Love Poem: Milias's Muse
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Written by: Yasemin Balandi

Milias's Muse

Milias’s Muse

She was an epicurean

To Milias's cynic

She sought pleasure in ordinary 

Things.

Her hair was scarlet

Long with large curves:

A winding labyrinth.

A true delight

For a Pre Raphaelite

 

Milias's vision was to climb up her 

Hair; into the depths of her illusions.

Milias painted her scarlet hair

Days on end;

Mixing aryclic

On a palette.

Her stillness in a coffin

Was meant to bring Ophelia

Into life:

 Tragic creation of Shakespeare!

 

Instead she was a lady of her own

Her scarlet hair all her own.

Milias' s Muse and an epicurean

In a coffin.

Her luchious lips

Seeking pleasure in 

Exotic food and the artist's flesh.

Her half open eyes

Absorbing all the beauty in

Milias's palette:

Rosy in hue like

Her illusions:

Her illusions transformed into visions;

Milias was no longer a cynic but a

 

Romantic.