Venus’ revenge hath begot, <br />vile designed abhorrent plot. <br /> <br />Phoebus oggles Leucothoe’s cleave. <br />In mother’s garb his bosoms heave. <br /> <br />She affrights and then beholds, <br />as the god’s intention unfolds. <br /> <br />While pining whining clytie writhes. <br />Scatters to wind, unfolding myths. <br /> <br />Fathers love, couldnt anger shun. <br />Interred her breathing, under the sun. <br /> <br />Phoebus held by godly restraint, <br />as the banshees, evil paint. <br /> <br />Upon her, limp! He, nectar pours. <br />And, her, to a frankincense bush, restores! <br /> <br />Clytie unquenched, forlorn sits. <br />Watches the chariot and fades to bits. <br /> <br />Nine days gaze and endless search, <br />turned blue tinged violet, under a birch. <br /> <br />original <br />(Islamabad) <br />(Sep o4,2009) <br /> <br />**Dedicated to my poet friend Rehana Nazli’s.. poem. <br />”Jealousy and Greed” <br /> <br />central idea - adapted from <br />The Sun-god and Leucothoe <br />BOOK IV <br />Metamorphoses-Ovid <br />Publius Ovidius Naso <br />(20 March 43 BC – AD 17 or 18) , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who wrote about love, seduction, and mythological transformation. <br />He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet <br /> <br />….hence the couplets here!<br /><br />saadat tahir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/venus-revenge/
