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Athena: Mars In Pompeii

4/1/2020

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QUICK UPDATE
With another week down, Unfeathered Ink is making progress on its publishing goals. Today, I've chosen and acquired design and publisher software! That means layout for Athena will start on time and maybe even early. There's a lot to learn about the programs and becoming an indie publisher; I suppose it's good that I am nerdy for research and enjoy being a lifelong learner. Ha! Knowing that this new phase of experience won't just benefit the final product of Athena, but every project we work on for other poets and authors in the future is keeping me focused and driven through the chaos that is 2020 so far. I hope each of you are finding what you need to thrive in our present 'normal'. Wishing you all strength and resilient health!

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IT'S MARS & ARIES SEASON!
This year, April Fools has felt a little eerie. Many seem to be choosing their words and trickery carefully, and for good reason. Humanity is experiencing a complete imbalance of everything it knows. So, let's close out this April 1st with another errand of the fool, a love poem.

A FEW NOTES ABOUT THE MYTHOLOGY
  • Mars: Roman God of War. Agricultural guardian.
  • Minerva: Roman equivalent of Athena. Daughter of Jupiter and Metis.
  • Ana Perenna: Goddess of the 'eternal year'.


Mars in Pompeii by Melody Norton

Sip after sip
Wine is flowing through me
Sweet lava coursing my veins
Like the roads of Pompeii
Incense burning
Smokey air
The kind we spent so much time in
I can’t help but think of you

Thankfully

My mind trickles back
In time
To many times before
Cataloged memories
Me, luring you with my mischief
My best Minerva
Ready to be a freestyle on your lips
Tonight, like many nights before
To have the moisture of your kiss dance upon my skin

I sometimes close my eyes and imagine
Me painting your body with my words
Fingertips grazing over the pastures of your existence
Trembling with poetry I have not yet written
Giving with my craft
To you

You have phased in and out of my reality
A dreamy and distorted reflection
Of the kind of love
I want to exist in

We have loved on the sands of different coasts
Consoled one another from several time zones
Found ourselves neighbors
Still, conflicts of the ram
Overwhelm our odds
At worst we are stubborn
At best, we are just Ordinary People
Whose remnants are captured
Under the moon
In the Temple of Jupiter

No matter how hard we willed it
I’ll always be more your Ana Perenna
than your Minerva
Despite all the times I’ve turned away
And meant it
Perhaps we were just fools

But oh, Mars
Honor me by worshiping the way I reset time when we touch

Sip after sip
From an oversized glass
Leading back to consuming thoughts of you
Leaving me wanting
to be free-flowing,
Cultivated of rhythm and intensity
That somehow matched both
The volcanic pulsing and bass of your heartbeat

I try not to get lost on the endless paths of what-if’s
Exhausting journeys
For you could not extend your virtue into building us

We had a love like the ruins
Timeless
Studied
Ancient
We had a love
That I now call Pompeii

Rich with an essence that couldn’t survive
nature and war
We ended on a white sand beach
Just not the way we imagined
It’s all history and ashen
Dusty journals
Buried expectations
Delicately aged
Left to wither
Like iron
In the atrium
In the House of the Tragic Poet
Next to the ghost of our last dance


See last week's poem & video:
Alala by Melody Norton

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