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Ode to Calliope

October 9, 2018
By jo SILVER, Rexburg, Idaho
jo SILVER, Rexburg, Idaho
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Favorite Quote:
"My women of Paris, seek your own enlightenment!" - The Musketeers (BBC)


"Cheif of all Muses!" as Hesiod said,

I would bless thy name, sing a thousand odes, 

But neither prayer nor song which I compose

To your glory could compare. 

Humbly, then, I bend my knee 

To your blackbird.

Even for that wretched wailing, heard

Where magpies plea,

I give thanks to my Muse;

I would not know beauty weren't for she,

And when I part my lips, there she places words to speak.

So I bow my head to her nightingale!

It is a poor gift to take the words she has given me

And write an ode to Calliope.


The author's comments:

I love the myths about Calliope, and I've wanted to write something celebrating her for a very long time. It struck me how it would almost be hypocritical to write her praises when it is she who gave me the words to do so. 


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