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Description Regret: Aphrodite

"Regret!? And why should I regret my gift?
My love and beauty all desire - all!"
Then prettily the goddess puffed and sniffed,
"I'm seafoam-sired: immortal! Not a doll!

And yet you'd trap me with your chain and ball.
This marriage set by Zeus: a dusty joke:
and now you'd wrap me in your net? The gall!
The gall! The gall! I'm weary of your smoke,

the endless fumes of forge and iron and coke,
your wounded eyes that only wish to serve!
Then serve me now! My passions have awoke."
She gasped as coarsened hands explored each curve.

Then gasped again as Aphrodite came,
and fleeting thought, "I wish he wasn't lame!"

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The form is of course, a Spenserian sonnet, which interleaves the rhyme scheme of lines from one stanza to the next.
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Comments: 17

LadyEmber [2008-04-27 18:45:09 +0000 UTC]

Quick question is she talking about Hepaistus or is she talking about Ares I am not sure.
But very nice sonnet ^^

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themapper In reply to LadyEmber [2008-04-29 07:15:46 +0000 UTC]

Good question. She is talking mostly directly to Hephaestus (Vulcan), but thinks some of the latter bits to herself.

Thanks, Lady!

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LadyEmber In reply to themapper [2008-04-29 14:52:44 +0000 UTC]

No problem at all ^^ Also thanks for fixing the confusion ^^

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Nerdfighter [2008-02-27 02:08:40 +0000 UTC]

Very lovely indeed.

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themapper In reply to Nerdfighter [2008-02-27 07:04:21 +0000 UTC]

Why thank you kindly. What did you like about it?

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Nerdfighter In reply to themapper [2008-03-02 00:37:43 +0000 UTC]

"Regret!? And why should I regret my gift?
My love and beauty all desire - all!"
Then prettily the goddess puffed and sniffed,
"I'm seafoam-sired: immortal! Not a doll!"

That part.

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themapper In reply to Nerdfighter [2008-03-02 18:21:40 +0000 UTC]

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SpazticArwen [2007-03-13 00:29:52 +0000 UTC]

again, lovely.

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themapper In reply to SpazticArwen [2007-03-13 02:21:32 +0000 UTC]

mmm, well, this one is my personal favourite of the three. thank you so much for stopping by. May I rummage around your works?

russ

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SpazticArwen In reply to themapper [2007-03-13 16:57:11 +0000 UTC]

u don't need to ask!

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Laurie-Laurie [2007-02-07 22:47:27 +0000 UTC]

Oh I quite loved this, my passion for mythology has come back around recently in a new fevor, and I've been thinkign about drawing a peice concerning Mr. H and Miss A here. I think you captured the fact that their reletionship is very complex, and multifacted, though most only assume it to be about adultry with Aries and such...Excellent Job!

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themapper In reply to Laurie-Laurie [2007-02-09 04:04:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the
Well, I look forward to seeing your drawing about the lives of the two. Thanks for your kind words and please let me know when you've got a picture for us.

Russ

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ironhenry [2006-12-01 13:42:34 +0000 UTC]

I like how you have captured the duplicity of her thoughts vs. her actions. Women! Who can figure them? Who can resist them?

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themapper In reply to ironhenry [2006-12-05 02:19:25 +0000 UTC]

Duplicity - ambiguity - inner conflict ... perhaps she represents a spectrum of thoughts and actions of one who feels both excited/enthralled by her lame husband, and simultaneously repulsed by him.

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medievalgoddess [2006-02-25 04:07:33 +0000 UTC]

............. Your thinly veiled sex scene there made me blush. Just so you know.

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themapper In reply to medievalgoddess [2006-02-26 19:44:15 +0000 UTC]

Lovely. Glad you blushed, wish I could have been there to see it in person.

And I actually didn't intend on making it thinly veiled. I was after storyline supported by sex, without dwelling overmuch on the physical details.

Thanks for taking time to read it. I hope to have another one ready for the series soon.

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medievalgoddess In reply to themapper [2006-02-26 21:38:31 +0000 UTC]

oO Why do people find it amusing to make other people blush? It''s interesting......

Hehehe... and the physical details aren't overly dwelt upon, but I'm in a delicate frame of mind lately and wasn't expecting a sex scene. XD

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