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blacknova
blacknova

Medusa

Towering marble columns spiral into the murky grey sky. Dim light illuminates the filthy cracked overgrown courtyard. Poisonous jade green ivy curls around the eerie bone white statues.

46 11 125 words
Bluegerbil
Bluegerbil

Pandora

Box. Unopened. Carved of stone. Gift. Wedding. Took it home. Tempt. Question. Why can't I. No. Padlock. Softly sigh. Days. Passing. Temptation grew. Wish. Opening. Wouldn't you. Soon. Leaving.

100 22 110 words
blacknova
blacknova

Ares

Cruel blades strike each other in a earsplitting clash of fierce metal. Eyes filled with mad rage look to the bloody battlefield. Screams of the dying tear through the humid air.

22 9 135 words
blacknova
blacknova

The Minotaur And The Labyrinth

Towering cold stone walls cast eerie black shadows over the rough path. Tripping and stumbling on razor sharp rocks I sprint breathlessly through the terrifying Labyrinth.

34 15 307 words
blacknova
blacknova

Calliope

Shining ebony hair tumbled in soft ringlets. Glittering sapphire eyes watched the peaceful world go by. Vivid crimson and cerulean dyed her rich toga.

20 3 139 words
Thalia
Thalia

Thalia

Since everyone seems to be explaining their name, But when it stops making sense- I'm not to blame.

12 5 196 words
blacknova
blacknova

Hephaestus

The sweltering forge stood in a quiet hidden valley with lush jade grass. The metal workshop glittered in the glowing sun that hung high the blue sky.

30 15 189 words
blacknova
blacknova

The Underworld And Hades

The black cave walls dripped icy water that splattered to the earth breaking the eerie silence. Inky water slithered in through the winding rock passages.

38 8 355 words
blacknova
blacknova

Zeus

Bruised sheathing clouds cover the brilliant heavens casting the earth into darkness. Jagged lighting tore the sky apart in an explosion of dazzling light.

46 17 147 words
blacknova
blacknova

Artemis

The metallic moon hung high in the ebony night. A million stars twinkled down from the ancient heavens lighting the silent forest. The tall trees look like white gold giving the world an eerie beauty.

48 11 182 words
blacknova
blacknova

Poseidon

Pearly white stallions galloped in the foamy waves. Gleaming moon light pierced the cool salty ocean. Beautiful coral covered the sandy sea bed.

50 12 124 words
magicmilkshake
magicmilkshake

Guardian Angel Pt3

-5:10am- Urgh I'm defiantly gonna get rid of this stupid clock, I stumbled down stairs to see a note on the kitchen table, "kalimara.

2 8 1121 words
lauraessex
lauraessex

The Minotaur

It's first victim entered. Furious and menacing, the Minotaur viciously stampeded down the never ending pathways of the desolate labyrinth.

14 12 136 words
DrCarrow
DrCarrow

Medusa

A spirit. A ghost. Drifting as light. From body. From corpse. Up to the night. A ballad. A tune. From glimmering form. A life. A thought. But something to mourn. Just drifting. Just gliding.

12 0 110 words
Latrodectus
Latrodectus

Pandoras Box

Ignorance is bliss. Innocence is lost. Should've known better, to open pandoras box, What you don't know Can't hurt you, Or so tells the rhyme, But now I just sit here, Running out of time.

14 2 84 words
eddie12309
eddie12309

Picture Postcard #2 A Greek Tragedy

A fathers grief, trapped forever in stone. Many gather round, but I feel alone. This ancient site, with ghosts from the past. The setting sun, allows the feeling to last.

30 6 140 words
Hiilwis
Hiilwis

Alone

It makes no sense at all Should there not be reason. Should there be condition. People judge by there ways, I understand not.

20 2 124 words
Odd
Odd

Persephone

#nightdwellers I've never felt so alone. Although I'm not on my own. Surround by people... yet here I am, The only one stood still in the sea of the damned.

58 5 110 words
Timmsyy
Timmsyy

Minotaur

He saw a girl, astonished by her beauty But as guard of the Labyrinth he continued his duty For his long bull's horns and human legs His humanity, he no longer begs He is taken by a beautiful girl.

16 4 150 words
IndiaSparrow
IndiaSparrow

The Midas Touch

They say you have it, The Midas touch A wish you wanted for years But now you see the downside when You can't dry your daughter's tears Your fantasies gave all be realised Rich beyond wildest...

24 6 138 words
hiddenartist372
hiddenartist372

The Forrest Path…

APOLLO~ I wake to a new wave of pain. The room is of stone,cold and hard…unforgiving.

4 1 379 words
hiddenartist372
hiddenartist372

The Forrest Path…

ARTEMIS~ "Okay. I finally finished!" "Apollo?" I looked up at the tree he should be sitting in, Only his bow and arrows lay on the branch. "Ugh,only Apollo would do that…", I thought.

10 15 247 words
OdinsFist
OdinsFist

Myth Hunter: Final

@overskill Zeus stood there. Before my eyes. My face hardened. This was it, the moment I'd been waiting for. Training for. I draw my wakizashi, eyes shooting daggers at the god before me.

6 5 451 words
Delilah
Delilah

Don't Cry For Me

When I am gone mourn me not my friends Though Persephone should claim me for her own To toil in Hades gloomiest caverns And now down to her at a corpse-drapped throne, Though the death knell chimes...

10 2 116 words
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