On February 8, 1998, Kym Kennedy deleted her pages - SoHo/Studios/7592 - "A Modern Muse".
Your creativity, passion, and your company will be sadly missed.
This page is dedicated to bringing to the web just a glimpse of what is now lost.
CLIO
Muse of History, her name derives from the Greek kleos (glory) or kleiein (to celebrate).
She is depicted as a virgin with a laurel wreath, a trumpet in one hand and a volume in the
other one.
NEW YEAR'S DAY NIGHT, 1993
The years run faster,
faster, exhale more deeply
than my life can; so
let my puppy keep up,
eagerly chewing days from rawhide--
my child, my only child
who hasn't barked at even one
year yet. created to hunt badgers,
he's dug a perfect hole for my love.
I won't invent once-yearly promises
to sleep on a pampered piece of paper
never snoring, never waking.
I have no discipline (they say)
no resolve to untangle complexities.
But my chair hugs my desires,
content in contuinueing support
as I study words suspended in air;
Tomorrow is hanging day
Where are the people
who can see?
Kym J. Kennedy
EUTERPE
Camille Roqueplan
Muse of Music. Her name means she who makes herself loved and she is usually
represented as a maid crowned with a flower garland, playing the instrument she
invented, the flute.
THALIA
Jean Marc Nattier French 1685-1766
Muse of Comedy, her name derives from the Greek thallein (to bloom). She is depicted
as a young woman crowned with an ivy garland, holding a mask and wearing ankle boots.
NIGHT SHADOWS
Bats.
Bats and madwomen
Bats, madwomen and dogs lost from home
scurry in the small hours.
I cannot sleep. Gently,
only gently dare I touch
with the time-frayed fingers and tremors - -
that refection of a shadow
night finds bending in moonlight,
passing in sudden silence;
that reflection which is you.
Kym J. Kennedy
MELPOMENE
"Hesoid and the Muse" Gustave Moreau...1820-1898
Muse of Tragedy. Her name comes from the Greek melpein (to sing). She is represented
as a woman in buskins, holding a sceptre and a dagger covered in blood.
HEALING (BY THE SEA)
The heart of my body recalls
a torture incomplete.
Not weaned, eager to be loved;
I search for a milky breast,
penduous longings.
Who can see the shape of forgiveness?
Sea.
A sort of adult baptism,
the present arrived so quickly;
anemic and pulverized, coated
with the brine of blood,
broken seashells of the past.
Who will conceal me?
Beach.
My denuded fears howl,
death throes of the aching.
There's no guaranteed after...
no life to disappoint the night,
but I hold the wind in hand.
What can be found?
Healing.
Kym J. Kennedy revised 08/22/89
HOUNDS OF MIND
Ghosts with sunset eyes
approach with arrogance,
pursue my today.
I, encircled by reluctance,
futilely fight
the tormentors' commanding gaze.
I trust twilight,
already a pillar of lost words.
Madness
.......Plays in my grooves,
.......shortens the hem of my character,
.......encounters disordered graves,
but gives me apricots out of season.
Kym J. Kennedy
TERPSICHORE
Jean Marc Nattier French 1685-1766
Muse of Dance. Her name means she who loves dance. She is depicted as a young
woman, crowned with flower garlands, who dances and plays the harp.
ERATO
Muse of lyric Poetry and Anacreontic Poetry, her name derives from the Greek Eros
(love). She is represented as a nymph crowned with myrtle and roses, holding a lyre and a
bow.
JUST FRIENDS
It seems my love for you
is not my salvation;
I wish you would love me
as a lover loves.
I try to slow my heartbeat,
I camouflage my eyes, keep
my heands to myself,
try not to care
toomuch.
I want the contentment of my cats
who sleep in the sun,
eat when they want,
get petted and play.
But I don't have
four legs and fur.
Longing....
always this longing.
Kym J. Kennedy 10/04/92
POLYHYMNIA
Roman Mosiac 240A.D.
Muse of Rhetoric and of vocal Music, her name comes from the Greek poly (many) and
hymnos (hymn), or from mnasthai (to remember). She is depicted with a flower or pearl
crown, dressed in white, her right arm in the act of haranguing, her left hand holding a
sceptre.
URANIA
Simone Vouet
French 1590-1649
Muse of Astronomy. Her name comes from the Greek ouranos (sky) and she is
represented as a virgin holding a globe and a bar.
JUST REACH
Do you think empathy
and courageous caring,love
are antiquated emotions?
With chameleon skin
you try to push me away,
but my heart is stubborn.
Remember the oceans's eternity.
Take my gentle hand,
I'll help you nagivate.
Kym J. Kennedy revised 06/25/91
CALLIOPE
Simone Vouet
French 1590-1649
Muse of Eloquence and heroic Poetry. Her name means fine voice and she is depicted
with stylus and tablets.
