Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Poem: "Dancing in Rain and Sun"

This poem was inspired and sponsored by rix_scaedu.  In case you're curious, you can read more about Dionysus and Iris.


Dancing in Rain and Sun


One day Dionysus brought his wine
to a party on Mount Olympus.
He and Iris got roaring drunk
and went to dance naked in the rain.

They were so drunk
that they tripped over a rainbow
and busted it into a billion pieces.

While Dionysus and Iris
sat on their butts in the mud,
laughing like idiots,
suddenly the sun came out
and the broken pieces took wing

and that was the beginning of butterflies.

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  • 9 comments
whuffle

whuffle

November 2 2011, 12:21:40 UTC 9 years ago

Reminds me a bit of one of the Native American tales of how butterflies came to be...

Totally off topic, I wanted to say that you did an incredible job covering Ace last week. Thank you so much for that. It was really informative.

Any chance you would consider doing a similar round on writing characters with disabilities? Yes, I know that a lot of people have covered this one, but I happen to like the way that you approach this sort of research...
ysabetwordsmith

Thank you!

ysabetwordsmith

December 1 2011, 22:21:59 UTC 9 years ago

I'm glad you enjoyed the ace posts. They have proven both popular and effective.

I might cover disabilities eventually. I've written about the topic a few times. I'd be more likely to do it if crowdfunded, though. Otherwise it'll have to wait until I need it. That's part of why I wrote the ace stuff -- I kept bumping against those issues in my writing and elsewhere, so when that happens, I tend to sit down and do a piece so I'll have the data in one convenient place.