Category: Cosimia

[caption id="attachment_15550" align="alignright" width="150"] "Junge Schönheit (Young Beauty, Flora), Max Nonnenbruch, 1892, Wikimedia.[/caption] Evening hillside breeze, wind-waving trees, Belief in gods, old and new, metallic voices Beckoned me, Cosimia. “Do...

[caption id="attachment_13226" align="alignright" width="150"] "Art and Literature," William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1867, WikiArt.[/caption] Part 3: Mysticism Alight in Bone, Blood (Last) Cyllene’s temple returned, released as vine, Tree abruption-ripped, roots bark-indwelling, My...

[caption id="attachment_10044" align="alignright" width="150"] "Portrait of a Roman Woman," Henryk Siemiradzki, 1890, WikiArt.[/caption] Part 2: Children of Ægina Infant eyes opened to sunlight of distant Foreign shores, goddess Cyllene breast-...

[caption id="attachment_15845" align="alignright" width="150"] "Unwelcome Confidences," Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1902, WikiArt.[/caption] Part 1: Glorious Bright Glances Our customs, rituals primitive, festivals, Feasts, beliefs mystical, living deities, Walking, teaching us, yet...

[caption id="attachment_10900" align="alignright" width="150"] "Hesperus, Evening Star," Edward Burne-Jones, 1870, WikiArt.[/caption] Legend of two selves, two sides of self in Same mortal vessel, one in body toiling, Dawn waking, daily...

[caption id="attachment_18216" align="alignright" width="150"] "Birth of Cupid," Eustache Le Sueur, 1645-1647, WikiArt.[/caption] Part 3: Maternal Deity (Last) To this day, we speak not of what witnessed, Account on papyri scrolls...

[caption id="attachment_12038" align="alignright" width="150"] "Three Graces," Carle van Loo, 1763, Wikipedia.[/caption] Part 2: Guardians of Blood-Bestained Stone Spellbound by totems of lost sisters, gasping Visions, parents at my side, I,...

[caption id="attachment_3749" align="alignright" width="150"] Saint Thekla, 11th century fresco in Saviour Cathedral of Chernihiv, Russia, 2007, Wikipedia.[/caption] Part 1: Sanguineous Presence Sister’s running screams, faces fear-pale, Stone ghost appeared, water-trickling,...

[caption id="attachment_14245" align="alignright" width="150"] "Harmonie," Henri Martin, WikiArt.[/caption] Wandering olive groves at night, I, Cosimia, Cannot sleep, not  from worrisome dreams, They fade in time, but secret assignation, Overgrown mountain...

[caption id="attachment_9143" align="alignright" width="150"] "Debate of Socrates and Aspasia," Nicolas-Andre Monsiau, c. 1800, Wikimedia photo,.[/caption] Part 3: Lessons Lived and Learnt (Last) Worshipers on temple steps, we sought wisdom Of...