waver, fall and rise up burning
HAPPILY EVER AFTER. For that little girl running free in the magical countryside, for triumphing over what evils may come, for goodness and love and the carefree sun that turns everything to gold. Some stories end just lie that—happily ever after. [listen]
1. Isabel the Strong - Steve Jablonsky // 2. Who is She - Patrick Doyle // 3. Eternal Love - Abel Korzeniowski // 4. Arrival of the Bird & Transformation - The Cinematic Orchestra // 5. Fireside Dance - Danny Elfman // 6. Queen Mab - Abel Korzeniowski // 7. Domestic Pressures - Johann Johannsson // 8. Prologue - James Newton Howard // 9. Prologue - Alan Menken // 10. Marry Me, Bella - Alexandre Desplat // 11. Shadowplay - Cirque du Soleil // 12. Flower Garden - Joe Hisaishi // 13. Theme of Love - Nobuo Uematsu // 14. Main Titles (The Little Mermaid) - Alan Menken // The Queen of Faerieland - James Newton HowardUNHAPPILY EVER AFTER. For the heartbroken little mermaid swallowed by a watery grave, for Cinderella’s step sisters’ bloody, cut up feet, and the rape of the young and innocent Sleeping Beauty. Some stories end just like that—unhappily ever after. [listen]
1. New Moon - Alexandre Desplat // 2. The Gravel Road - James Newton Howard // 3. A Princess - Javier Navarrete // 4. Aftermath - Cirque du Soleil // 5. Severus and Lily - Alexandre Desplat // 6. The Crypt Pt. 1 - Abel Korzeniowski // 7. Xibalba - Clint Mansell // 8. We All Complete - Rachel Portman // 9. Tempt Not a Desperate Man - Abel Korzeniowski // 10. Decision - Yasuharu Takanashi // 11. Davy Jones - Hans Zimmer // 12. Assassin’s Creed Theme - Lorne Balfe // 13. La Soledad de un Rey - Fredrico Jusid // 14. Temple of Sacrifice - Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil // 15. Calypso - Hans Zimmer
MYTHIC POETRY series:
The feelings soft as water, the ecstatic moment unreal as a dream, how can one have the heart to go back on the bridge made of magpies? If the two hearts are united forever, why do the two persons need to stay together—day after day, night after night?
“Meeting across the Milky Way” —Qin Guan
THE WEAVER GIRL AND THE COWHERD is a Chinese myth about a love story between Zhinu (織女; the weaver girl, symbolizing Vega) and Niulang (牛郎; the cowherd, symbolizing Altair). Their love was not allowed, thus they were banished to opposite sides of the Silver River (symbolizing the Milky Way). Once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for one day.
ares hits up in bars
incites riots, fist fights
even murders
apollo hides from the sun
dark subway stations
golden hair dyed brown
artemis watches hunters
bullets tearing through flesh
nothing graceful about a modern day hunt
aphrodite in front of a computer
naked to the waist
the cost of beauty is low these days
poseidon in a grimy raincoat
watches fishing boats return laden down with catch
knows the day will soon come that they return empty-handed
athena buried in paperwork
courtroom battles somehow not the same
as the battlefields of ancient greece
dionysus stumbling home at three
he always loved a drink (or ten)
but it’s not wine anymore
zeus at the controls of an airplane
commercial flight #AAL1634
San Fransisco to London direct
hades in a dark suit
hair slicked back
head of the biggest drugs network in europe
demeter watches in anger
as miles and miles of farmland
get turned into cities, or worse left to wither
persephone locked in a mental hospital
diagnosed with multiple personality disorder
but the pills don’t work
hermes lives on the streets
fired from the post office because
“you’re just not what we’re looking for”
hera, the haughty socialite
clings to a time when her word was law
pretends not to hear the cruel whispers
hestia dressed in rags
holds her hands too long over the fire
welcomes the burn
in another time they were worshipped
in another time they were honored
all this time can offer is cruelty
disbelief
hatred
but oh so many ways to forget yourself
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