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I turned lesser men to stone, snakes nipping idly at my dress: I am monster, living incarceration of a profane affair. I turned sacristy into brothel, my beauty was perverted to despair. I am monster, grotesque face topped by a hissing nest. As you approached, and I felt a grim shiver in my chest; I glowered my petrifying glare, But you were given hiding-cape', sword, winged sandals to wear, And mirrored shield my powers to arrest. My mask of potent shame was made: Lips blood red and eyes of smoldering coal, Around my face writhing serpents twist and roll. I saw my eyes in your hand, I wailed a last serenade. Gasping in the instant before – everything went stone cold. I am weapon, crafting you a garden of entombed souls. 1Hades’ cap of invisibility
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May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM UTC
A Sonnet for Perseus
I turned lesser men to stone, snakes nipping idly at my dress: I am monster, living incarceration of a profane affair. I turned sacristy into brothel, my beauty was perverted to despair. I am monster, grotesque face topped by a hissing nest. As you approached, and I felt a grim shiver in my chest; I glowered my petrifying glare, But you were given hiding-cape', sword, winged sandals to wear, And mirrored shield my powers to arrest. My mask of potent shame was made: Lips blood red and eyes of smoldering coal, Around my face writhing serpents twist and roll. I saw my eyes in your hand, I wailed a last serenade. Gasping in the instant before – everything went stone cold. I am weapon, crafting you a garden of entombed souls. 1Hades’ cap of invisibility
'Hades’ cap of invisibility.
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May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010 at 5:01 PM UTC
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