Monthly Poem: The Siren

[rainstardragon]

 Ah, the siren. I had thought about writing about a sphinx or Cupid, but I thought that for some the darker side of love and lust would be more appropriate given the month. The siren is one of the reasons that in Kirsty's world all merfolk are viewed with such distrust, whether they are the relatively peaceful selkie, the warrior tritons, or especially the bloodthirsty siren. How I see the siren in Kirsty's world breaks into two types. 1) Those that are truthfully sirens, born so into a race embodying two of Mara's deepest desires but having been touched by the poison of Astereth in much the same way as the Finmen are. 2) Those not born into the race but are corrupted firsthand... and the paths are many. Raechel the dark selkie priestess is started down this path already.

 

And now, this month's poem:

https://youtu.be/Ejl7UQDovyY

 

The Siren

 

There upon the seastacks she stands.

A lone slim form cast beyond the land

Beckoning the mariner with raised hand

The sky tide lifting dress and strands

 

A lilting song rolls o’er the brine

“O wouldst that thou were’t mine

here beyond reach of man an’ time

and on kelp and mussels we’d dine.”

 

Her call dances over foam and sea

Form undulating, svelte, carefree

Til at last into the mar dives he

Stroking, with her daring to be.

 

When he arrives and climbs aloft

To join her on wave-kissed rock

Among the landing gull flock

With laughter does she now mock

 

Rending lover’s flesh, hot blood to drink

Ware ye better be, tottering on the brink

Of the siren that doth dance and slink.

“Is she a true lass?” thou must e’er think.

 

The fog rolls in, the bell now tolls

A widow at home her sorrow doles

Upon the wind blowing between boles

And out to the beach where laughter rolls.

 

You can hear this poem read on my Youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/Ejl7UQDovyY

 

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