Pluto

Oh son of Saturn
still holding true
to your father's law
of limitation.

Will Neptune capture you
as Triton?

Expose your simian line!
Celebrate your difference!
Embrace your darkness!

For only in its depth
will the seed of any living thing
become fertile.

Yet you hide behind
a distorted window
of frozen atmosphere.

Still, the truth is revealed
in your eccentric orbit;
in your rebellious rotation.

But until you find courage,
until you take solitude,
until Charon views the fullness
of your unmasked face,

Who will pay his fee?
Who will journey Styx?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Inman Avatar
October 14, 2017 at 1:53 PM
Another astral beauty Thvia.
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December 1, 2011 at 1:12 PM
Congratulations Thvia on your well deserved featured poem this week. Love, Carol
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September 11, 2010 at 6:13 PM
Like myself, a fan of Greek mythology, my favorite way for masking poetic conceit ... here it clothes our mortality with tragic beauty. Love it
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