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The Birth of Venus

A blank sonnet

By Rob AngeliPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read
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The surface of sea-foamed salinity

were lines filled with ocean-water and sky

for coalescence into a tidal force

smelling not of mermaid but of seashells.

Formed from a vapor of blood and seed

that had burst from the cosmic castration--

Mother of Love and the Latin bloodline:

Venus the evening star born to the world

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Piercing the heart like a star deep in space

Flotsam and jetsam for primordial soup

out of the salinity of this solid

femininity reigns supreme unshelled

by binding power of cohesion: links

dot to dot the white of stardust to the waves.

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sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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    Written by Rob Angeli