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Untitled (Darksong)

Untitled (Darksong)
08/14/2010

Because of you, a new darkness has been born.
Sung into existence by your misery and your
pain, my trust so delicate you shattered strongly.
How can I  move forward, when  each step
is filled with sorrow? How can I love you when
you are on the path set to destroy me? I see the blood
against my against my skin, and the knife wedged
in my back.

Because of you, my life was stopped short of meaning.

©2010 Tragedienne Belle Morte
 
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Rubicon
08/07/2010
I stand across this great river, my judgement hath been made, the decisions of others,
leads me to this tremendous moment.  For I am alone, a component Legion made of one
intrepid soul. 

My footing placed firmly on solid ground, I step into the forboding river's flooded waters.
Knowing whats at stake,  do I dare attempt to look back?  Shall I tread forward towards the
welcoming waves?


Wading forward, the crashing of the impact, strikes the very essence of my soul, as memories

Myriad

Myriad
06/04/2010
 
I can no longer sing, my spirit is floating between the ethers, my touch with reality is lost edged with heartbreak and sorrow.
Lamenting what was lost, what was never had, never had to hoped to gain, this silent cry of emptiness solid like a wailing wall.

I watch my empire fall around me, crumbling, this succumbing to the waves of the open sea,  my kingdom gone, I find myself bereft
of a nation, betrayed those near and far from me.

Tears gather in collected pools along my skin, my senses aware of the loss, such unimaginable loss.

Invocatio Mercurius 07/10/09

Invocatio
 
Praise O Mercurius, Son of Iuppiter,
Messenger of Iuppiter, Son of titans,
 I, Iulia Aquila, plea that upon Your lyre
Play songs of success for my new venture.
Eloquent Mercurius, propitious success
Bring to myself and to those I love.
I offer frankincense and golden amber.
I offer two ornate discs formed of silver
Designed and worked by my own hands.
Under the stars I lay a cask of purest Water
Yours to bless and make sacred for my use.
If to You this does not appear to please
I shall ask again once more.

Invocatio Venus 10/25/09

Invocatio
 
Salve Venus Genetrix, Verticordia, Alma et Amica!
Aurea, Deprecatrix et Bellatrix!
Caelestis, Libitina - spumis est Dea dicta maris!
Felix, Obsequens, Calliplocamos, Callipygis, Nupta Diis,
Compluta Cupidinibus, Compluta Votis, Susurratrix, Victrix!
Huc ades, anima laeta veni, Mater Venus!
 
 
Hail, Venus! Giver of Life!
O Changer of Hearts, Kindly Nurturer andGolden One,
     and Celestial One!
Giver of Life, Guide to the Departed –
Goddess named after the 

To Dream That I Am Dreaming

To Dream That I Am Dreaming
To J
 
 
To reach an agreement
in love or in every movement,
we have ourselves
in possession of bodies and of rhythms.
I dreamed about you last night,
respiration growing
as a double route of escape
or bound to a conquest.
To dream that I am dreaming:
I make love to you,
I drink you in your breasts,
in your sex of juices and flavors,
in your mouth, your hands, your legs.
Any hour during the night
dreaming that I dream,
has its own diapason
and celebrates us:
a murmur without laughs or banquets,

Tragedy VIII

Tragedy VIII
5March2009®©Aquila
 
No more no more oh the pain that I bear
No longer my heart does he listen to hear
Warm flesh, sweet touch o'er tender thigh
Breath on my breast crept absent sigh
Gone, he is near not spirit scattered afar
Cut from my chest by death's scimitar
If only one more hour, a day, a year
Perchance for me taste a lover's tear
Gold was his flesh, taste fresh on lips
On Phrygian steed O my Daedalos whips
To clouds subsumed Sun, I, left so alone
Empty, unprotected, chilled to the bone

The Marine and Athene

The Marine and Athene
16December2009 ®© Aquila
 
Gazing into eyes of passion
Listen I, while his heart revealed
His love for one so strong, so wise;
Pallas Athene, of the bright gray eyes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photo of Athene by Aquila®©11February2010
 
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Noble Knight Mine

Noble Knight Mine
03July09 ®© Dame Julietta
 
O I mused noble Knight mine
   A song you’d pen of only me
Instead your tale rent a sad silent pang
   Within my coeur tendre
 
Trust, from you would not I’d turn  
   For one I could not see
Passion, flesh, flushed sweet lips
   Form the road to the gods for me
 
Your gift would I cherish
   That fire I’d kindle
No chill your heart would know
   If only your heart-song was mine

Trobairitz

Trobairitz
14Septembre09®© Dame Julietta
(Dedicated to a very special friend)
 
 
I am beautiful this morning
   Because you made it so
Not because you brought Spring
   Back into my life
But because you fully awakened
   The rich beauty of Fall
 
 
With just the sound of your voice.
 
