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50 Words For Poe: Cerberus

"50 Words for Poe: Cerberus"
COME, Golden my night Aristaeus thy husbandry from the cracked honeycomb of my broken broken sleeps my dream warm and tasted sweet a token Goddess Apiarist COME, walk in the immortal of my heart where bees grow from split carcass bleeding life a New to drink from in your hands my body becomes a territory strong standing firm conquered yet not defeated COME, see the forests of my mind where myrtle nymphs put dead Incubus to sleep to transform his evanescence fully fleshed into mortal adorned in robes of royal purple, bronzed in the blaze of Apollo’s sunset flaming o’er my wet rain soaked bones I pass him the Light to crown his head dressed as King to empower the charms to loosen even the hardest of the coldest my Byzantine heart of cobalt made marble stone COME, feel my Delilah heart beat COME, feel my home This for you Cerberus, most hated, standing before Hades shunned and feared so 3 heads to be tamed, become 1 heart with 1, n’ere forgotten n’ere alone, 1 to be loved to be loved as 1 Gold in my Light becomes you dark son Dark in my Light becomes your Gold sun (LadyLabyrinth/2019)
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"Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet"
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“And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.”

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Date: 3/23/2019 10:05:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson
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Date: 3/23/2019 10:05:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delilah
Date: 3/23/2019 9:47:00 PM
"After you lose a loved one, often you're gripped with a fear of evanescence, or the rapid fading from sight or memory of that person. Evanescence comes from the Latin evanescere meaning "disappear, vanish." Something that possesses qualities of evanescence, has a quality of disappearing or vanishing."
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Date: 3/23/2019 7:30:00 PM
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Byzantine
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Date: 3/23/2019 7:06:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus
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Date: 3/23/2019 7:05:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristaeus
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Date: 3/23/2019 7:04:00 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson%27s_riddle
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Date: 3/23/2019 7:03:00 PM
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+16&version=NIV
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Date: 3/23/2019 7:02:00 PM
"Delilah was a woman of Sorek. She is the only woman in Samson's story who is named. The Bible says that Samson loved her (Judges 16:4) but not that she loved him. He married one woman, who was barren. Her name is not mentioned in the Bible, but according to tradition she was called Hazelelponi or Z'llpunith. "
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Date: 3/23/2019 7:01:00 PM
“An apiarist enjoys working with an unusual kind of pet, the honeybee.”
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