NAPOWRIMO #23: ATHENE

For 2015's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is writing thirty poems in thirty days.

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shore :: shallow waters :: darting form

Eight-Foot :: rising :: rising

rising :: floating near the surface :: lifting

lifting :: from sea toward sky :: erect

mantle cap :: stele arms :: statuesque

liquid :: solid :: biologic

Corinthian helmet :: chiton :: well-wielded spear

virgin :: warrior :: earned epithets and appelations

She of the Gleaming Eyes ::
     The Golden One ::
          At the Forefront of the Battle

piercing herself in hectocotylitic fashion ::
     the divine born of herself ::
          daughter and mother both

egg :: breath :: tender wave

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