 
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Vesta’s Fire

Vesta’s Fire
 
 
On the hearth at the heart
An Ancient city sleeps:
In the darkness,
In the silence,
Vesta’s fire burns,
Strong and bright
 
Careful, tender hands
Reach into light to tend;
Whispered prayers float
Like a soft breeze upon
The sleeping stillness
 
There is light.
There is safety.
 
So it was, in long past times,
And so it is, again,.  Her fire
May burn low, but it will leap
Into exuberant brilliance, always.
 
Her Fire may die.  It will be relit, always.
For there will always be tender, reverent

Spring Fires

Spring Fires
 
 
In a quiet garden,
I sit alone, unobserved,
Early March sun slanting
Down the sky, birds more
Sleepy than jubilant, tree,
Winter bare, but promising buds,
 
I am mute and grieving,
Remembering December
And kissing my beloved’s hands
For the last time, weeping and whispering
Begging him to stay, begging the gods
To safeguard him on his journey,, tears then,
Tears now …an unbroken stream, taking yet more
From endless emptiness; I take a shuddering breath,
Determined to wrest calm from wild chaos

Offering to Vesta

Offering to Vesta
 
Your eternal fire
Shields against oblivion
Holds chaos at bay,
Guards against danger,
Answers fear with steady brilliance.
 
With open heart, I extend my hands
Laying the fruits of my sorrow before you,
Pouring out the wine of my tears,
A storm wrenched leaf trembling on the brink.
 
Your gentle presence surrounds me,
Reaches into my center, holding me fast,
A cloak enfolding me, warm and safe
Against the splintering cold.
 
You accept my meager gifts, and to my wonder
Transform them into radiance

Morning Alarm

Morning Alarm
 
I fall from sleep
Into shivering alertness
My entire body silently shrieking
“Danger! Threat!  Here! NOW!”
Information roars through my mind, with my pulse …
Very early morning …
Something alien in the soundscape of my space …
Something has come where I am, and I am
Vulnerable.
 
My body tightly coiled,
Ready for flight or fight,
Nerves questing for knowledge, assessing threat:
 
It comes again, this sound that doesn’t belong …
 
And it *does* belong!  A song pours in through my window,

In Praise of Apollo

In Praise of Apollo 
 
When you, Glorious One, Beautiful One,
Lay your gleaming hands upon your golden lyre
The music that flows from it, from you,
Teaches birds their rightful songs …
Makes water droplets dance in joyous sparkles …
Strokes the meanest streets with loveliness …
Draws the hues of roses and of lilies
Into trembling, vibrant richness … 
 
Fills the hearts of children with wondering laughter …
Brushes the faces of all men and all women with a shadow of your own radiance …
Warms the stone of walls,

Easy Words

Easy Words
 
It was the perfect repost;
One sentence of exquisite malice,
Forged from anger, shaped
By  twisted enjoyment of exact
Words and elegant phrasing.
 
With a haughty inward smile
I threw this at my friend.
 
Then watched in helpless horror
While the look of her eyes bled
From warm trust to wary pain,
And the face, that had hidden no secrets from me
Withdrew, like the gentle closing of a book,
 
No words from me, then, easy or otherwise,
For I had learned how fragile trust can be,

Dedication (to Vesta)

Dedication
 
I come to you, Great Vesta, as I am;
Pretending nothing: claim no merits
I do not possess: I bring you my virtues and My faults:
Knowing my unworthiness, yet
Knowing also that, within my heart, I can find
And have always found your bright, steady flame: 
 
I do not know what my ancient sisters felt, or brought
Of themselves to lay before you: I only know
That what I have of love, and will, and purpose
I offer you, and can only hope that you, in your
Wisdom find them, and this, your servant, worthy.

La Viole Rose

Claude Théberge was born in 1934, in Edmunston, New Brunswick and died on May 15, 2008, in Montreal.  He grew up in Témiscouata. Having studied art in France, he returned to Quebec to found a workshop devoted to the integration of art and architecture, which would create the wall claddings for Papineau and Rosemont stations. After receiving a bachelor's degree in design management, he started a second workshop which included such artists as Antoine Lamarche and Michel Dernuet.

Iulia Victrix

For L. Iulia Aquila
 
Idaeae pulsent Curetes tympana Matri,
Faustis atque ferant genetricem laudibus almam!
Vota vovens decori Cybeles pura, atque Quiriti
Esto Turrigerae cordi, tu Iulia victrix.
 
By Caius Petronius Dexter 
 
 
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