Saturday, December 28, 2019
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To Flower
by Michael R. Burch
When Pentheus ['grief'] went into the mountains in the garb of the bacchae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by Dionysus, tore him apart (Euripides, Bacchae; Apollodorus 3.5.2; Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.511-733; Hyginus, Fabulae 184) . The agave dies as soon as it blooms; the moonflower, or night-blooming cereus, is a desert plant of similar fate.
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8/16/2025 8:30:09 PM # 1.0.0
Interesting and very informative about mythology. I like the depth and stirring emotions of a flower with so brief a life to exist and yet gives us lessons on the brevity of life - for us all.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. I've also written poems about mayflies, but we may seem like mayflies to quahog clams that live 500 years or longer!