♡ The Signs As Lovers Of Greek Myth: Poetry ♡
ARIES: Aphrodite, The Goddess Of Love & Ares, The God Of War:
“I am made of war and she is made of love but what makes war, if not love?”
TAURUS: Orpheus, The Musician & Eurydice, The Oak Nymph:
“She was everything. A world with hope, a taste of the divine. My home was empty, she was gone, forever. But I would find her in all things, in hooded sun, in the name-whispering breeze scented with her perfume, in the dreamless darkness in which she walked.”
GEMINI: Echo, The Nymph Of Mountains & Narcissus, The Thespian Hunter:
“Shall the water not remember, my hand’s slow gesture, tracing above its mirror my, half-imaginary portrait? My only belonging is my beauty, which I take away and then return as love.”
CANCER: Selene, The Titan Moon Goddess & Endymion, The Shepard Prince:
“She was beautiful beyond men’s prayers for beauty, and she drew her silvery flesh out of the starlit air and her cold sweetness from the midnight dew. Virginal was she, loveliest, austere with visible purity. A godlike love swathed her soft shape in plumes of snow-white flame”
LEO: Helen Of Troy & Paris, The Trojan Prince:
“He looked at her as if she were the sun. One look like that can ruin or rescue, depending on which fairy tales you read, and she had read them all. Eyes like those could never lie, she thought, so when he looked at her, she saw all the devastation he would cause in her name, and all the inevitability of their demise, and all the women who chose peace over passion. To hell with peace. I want a lover like a hurricane or a lightning strike. Love should leave no survivors. So you will be my Paris, and I will be your ship to wreck.”
VIRGO: Odysseus, King Of Ithaca & Penelope, The Faithful Wife:
“Long as the day in the summer time, Deep as the wine dark sea, I’ll keep your heart with mine. Till you come to me.”
LIBRA: Pygmalion, The Sculptor & Galatea, The Statue:
“He slid his arm around the coolness of disdain, felt the distance of an Arctic plain, Rested his hand Upon an alabaster thigh, Saw eternal haughtiness in stony eyes. Human heart has he; She heart of stone - To tempt a man to be so close, but always so alone.”
SCORPIO: Eros, The God Of Love & Psyche, The Goddess Of The Soul:
“He would pluck the feathers from his shoulders, Set flames upon his bow, Drain celestial blood from his veins and become her equal, If that is what it took to deserve her; To share that grin one last time. Curse the gods, If he could only worship the light upon the pores of her skin.”
SAGITTARIUS: Perseus, Son Of Zeus & Andromeda, Princess Of Aethiopia:
“Who decided to call these chains? who said i was forced into who holds me? the rock i sit on is a throne of my choosing; the monster i’m to meet is a friend remembered; Perseus, i choose the water. Perseus, i choose salvation. Because at least this, i can say; the waves have never silenced me the way you always have”
CAPRICORN: Hades, God Of The Underworld & Persephone, Goddess Of Spring:
“He crept into her heart, seeking to devour her, but he was the one consumed”
AQUARIUS: Pyramus, The Handsome Youth & Thisbe, The Beautiful Maiden:
“My Sunset had been darkly beautiful, Asplash with deep reds and purple, crowned in gold. Oh that I had been Pyramus and she Thisbe. Star-crossed and Tragic, A love made eternal by mutual deaths”
PISCES: Leander, The Mortal & Hero, The Virgin Priestess:
“Love is not full of pity, as men say, But deaf and cruel where he means to prey. And now she wished this night were never done, And sighed to think upon th'approaching sun; For much it grieved her that the bright day-light Should know the pleasure of this blessed night, And them, like Mars and Ericyne, display, Both in each other’s arms chained as they lay.”
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