names show up in their proper right. I am using Microsoft Internet Explorer for the AP site. Maybe therein lies the difference?
Anyway, I love anything mythological, or in this case, musilogical. Best wishes and regards and great to know your clock is ticking loud. Hugh. -
Hugh, we must have a different system because i checked this out for half-an-hour to make sure all the lines fitted onto my page and backdrop and on my side it works. Perhaps, you could cut and paste and place it in Word to see the visual effect, my apologies about that, but it took a lot of editing so far to make sure it fits. gregg
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Dear Gregg,
This is a well done exercise which has resulted in a well-written catalogue of the Muses and their attributes interwoven with your own.
What a pity that the inability of the system to offset the overflow of many lines robs it of the acrostic visual effect.
Applause and regards, Hugh. -
"Until yesterday I saw no hope and now my
reality --goodness and evil cohabit within me"
it's usually the clash between the good and evil that makes a person more vulnerable to emotion and life, thus churning out great works of art. this is beautiful... -
Hi Ziggy: The letters going down spell out the muses and the harps and clothing are how they are depicted in paintings and how to recognize them.
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nice!
When I read this poem I thought of Jaden, because of the thought that must have went into this poem...He is also very cerebal, with an incredible wit. This is a superlative write so thank you for sharing -
You have a beautiful way with words. This was very nice and just left a great feeling of awe. I didn't really catch the mythology but I wouldnt know what to look for soo.....nicely done
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i liked the third from the last stanza the most, i can identify with it so completely, now it hurts but is so healing to let the child cry it out and bleed the words to paper, how those words while leaving wounds, heal with out scars, and in leaving tear out the hurt that was there enabling us to fill it with something better and more positive than it was before.
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Your muse must work over time!
Oh wow this was a treat! You gave me another nice dose of mythology hehe i love it so. Great imagery and use of words. You are very good. Everyting flowed nicely and the poem in whole is great! -
Ohhh I like this one too. At first I just thought you changed the title or added something to the other one. lol. So I'm glad I checked this one out as well. You certainly have such a flare for words, and you deliver your message with a clarity you rarely see these days.
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