Seduction (Poetry)

A Pantoum inspired by the Greek Myth, Leda and the Swan

This poem is inspired by Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Pantoum is a form of Classical poetry with repeating lines throughout the poem. It is composed of a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern continues for any number of stanzas, except for the final stanza, which differs in the repeating pattern. The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final. (Source: Wikipedia)

Seduction

With virile assurance, compelling as Zeus
The thrall of the cygnus o’er his Leda doth loom
Sweet scent of seduction at fair maiden’s blush
The thorn on her rose impales nectarous flesh.

The thrall of the cygnus o’er his Leda doth loom
With arrogant grace lifts his willowy neck
The thorn on her rose impales nectarous flesh
Bends low without censure as it were his due.

With arrogant grace lifts his willowy neck
Cries out his conquest in rich domination
Bends low without censure as it were his due
Preys on her lips and devours her charms.

Cries out his conquest in rich domination
Sweet scent of seduction at fair maiden’s blush
Preys on her lips and devours her charms
With virile assurance, compelling as Zeus.

© J C Edwards

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