Populating

[dukealien]

Populating


Deucalion casts
seminal stones behind him
blindly sowing sons.

[just mercedes]

Clever little verse. I like the idea of semen as stones, weapons fired blindly. Great ssssssslithery sounds. Also like the idea of sowing into the watered ground, as if the destruction of most of mankind was a sort of ploughing. This also brings to my mind the sowing of the dragon's teeth, which all turned into soldiers. You've covered a lot of ground, Deucalion! And you've done it all in a 5/7/5. Kudos!

[dukealien]

Clever little verse. I like the idea of semen as stones, weapons fired blindly. Great ssssssslithery sounds. Also like the idea of sowing into the watered ground, as if the destruction of most of mankind was a sort of ploughing. This also brings to my mind the sowing of the dragon's teeth, which all turned into soldiers. You've covered a lot of ground, Deucalion! And you've done it all in a 5/7/5. Kudos!

Thanks!   But "seminal" as in having to do with seeds or concepts, too?  And I could have said he was getting his rocks off, but didn't.

A companion poem for Pyrrha, his wife, is slowly forming...

[just mercedes]

Yes - seminal as seeds or concepts also refers back to semen, new life engendered. I look forward to the next.