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Married to Medusa

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10/24/2024 for Glenn Hughes Poetry Contest sponsored by Robert James Liguori

Inspired by Medusa, written and sung by Glenn Hughes, with Trapeze I look at you and can only stare. I love your long and flowing hair, your smiling lips and eyes that flash as you bat each knowing lash. Yet sometimes very late at night, or when the light strikes you just right, your beautiful hair turns into snakes. Your look gives me the creeps and shakes. Maybe I drank something too strong, or maybe I said something wrong. I'd rather ride an appaloosa, but I'm married to Medusa.

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thriveni c mysore

Date: 11/10/2024 4:30:00 AM

humorous write dear poet. congratulations on your win. happy writing. Cheers.

David Crandall
Date: 11/10/2024 1:09:00 PM

Thanks Thriveni!

Robert James Liguori

Date: 11/10/2024 1:05:00 AM

Charming, witty and fun… all the elements to a great poem. Congrats on placing.

David Crandall
Date: 11/10/2024 1:08:00 PM

Thanks Robert!

Janice Canerdy

Date: 10/26/2024 8:06:00 PM

Oh, well, nobody's perfect! LOL! Well-done, David. Janice

David Crandall
Date: 10/27/2024 8:44:00 AM

haha, thanks Janice!

Valsa George

Date: 10/25/2024 9:25:00 PM

Hi David, this is great poetry....equally amusing and beautiful. In marriage, initially everything will seem beautiful. But as day grows into night, the true colors will come out. "Yet sometimes very late at night, or when the light strikes you just right, your beautiful hair turns into snakes. Your look gives me the creeps and shakes." Enjoyed this stanza very much.

David Crandall
Date: 10/25/2024 9:39:00 PM

Hi Valsa, I agree. I think that people are all just human, each and every one has good and bad sides. Everything is beautiful at first, other-worldly, but then you only two people, with all their flaws.

Ink Empress

Date: 10/25/2024 12:01:00 AM

Dear David this is beyond brilliant! I love the title youv gone for too! Ah to be married to Medusa, wonder what that is like, and your rhymes are catchy and i love also “your beautiful hair turns into snakes. Your look gives me the creeps and shakes. “ this i know is on medusa, but strange how accurate it is for marriages too, as this could also be about a beautiful woman with mental health issues, and being stuck in a marriage. I guess i went a bit deep analysing this. But im a fan of medusa so i loved reading this! The last line is powerful! Best wishes! Sending you light always

David Crandall
Date: 10/25/2024 10:26:00 AM

Yes, I kind of hi-jacked my superficial knowledge of the Medusa myth for the poem, without knowing her nuances. Do you have any recommendations for what I might read about her, say fictional accounts where she's featured? Thanks for the light!

Ink Empress
Date: 10/25/2024 9:51:00 AM

Im so sorry to heat that, its never easy being in any sort of relationship with one that has mental health issues or one with mercurial personality, it could take years to heal from the pain and angst one must have endured while living in that situation. I interpret medusa a bit differently, and on a deeper level, i see her as one that was done wrong and was cursed , a beautiful lady that was misused and abused. If you read a little more on medusa you will find her fascinating. I tend to use mythology alot in my poems. I think this poem will do very well in the contest too; Sending you light always

David Crandall
Date: 10/25/2024 9:04:00 AM

Thanks Ink. Your kind and detailed review inspires me to reveal that I was once married to a gorgeous, effusively loving, well-intentioned lady with a mercurial personality, and that being married to me would make anyone grow snakes out of their heads.

David Crandall
Date: 10/25/2024 9:04:00 AM

I don't know much about the Medusa, but I'm a bit fascinated by the idea of two-sided being that can flash between extreme beauty and a dangerous, rageful ugliness in a second, leaving some ambiguity about whether it is real or in the perception of the beholder.