May 26
Poem: The Eternal Love of Alcyone
Another poem about Alcyone was inspired by another artwork. This is the second artwork, distinct and splendid, of Alcyone from Sarah Polyakov.
There are two Alcyone tracks:
a) The first one is that of the Alcyone, Pleiades of the Taurus Constellation. The poem ‘The Journey of Alcyone’ and the artwork is here. ( Click Link)
b) The second is that of Alycone of ‘Alycone and Ceyx’. The artwork of Alcyone by Sarah Polyakov is below. The Poem ‘The Eternal Love of Alycone’ follows.
Poem: THE ETERNAL LOVE OF ALCYONE
In the tumult of the sky
Bearing the beacon of eternity
A symbol of the heavens
Shine the sisters’ seven
Oh, my dear Alcyone
Are you finally the one
Whose hair is of the shining gold
Wearing the star-studded crown
Head holding secrets untold
Adorned with roses brown
If love was so magnified
That Ceyx, your husband handsome
Filled in your bosom with love
That you call him the mighty God himself
The turn of this wide chested man
‘The flowing nectar of cool white
Like the Moon Goddess herself’
Walls listen and the winds whisper
Falling autumn leaves blown afar
Like a spark lighting a fire
Burnt to ash by a thunder bolt
Drowned in the tempestuous sea
Silence too long, the air still forever
Ceyx’s voice no more, finally it dawns
His ashes now wet with the waters
Your only way to be one body and soul
A life given to the womb of the seas
The watery graves of the salty sea
Melt Zeus’ hearts and flow salty tears
‘Raise from the sea,’ thunders the Lord
Filled your breasts with beats of life
Color to your feathers and wind to your wings
A new journey in a new love nest
The story of metamorphosis
Told for eons to come.
The mystical birds or the Pleiades’ seven
Brightest of that all in heaven
To make those seven days nice
Of that of summer and winter solstice
Even Zeus’ thunderbolts rest
And the seas devoid of any tempest
Walls still listen and winds still whisper
Great years go and seasons proper
Shall shine the story of eternal love
In the bosoms of the mortals below
~ Ashok Subramanian © 2022
