#mwtask04

It’s a tale of a love that never dies, it’s a love song about someone who tries.

"The thunder crashed and storms of blinding rain poured down from heaven. (E)Iris, great Juno's envoy, rainbow-clad, gathered the waters and refilled the clouds."

When is a war not a war? His words taste of smoke, and his eyes reflect the flames. You bite back the urge to fight, to raise your fists against this man. He laughs, and rubs scarred hands together. A war is not a war when it’s a game

❀ god of sun & light ❀ known as “the healer” ❀ can’t write poetry but really likes shel silverstein

Cassandra, daughter of the king and queen, in the temple of Apollo, exhausted from practising, is said to have fallen asleep; whom, when Apollo wished to embrace her, she did not afford the opportunity of her body. On account of which thing, when she prophesied true things, she was not believed. - Hyginus

@brooklynthebishop

-- Ovid, Metamorphoses 3. 550 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.)

Artemis is freedom—wild, untrammeled, aloof from all entanglements. She is a huntress, a dancer, the goddess of nature and wildness, a virgin physically and, even more important, a virgin psychologically, inviolable, belonging to no one, defined by no relationship, confined by no bond.