Medusa's Love
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Author's Notes: "Medusa's Love" is a Quatrain theme piece that I've actually wanted to write for a long time. With my interest in ancient history and cultural mythology, among several other academic interests I have, this particular topic seemed perfect since we're now into October with Halloween (All Hallows' Eve) just around the corner. I hope you enjoy this Halloween poem. And don't dream about Medusa as we get closer to Halloween Eve for she just might appear on your doorstep to "trick" and to "entice" YOU to look into her demonic eyes, making YOU her stone-cold treat!! Happy Halloween!! (Gary Bateman - October 1, 2015) (Unrhymed Quatrain)
Categories: dark, evil, fantasy, halloween, horror, myth, and scary.
Medusa’s Love
Medusa is a hideous and vile creature of Grecian yore.
Medusa, once a high priestess in the Temple of Athena,
Suffered Athena’s unforgiving wrath for violating her
Sacred temple as she and Lord Poseidon made love there.
Medusa’s Love entices all of her naive human victims,
Up to that special mesmerizing moment of her icy shock,
As they end up unwittingly gazing into her evil, hellish
Eyes and their bodies harden and turn to stone forever.
You can never trust those Gods who relish in making
The plight of mortal man more challenging on Earth.
Once a perfect paragon of radiant female pulchritude,
Athena transformed Medusa into this mythic monster.
As if this life isn’t frightening enough, with the advent
Of Halloween Eve and the cold, dark nights preceding it;
Medusa’s restless spirit as this grotesque Gorgon can be
Conjured from her lair at the entrance to the Underworld.
From the hissing and viperous serpents adorning her head,
To the ever-present shaking death rattle of her reptilian tail;
Medusa’s sneering and unholy visage paralyzes her victims
As her fiery and demonic eyes bring them a stone-cold death!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
(October 1, 2015) (Unrhymed Quatrain)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2015
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