Pythian Games

Doorway to the House of Muse

Posted in KerryWordsmith, Mnemosyne Stream Memories by kvwordsmith on March 26th, 2008
(Inspired by prompt “What does the Muse’s doorway look like?”)By KVwordsmith (200 8)  

The doorway to the house of the muse is a milkweed pod, rough, brown, scratchy on the outside, broken open, showing its soft and sericeous inside.  The House of Muse protects the seeds of ideas being germinated.  When the right breeze comes along, a few of the seeds are lifted, loosed, and blown away, via silken parachutes, to grow in new fertile ground.  If the soil is nourished well with a rich compost of ideas, watered by the inspiring springs of the Hippocrene, bathed in warm sunlight, a new milkweed plant grows, asclepias syrica, appropriately named after the Greek god of healing, for its medicinal uses. 

…M is for muse, medicine, magic, memory, and milkweed…

Please click the links to see some beautiful pictures of milkweed:

http://www.julianchandlerphotography.com/view.php?id=3

http://www.naturalsciences.org/funstuff/notebook/plants/milkweed_pods.html

For more information about milkweed, please visit:

http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/bi/2000/Ethnobotany/milkweed.html

6 Responses to 'Doorway to the House of Muse'

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  1. imogen88 said, on March 27th, 2008 at 2:43 am

    How lovely, words and images.

  2. shewolfy728 said, on March 27th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    I like this one.

  3. Jill said, on March 27th, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    This is just lovely, thank you.

  4. espirit07 said, on March 27th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    I really want to read this but the font is way, way, way too small.

  5. espirit07 said, on March 28th, 2008 at 1:21 am

    Still way small. However, I managed to read it and enjoyed the imagery and thoughts ;-)

  6. kvwordsmith said, on March 28th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    I tried to increase the text size - if anyone has some tips, I will try again….Kerry

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