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Rain Goddess

Nine Muses to infuse what's merely prose
with qualities of poetry and art.
Nine goddesses committed to help those
who struggle for a chance to touch your heart.
They knew, the Greeks, they well knew that the Muse,
as overworked a goddess as can be,
shall do her outmost, tolerate abuse,
so those true wonders reach both you and me.
But in the list of Muses to behold
a gaping need, a sorely vacant gap.
In all the stories that the ancients told,
one Muse is absent, nowhere on the map.
On dark and stormy nights, she cries above.
Queen of the rain, Calandra, sends her love.

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784984-What-the-Muse-inspires-on-a-rainy-day

Wise Crack

now there’s a story to be told
if you can catch my drift
across both oceans and plateaus
you look, you’ll find a rift

some places you can barely tell
and others, ring of fire
volcanoes, islands, seas that swell
and magma their attire

but there’s a place where there’s a crack
that’ll swallow a whole car
beware, it’ll have you for a snack
it’s open, wide ajar

don’t make the news, be careful looking
when checking what the Earth is cooking

Author notes: image from Pinterest https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784613-Fantasy-1029

Found at Last

She stares into the void below,
and waits for her new lover.
Temptation fills her with its glow:
she’s anxious to discover
delights his whispers guaranteed.
The amber moonlight helps her plead.

A ripple, and her gloom departs.
Translucent first, then copper,
her groom, endowed with the black arts --
she wants to marry, proper.
Her mother’s scolding is in vain.
Calamity! her folks complain.

By now the handsome poltergeist
had filled her mind with poison.
He’s ready to complete his heist;
unholiest liaison.
The copper burns to marigold,
she’s ready now -- into his fold.

His hands, now claws, embrace her form.
She’s struck by their formation.
His face, now darker than a storm,
betrays his real station.
The smell of ash then fills the air.
She faints, hope now extinct -- despair!

The brilliance of his descent,
initial fall forgotten.
Heaven announces the advent,
however misbegotten,
and hell is brimming with new pride.
At last the devil's found his bride.

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784056-Write-To-Image-Word-Bank---8-only- I used all of these from the prompt: Calamity, Struck, Temptation, Scolding, Copper, Translucent, Marigold, Ash, Poltergeist, Delight, Extinct, Whisper, Ember, Gloom, Void, Brilliance, Moonlight, Poison, Depart, Ripple