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Vale Luna  Aug 2017
EURUS
Vale Luna Aug 2017
Maintain a distance
Of at least three feet
Cuz a close encounter
Is more bitter than sweet

Just one step too close
And she's inside your head
Just one step too close
And soon you'll be dead

She'll make you believe
That she can help you
That whatever you want
Is what she wants too

But once she's inside
Her wicked voice rings
By then, you're enslaved
To do her bidding

Her thoughts are inhuman
She doesn't feel pain
She's clearly unmatched
When it comes to the brain

But please don't be tricked
By her dark mind games
What she's trying to do
Is drive you insane

Who is she, you ask?
She's the east wind that blows
Well haven't you guessed?
Her name is Eurus.
For all the BBC Sherlock fans!
Ovid  Oct 2010
Love and War
Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:
I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.
Youth is fit for war, and also fit for Venus.
Imagine an aged soldier, an elderly lover!
A general looks for spirit in his brave soldiery;
a pretty girl wants spirit in her companions.
Both stay up all night long, and each sleeps on the ground;
one guards his mistress's doorway, one his general's.
The soldier's lot requires far journeys; send his girl,
the zealous lover will follow her anywhere.
He'll cross the glowering mountains, the rivers swollen with storm;
he'll tread a pathway through the heaped-up snows;
and never whine of raging Eurus when he sets sail
or wait for stars propitious for his voyage.
Who but lovers and soldiers endure the chill of night,
and blizzards interspersed with driving rain?
The soldier reconnoiters among the dangerous foe;
the lover spies to learn his rival's plans.
Soldiers besiege strong cities; lovers, a harsh girl's home;
one storms town gates, the other storms house doors.
It's clever strategy to raid a sleeping foe
and slay an unarmed host by force of arms.
(That's how the troops of Thracian Rhesus met their doom,
and you, O captive steeds, forsook your master.)
Well, lovers take advantage of husbands when they sleep,
launching surprise attacks while the enemy snores.
To slip through bands of guards and watchful sentinels
is always the soldier's mission - and the lover's.
Mars wavers; Venus flutters: the conquered rise again,
and those you'd think could never fall, lie low.
So those who like to say that love is indolent
should stop: Love is the soul of enterprise.
Sad Achilles burns for Briseis, his lost darling:
Trojans, smash the Greeks' power while you may!
From Andromache's embrace Hector went to war;
his own wife set the helmet on his head;
and High King Agamemnon, looking on Priam's child,
was stunned (they say) by the Maenad's flowing hair.
And Mars himself was trapped in The Artificer's bonds:
no tale was more notorious in heaven.
I too was once an idler, born for careless ease;
my shady couch had made my spirit soft.
But care for a lovely girl aroused me from my sloth
and bid me to enlist in her campaign.
So now you see me forceful, in combat all night long.
If you want a life of action, fall in love.
Espresso manic Jun 2017
Two birds took flight from the same tree,
one flew east to Eurus’ realm.
Seeking warm lands and sunrise's embrace.
The other flew west to Zephyrus' palace,
In search of the gentle winds
and harsh conditions.

Intending to get as far as possible from one another
and yet, life had other plans for them.
Escaping the past does not get you far
and what goes around comes around.

Years later, the two birds
discovered the world was round.
A student of the crowded breeze.
On a whim Raise like the dandelions' seed,
Vibrantly dissent like, in fall, trees' leaves.
An apostle of purpose beyond what one sees for the unknown is nothing and possibility.

Our lessons are on the topic of practical whimsy, in their way; the wind that cools your face also fans a flame and guides the rain.
The Sensei go by many names, I know them from the roles they play:

Boreas shepherds my turmoil,
A tempest;
senseless, cold and violent as if without vision only vengeance.

Notus shows my passion;
A gust to an ember on dry land,
Unreasonable, unpredictable and destructive without a plan.

Zephyr entices my love;
A subtle intimate current for dance,
The beauty of birds and bees flying from flower to flower and branch to branch.

Eurus reflects my way;
A flurry that moves the sand.
The removal of sediment,
the return to foundation born from action mixed with patience.

