Saturday, July 19, 2014

To Artemis, Defender Of The Unborn Comments

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Daughter of the River Oblivion,
Sister of the silent, shining sun,
Mother over young Endymion,
Lover of the woods through which deer run,
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Michael Walker
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Michael Walker 21 February 2018

I did not know much about Artemis before reading your sonnet. She fits in perfectly with your argument. I oppose abortion but I also don't like the shrill emotive tactics of anti-abortionists, manly in the Catholic Church. It is too easy to become a demagogue, a rabblerouser on the subject of abortion. An objective poem, which gains from allusion to Greek mythology.

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