Oh! illusion of all illusions
Art thou incarnated as Cupid?
Depicted ye with wings
And hath armed with love-shaft
Entwines ye many hearts of innocence
And warms thyself in their perdu passion
Thou drowns many hearts of sanctity love
Into your fathomless Lethe
And creates many insane encomiast
To eulogize thy illusion deeds
As Apollo transformed Clytie to sunflower
Thou endears innocent hearts bend towards you
Cadeceus, I pray unto thee, resurrect true-hearts
Whom the nebulous, fiend Cupid has entombed.
You’re my only thought,
As I wake up or fall asleep
I think of your hair, you hands , your eyes and how they are so deep
The first time I saw you
Love did beseech
If you were the prettiest flower, or the best quote I could ever speak
So let me love you
Like a Shakespearean Sonnet
Let Cupid take notes
As I will love you
I’d choke Aphrodite’s throat
Let me hold your hand
Let’s make the Gods jealous
Let Endymion and The Moon curse because they aren’t us
Let’s run away to a distant land
Where Apollo and Icarus hold hands
Let’s devour each other as Clytie sings her songs
If I can’t be yours
I shall stay forever forlorn
SUNFLOWERS
Sunflower comes from Greek words “helios” for sun and “anthos” for flower.
Unique Greek romantic sad myth of unrequited love of water
Nymph Clytie, who loved the Sun God Apollo, who had no interest in her.
Flower appears to follow the sun, as it moves each day from east to west,
Like how Clytie gazed up at Apollo and hoped to glance or look at her.
One sided love, never reciprocated for Apollo was in love with somebody else.
Wilted away by refusing to eat or drink because Apollo did not return her love.
Eventually Clytie was gradually transformed into a sunflower by other Gods.
Resembling the shape of the sun with magnificent bright yellow petals.
Striking, bold, beautiful flower faces toward the sunshine, named after the sun.
7/12/21 A Brian Strand July 13 Poetry
Previously Entered on 5/24/21
5/24/21 Sunflower Poetry
Malabika Ray Choudhury
Used: PS Grammar Checker
In splendor of sun, stands tall Helianthus
a green patch glimmers enamored in gold.
resplendent rays drizzle bright yellow beams
in harsh hot flames, cherubic petals unfold.
A cup of sunlight brewing honey and lemon
full of zing, gaudy smiles of radiant beauty
In kindred spirit, florets track East to West
revolving a luminous, is it love or loyal duty?
In ancient times, lived the Sun God Apollo,
a water nymph Clytie fell in love profound
the man with golden hair cast her in a spell
and her eyes adored him in passion astound.
But Apollo was in love with Daphne,
the beautiful daughter of a water God.
Unrequited, unnoticed went Clyties love
she kept looking for Sun in paths she trod.
Eventually she turned to a slender sunflower
orbiting her love, a bride waits for sunshine.
Trail of a broken heart, never leaves her soul,
shriveled head wilts in her summer Valentine.
26th June 2019
Sunflower, accursed, to stand and stare,
And Clytie was her fair begotten name.
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
Leucothea was Helios' lady fair,
A love fallen prey to jealousy's game.
Sunflower, accursed, to stand and stare.
Helios' love was lust she did declare,
Harlot - did Clytie Leucothea defame.
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
Leucothea burned at a stake in a flare.
Clytie pined for Helios without shame.
Sunflower accursed to stand and stare.
Angered Helios at this state , unfair,
Turned her to flower - Helianthus fame .
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
She stares at the sun with no one to care,
At night she weeps with her remorse laid bare.
Sunflower, accursed, to stand and stare,
Cursed she was to gaze into the sun's glare.
~16 Jun 2016~
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A static place; her crimson face
She would turn to ash
If he was a ball of flames
She has fallen, signed and sealed
Eyes devoted enough to one
Like humans learned of no other Sun
The mad part of desiring
Is when there’s a risk of dying
She’d be Clytie and he’d be
Her dearest Apollo
And she’d have her feet
Eaten by the ground
Her demise will always be
The color of the light
Even if the cause was
Her love never known