Title: "Poetry" in Carolingia font and fiery, gold-leaf foil colorization. Base of word is a large, symmetrical Fleurons dingbat in a cobalt blue, floral scroll pattern.
Poem title: "Orpheus" in Achilles font, with a satiny sheen in bluish-purple and magenta highlights.

You looked back to see
unable to believe
in benevolent gods
in the perfection
of your song
only steps from the light
your eyes turned back
to the hell
you had become accustomed to.

Only a moment
of lost faith was needed
to break the magic
to rip out your heart
so close to resurrection.

A draped-from-the-back mostly nude Orpheus standing with a held lyre, body facing right. It's a black-line image on an off-white background. Black line has been altered to color line in a sweep from the bottom of held lyre and figure's waist to the figure's ankles; the color is a gradation from top to bottom of rose pink to orchid lavender. On the neck and right side of figure's left-turned head, lines have been colored in sunrise oranges as though he is standing before the dawn. Figure created from an Apollo dingbat from a mythology font. A draped-from-the-back mostly nude Orpheus standing with a held lyre, body facing right. It's a ghostly, gray-line image on a black background. Lined image has been altered around and above figure's upper torso so that figure appears three-dimensional, even photographic in the left-turned face. This is achieved by use of blazing highlight and illuminating reflection from a fiery patch of sunlight in the upper right corner. The impression is that of the sun reaching into the darkness of a cavern via a rock fissure. Figure created from an Apollo dingbat from a mythology font.
Poem by Tracie Cleaver, copyright 1993,
graphics 2001.


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For a reading of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice:
Bulfinch's Mythology:
http://www.bulfinch.org/
&
Carlos Parada, Greek Mythology Link, http://www.hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/


Bordered background courtesy of
Kat's Graphics


I made my "Orpheus" images with the help of
Paint Shop Pro and a mythology font from
emerald city fontwerks
http://www.speakeasy.org/~ecf/



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Gwendolen's Sea