Dodges prompt: on muses and also a look at RHYME by Gay Cannon

Dodges prompt: on muses and also a look at RHYME by Gay Cannon

Just a bit of fun.  I am catching up slowly as I still have a stomach bug and can't eat.

Night Muses.

Calliope will visit me

in the dark hours of the night time

and taunting me with poetry

she fills my dreams with verse and rhyme

And when I wake and grasp my pen

to write those flowing lines I dreamed

I jot down a good verse and then

Thalia ruins what I schemed.

So I give up and doze again

in skips Erato, hand in hand

with Terpsichore in my brain

to full church choir and big brass band.

Polyhymnia hums a line

while Clio adds a background note,

Melpomene soaks us in brine,

her tears wash away all I wrote.

So I drift off to a far place

with joyful help from Euterpe

and end up so far out in space

Urania must rescue me.