They can only guide me
I can ride the winds of the odyssey or resign to the winds of dreams
but I know
I Am
A student of the breeze.
Boreas- the north wind in Greek mythology associated with the storms
zephyr- the west wind associated with spring
Notus- the south wind associated with crop destruction (end of autumn)
Eurus-the east wind the associated with opposing Noctus and autum bounty

looking for a new muse to learn new things about myself through someone true to themselves
Nigel Morgan  Jan 2013
The Beach
Nigel Morgan Jan 2013
Carstairs  had been waiting for the boat for three days and there it was, suddenly appeared. He had dozed and it had appeared. He trained his binoculars on it, but it was too far away to be clearly recognisable. It seemed motionless, becalmed in a sheet of unruffled water.
 
He had dug himself into a bank in the sandhills. He still had a little water, some raisins; there was a final cube of chocolate carefully wrapped in the whole of its paper. It was the thought of this hidden pleasure that had sustained him during the hours of darkness when the slight rain and the chill of inactivity had forced him to exercise, to move about, though always afraid he would lose his burrow.
 
From the earliest light of dawn the day had been clear and still. The sea birds had muted calls, the sea itself more a presence than a sound. The tide had steadily retreated beyond his expectations. He knew he had to wait for the arranged signal.
 
Turning on his back he looked at the sky. A few clouds floated hesitantly in the glazed blue. He remembered suddenly a moment from his childhood,       above the beach at Red Point. He had escaped his parents, his adored sisters, and hidden himself in the marran grass. He had lain on his back and felt himself levitate into the clouds. He had looked down on the whole scene, a waking dream. Those moments floating above the long Highland beach had never left him. Sitting in the examination hall for his Tripos that memory had come upon him; he had been paralyzed by it, unable to write or think. He had closed his eyes and strange geometrical shapes had ensnared him. He had felt extremely sick . . .and then very calm. He had returned to the task in hand, a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, that opening passage describing Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas: the four winds.
 
. . . he felt something wet nuzzle his hand. A dog, a black shape no more. As he struggled to move himself a larger shape obliterated the sun and shot him.
Oh precious Hyacinth, in my eyes a jewel
In front of your radiance, my knees fell
You’re like a glistening pearl in a ****** shell
I am enamored by your enthralling spell

Listen everyone to Zephyrus’ Serenade for Hyacinth!

Oh King of Sparta, you bear the tastiest fruit
On the land he is the handsomest youth
This is for everyone a crystal clear truth
That’s why in my heart the arrows of Eros shoot

Listen everyone to Zephyrus’ Serenade for Hyacinth!

Oh precious Hyacinth, you have equaled the glamour of a god
Your face is fairer than any mortal lad
Your muscles are firmer than any man had
Because of such beauty, you make me feel glad

Listen everyone to Zephyrus’ Serenade for Hyacinth!

Oh King of Olympus, let me have this seductive mortal
For him my godly being turned carnal
The appeal of his flesh is oddly unusual
I want him to be mine for time eternal

Listen everyone to Zephyrus’ Serenade for Hyacinth!

Oh precious Hyacinth, under my wings you’ll never fall
Come to the West Wind’s most desperate call
To you I’ll reserve the prettiest room in my hall
The most romantic & blissful haven for all

Listen everyone to Zephyrus’ Serenade for Hyacinth!


Oh deities & humans, grant me this costly man
Boreas, Notus, Eurus, bring me this heavenly Spartan
Let our powerful Anemoi bequeath him from his clan
Turn him over to the Western Wind, his greatest fan!

Listen everyone to Zephyrus’ Serenade for Hyacinth!


-02/11/2015
(Dumarao)
*Hopelessly Immortal Collection
My Poem No. 334
dairy  Apr 2019
eurus
dairy Apr 2019
the cold draft rises from the east
up there, we are kissed by the wind
in the middle of words, we were lost
Fable XI, Livre III.


Le vent s'élève ; un gland tombe dans la poussière :
Un chêne en sort. - Un chêne ! Osez-vous appeler
Chêne cet avorton qu'un souffle fait trembler ?
Ce fétu, près de qui la plus humble bruyère
Serait un arbre ? - Et pourquoi non ?
Je ne m'en dédis pas, docteur ; cet avorton,
Ce fétu, c'est un chêne, un vrai chêne, tout comme
Cet enfant qu'on berce est un homme.
Quoi de plus naturel, d'ailleurs, que vos propos !
Vous n'avez rien dit là, docteur, qu'en leur langage
Tous les buissons du voisinage
Sur mon chêne, avant vous, n'aient dit en d'autres mots :
« Quel brin d'herbe, en rampant, sous notre abri se range ?
Quel germe inutile, égaré,
À nos pieds végète enterré
Dans la poussière et dans la fange ? »
« - Messieurs, » leur répondait, sans discours superflus,
Le germe, au fond du cœur, chêne dès sa naissance,
« Messieurs, pour ma jeunesse ayez plus d'indulgence :
Je croîs, ne vous déplaise, et vous ne croissez plus. »
Le germe raisonnait fort juste :
Le temps, qui détruit tout, fait tout croître d'abord ;
Par lui le faible devient fort ;
Le petit, grand ; le germe, arbuste.
Les buissons, indignés qu'en une année ou deux
Un chêne devînt grand comme eux,
Se récriaient contre l'audace
De cet aventurier qui, comme un champignon,
Né d'hier et de quoi ? sans gêne ici se place,
Et prétend nous traiter de pair à compagnon !
L'égal qu'ils dédaignaient cependant les surpasse ;
D'arbuste il devient arbre, et les sucs généreux
Qui fermentent sous son écorce,
De son robuste tronc à ses rameaux nombreux
Renouvelant sans cesse et la vie et la force,
Il grandit, il grossit, il s'allonge, il s'étend,
Il se développe, il s'élance ;
Et l'arbre, comme on en voit tant,
Finit par être un arbre immense.
De protégé qu'il fut, le voilà protecteur,
Abritant, nourrissant des peuplades sans nombre :
Les troupeaux, les chiens, le pasteur,
Vont dormir en paix sous son ombre ;
L'abeille dans son sein vient déposer son miel,
Et l'aigle suspendre son aire
À l'un des mille bras dont il perce le ciel,
Tandis que mille pieds l'attachent à la terre.
L'impétueux Eurus, l'Aquilon mugissant,
En vain contre sa masse ont déchaîné leur rage ;
Il rit de leurs efforts, et leur souffle impuissant
Ne fait qu'agiter son feuillage.
Cybèle aussi n'a pas de nourrissons,
De l'orme le plus fort au genêt le plus mince,
Qui des forêts en lui ne respecte le prince :
Tout l'admire aujourd'hui, tout, hormis les buissons.
« L'orgueilleux ! disent-ils ; il ne se souvient guères
De notre ancienne égalité ;
Enflé de sa prospérité,
A-t-il donc oublié que les arbres sont frères ? »
« - Si nous naissons égaux, repart avec bonté
L'arbre de Jupiter, dans la même mesure
Nous ne végétons pas ; et ce tort, je vous jure,
Est l'ouvrage de la nature,
Et non pas de ma volonté.
Le chêne vers les cieux portant un front superbe,
L'arbuste qui se perd sous l'herbe,
Ne font qu'obéir à sa loi.
Vous la voulez changer ; ce n'est pas mon affaire ;
Je ne dois pas, en bonne foi,
Me rapetisser pour vous plaire.
Mes frères, tâchez donc de grandir comme moi. »
Gone! The boy is gone! This cannot be!
That little creature’s presence makes me happy
Now the ice castle is already dark & empty

You, nasty girl, return the boy! Come back here!
Winds of four directions – Boreas, Notus, Eurus, Zephyr
Blow with might and bring back my dear!

Oh obedient gusts, don’t let them go! Don’t make me fail!
Accompany them my tornado, cyclone, storm & hail
Give out your full blast from head to tail

Oh how dare that detestable lass again is trying
To conjure her cheap sorcery for another shameless fighting
We will give her what she wants! I am craving!...

Craving to crush that petite parasite so bold
Who dared to fight & defeat my army so cold
Trespass my palace and ****** the boy I hold

Die Gerda! You’re finished! Embrace your death in our final fight!
Face now my force in its fullest might
Witness the Retake of Snow Queen of my boy of delight!

-02/18/2015
(Dumarao)
*Opposite Endings Collection
My Poem No. 339

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