ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Literature Text
Regret: Aphrodite
"Regret!? And why should I regret my gift?
My love and beauty all desire - all!"
Then prettily the goddess puffed and sniffed,
"I'm seafoam-sired: immortal! Not a doll!
And yet you'd trap me with your chain and ball.
This marriage set by Zeus: a dusty joke:
and now you'd wrap me in your net? The gall!
The gall! The gall! I'm weary of your smoke,
the endless fumes of forge and iron and coke,
your wounded eyes that only wish to serve!
Then serve me now! My passions have awoke."
She gasped as coarsened hands explored each curve.
Then gasped again as Aphrodite came,
and fleeting thought, "I wish he wasn't lame!"
-----------------------------------
The form is of course, a Spenserian sonnet, which interleaves the rhyme scheme of lines from one stanza to the next.
"Regret!? And why should I regret my gift?
My love and beauty all desire - all!"
Then prettily the goddess puffed and sniffed,
"I'm seafoam-sired: immortal! Not a doll!
And yet you'd trap me with your chain and ball.
This marriage set by Zeus: a dusty joke:
and now you'd wrap me in your net? The gall!
The gall! The gall! I'm weary of your smoke,
the endless fumes of forge and iron and coke,
your wounded eyes that only wish to serve!
Then serve me now! My passions have awoke."
She gasped as coarsened hands explored each curve.
Then gasped again as Aphrodite came,
and fleeting thought, "I wish he wasn't lame!"
-----------------------------------
The form is of course, a Spenserian sonnet, which interleaves the rhyme scheme of lines from one stanza to the next.
I really have a far-away friend to thank for the inspiration for this. Her interest in Greco-Roman Astronomy and Mythology got me digging around for material on the ancient Greek gods and goddesses. And then I caught her posting on 100 words on regret, which effectively presented 100 words exactly on regret, but in sonnet form!
Well, after that, I could not resist beginning a new sonnet cycle. This one will be my "Regret: ___ " series, beginning with a well-known triangle, the goddess Aphrodite, her husband the god Hephaestus, often known as Lame Vulcan, and the god of war, Ares, who Aphrodite has an affair with. Hephaestus finds out, and traps them in a net from his own forge, a net that is unbreakable. Each character in this series will have something to regret. Here's the first one.
Well, after that, I could not resist beginning a new sonnet cycle. This one will be my "Regret: ___ " series, beginning with a well-known triangle, the goddess Aphrodite, her husband the god Hephaestus, often known as Lame Vulcan, and the god of war, Ares, who Aphrodite has an affair with. Hephaestus finds out, and traps them in a net from his own forge, a net that is unbreakable. Each character in this series will have something to regret. Here's the first one.
© 2006 - 2024 themapper
Comments17
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Quick question is she talking about Hepaistus or is she talking about Ares I am not sure.
But very nice sonnet ^^
But very nice sonnet ^^