The Frog Prince Revisited a poem by Stephanie Pope for Mythopoetry Scholar Volume One january, 2010; publisher mythopoetry.com
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Mythopoetry Scholar Volume One January, 2010
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Frog Prince Revisited
by Stephanie Pope

cloth boy
clothed in manhood
green in god head
a manifest
more vital than formal
alive in all ages
yet more and more the threads
of different figures joined
blended and crossed curiously
are manifest more vital than formal
more and more true;
erichthonian tearer up and grounded
grind 'er down (my ground, my gritty)
a hill-torn art is too newly formed
with softer-colored undetermined sheen
like color-sheer mirror-tempered
redoubling seas; god-magical, this boy
always en fans

he carries not across
a cross in the mien
the fullness is to come
not across but a word
aged coat upon a stick thrown down to thread
ferries the word in hands clapped to itself
carries the word to itself by its
self, veiled and storied; a word that is its own story
carries the lived thing into surfaces and

onward the sole thread runs still
through all things different in lights
the knit more difficult to read, but truer
because of it


-1st published in Tonight: An Anthology of World Love Poetry, © August, 2008 Poet's Printery, South Africa

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Stephanie Pope

Author Bio

Cultural mythologer, Stephanie Pope continues her exploration in mythopoetics throughout literature and life as essayist, publisher and teacher. She teaches DreamWork & Musing Life on line through mythopoetry.com. Published in numerous poetry journals which include the premier issues of Literary House and A Hudson View International, Stephanie received Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry in 2007, 2008 and 2009.


Publications

mythopoetry.com © 2001-2010
Mythopoetry Scholar © January, 2010
Like A Woman Falling: Collected Poems stephanie pope © 2004 mythicartistpress
Note: This edition of the collected poems of Stephanie Pope will no longer be available for purchase March 1, 2010


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by Stephanie Pope



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The Dew Maiden
by Stephanie Pope


-1st published in Tonight: An Anthology of World Love Poetry, © August, 2008 Poet's Printery, South Africa




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