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Nine Muse and Three Graces

Friday, March 9, 2018

"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine."

Marcus Terentius Varro

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for Day 1543
Nine random words to be used as a blog entry, poem or story on this ninth day of March. Have fun.
equip, rumor, marble, challenge, expansion, food, brave, burial, register

Nine Muse and Three Graces

Nine muse and three graces,
each with happy or sad faces,
whisper to a poet's soul
each day giving her a goal.

Each essence equips the poet with
the food of creativity,
and the rumors of reality
that let the artist,
in metaphor and simile,
interpret the dance of Terpsichore.

Three graces and nine muse,
teach a writer to sing the blues,
in tones of stanza and line,
that enhance the charm of the rhyme.

Once a poet accepts the challenge
to compose epic poetry
Calliope--
accompanied by
Euterpe's music, songs, and lyrics--
raise her sweet voice,
to intone the beauty
of the ode.

Nine muse and three graces,
have each taken their places,
at the marble table
to recite legend, myth, and fable.

Clio's expansion of history
leave's the author with a mystery,
that only the bold and brave
can dig up from
the burial grounds
of yesterday.

Three graces and nine muse,
appear to be amused
as the poet writes down their stories,
in a register of categories.

Melpomene and Thalia recount
the tragedy and comedy
of heroes and villains
whose lives Urania's astronomy
memorialized in the stars,
and Erato remember in love poetry;
Polyhymnia,
in the seat nest to the poet
intoned hymns.