Greek myth still lives

In our culture and is

The way we describe

The world and

The universe.

Poor Pluto always gets

The short end of the

Stick.

A son of Titans

Who shares the power

With Zeus and Poseidon

But his share is under

The earth where he

Watches over the dead

And makes certain

All things grow.

He lives in hell with

His kidnapped bride

Who emerges from

The earth Apollo has

Warmed from the sky.

Now Pluto, once a dark

Planet on the outskirts

Of space, may not be

More than a comet or its trace.

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Copyright © 2012 William Frank. Bellais

All rights reserved.

From: 180^th Meridian and Other Poems and Reflections, Create Space, 2012.

Photos: Rape of Proserpina by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1621-22, int Galleria Borghese, Rome.

The dwarf planet Pluto, NASA.