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50 Words For Poe: Styx


"50 Words for Poe: Styx"




Sleep now

Your Nepenthe has been taken
listen to your dream 
what you pay alms for
requires surveillance
this is where she is reached and seen
in her dreams she dreams within your dream

He whistles in with the wind
Like King of the Hill
Incubus sucks her soul in 
she sits in his boat 
long bare legs wearing 
Red killer stilettos, 
"Persimmon" on her wiggling toenails
She's all covered in Sin
she smells good, ripe for kissing
sailing on Styx 
towards some kind of destiny
Him and his hot dream
on their first tryst
this vetoes all need for safe religion
when he looks at himself, 
God is in the mirror 
staring back at Him
He smiles a Jack Nicholson grin

In vivid hues of Blue
he dreams to win
She whispers,
“Baby come here, come in”
This is all he needs 
He's already on his knees
She becomes
His strange new religion

The Black Raven softly sings
Purple is the colour not Red, that 'reals' him in


(LadyLabyrinth/2019)



"And I'm not one for thinking twice,
But I know this much is true,
The earth will turn and powder burns,
And you are my revolver."





Strange Religion, Mark Laneganhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQZKbUkK_0


The Red Shoes, Kate Bushhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbPPy_bNM4

Lily, Kate Bushhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWaqPOnR5wU 


Moments of Pleasure, Kate Bushhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5hjWVS3ho 

Revolver, Campbell/Laneganhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1Y0m8MX2I 









https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx

Purple
https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-purple/

https://www.colormatters.com/the-meanings-of-colors/purple


Red
https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-red/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Shoes_(fairy_tale)


Blue
https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-blue/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthe

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:41:00 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2qGgYDf2Q

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 3/19/2019 8:41:00 AM

Ah. Avalon...

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:39:00 AM

Oberon: This falls out better than I could devise. But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do? Puck: I took him sleeping,—that is finish'd too, And the Athenian woman by his side: That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed. [Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS] Oberon: Stand close: this is the same Athenian. Puck: This is the woman, but not this the man.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:23:00 AM

“Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid;

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:22:00 AM

And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:20:00 AM

“If we shadows have offended, Know but this and all is mended. That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear, And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding, but a dream.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:18:00 AM

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold -

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:16:00 AM

That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” Shakespeare William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:15:00 AM

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:14:00 AM

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 3/19/2019 8:13:00 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream