Yes! This is the first thing I've put on fanfiction! This is a collection of poems I wrote a year ago and recently revised. Hope they aren't that bad.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Greek myths and I don't know who does.
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Perseus
Release the Kraken so he said
Soon the people will all be dead
Crashing waves and people scream
All for the punishment of one vain queen
Beautiful Andromeda chained to a stone
The Kraken's emerge chills to the bone
Brave Perseus with death held high
Medusa's head held to the sky
The Kraken turned to rock, frozen in time
Forever to be cloaked in dirt and grime
Princess of Ethiopia and son of Danae
Cast in the stars their eternal pay
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Pygmalion
Pygmalion loved a girl of stone
Would trade her life for his own
He hoped for an eternal embrace
Instead of rock she lost all trace
To him the gods a gift to give
Galatea and Pygmalion together to live
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Echo and Narcissus
A vain man she fell in love
Himself he thought was above
He scorned her adoration
His love of himself a petty imitation
So in the water he must look
A flower be the flowing brook
She forevermore
An echo of her love
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Arachne
A weaver was she of yarn and string
She thought herself a wondrous thing
Better than the goddess herself
Now forever on a shelf
A fateful contest, a new shape to be worn
Eight legs and eyes, her new form
A spider spinning webs of silk
A vain person with her ilk
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Prometheus
Doom to man they have no life
Beast and brambles, naught but strife
Kind Prometheus gave heavenly fire
But buildings and greed grew higher and higher
Mighty Zeus with his thunder raged
The titan to a mountain caged
Each morning his liver an eagle did eat
But move he could not for chains on his feet
Until a mighty battle Hercules had won
The eagles life over and done
For men the punishment would be severe
Another gift but this one queer
A woman with a box
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OK so those are my poems. I hope they are OK. I had to write two cuplets for school and I kind of went overboard. Oh well, I like them.
Thanks to all of you who took the time to read these. Please review and tell me what you thought.
Have a great day!
--Shadowfox94
