Hephaestus
Hephaestus
Hephaestus, god of fire,
had legendary skills.
Handicapped, and yet still
hailed as a smithing god,
his metalworking skills
helped him fashion weapons
hammered out for the gods.
(Pleiades)
3/02/2022
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Categories:
hephaestus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Pleiades
Advice From Hephaestus
Did you ever forgive yourself?
But how do you cope with that?
"Okay then, take the answer with a grain of salt...
"What's there to cope with?"
(Wait, does he even have a soul?)
Your mum threw you off Hephie!
"Oh! that wasn't, really, my call."
Yes I know that and I feel
So sorry for you!
"Why?" He sounded more confused
Than I was
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Categories:
hephaestus, god, mum, mythology,
Form: Quatrain
Hephaestus Letter of Thanks To Aphrodite
My DEAREST
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My Dearest Aphrodite...
I write of our honey moon...
your skin... soft... smooth as silk...
thoughts... blossomed... perfumed...
a rose in the hope of pollination...
my yearning heart beats...
harkens to your lilting voice...
I Hephaestus swooned at your whispers...
dusk arrived...
I am calmed by your smile...
it takes us into the twilight hours...
held between my cupped hands...
in hope that
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Categories:
hephaestus, love,
Form: Blank verse
Hephaestus
I have forged
light of distant
stars into galaxies
scattering diamonds trailing
meteor dreams sweeping
empty nights clean
of flame bursting
into a million
shards of white-
hot carbon poured
down runnels to
hell from where
voices clamor for
air and slag
burns fissures into
stygian voids of
inference pulled into
the vortex of doubt
shimmering in particles of light
suspended from
whence we came
to where we
shall return
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Categories:
hephaestus, fire,
Form: Free verse
Hephaestus
In the pit of the underworld
His hammer strikes the steel
He forges metal
And he forges life
For life started in fire
Than cooled down
Like water cools down steel
He forged metal
He forged life
But did he forge soul
Or are we just like metal
Where does the spirit and consciousness meet
Are they result
Of each other
Or independent
Does having one
Mean
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Categories:
hephaestus, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse