[Lady Jag]

The Gift of Writing

There is a word in every poem, one that is so hard to write, but if you can write one sentence more. Then the gift is yours to take wherever. It is a gift, to be able to write, and show what you can do. Some write a letter, and they think that's hard. Others write a note, which may seem easy. It is a gift when out comes a story, and from that story, becomes a book, A book that will go on, and on until you write another. Then you will never want to stop Writing is no talent it is a gift, a gift of creation, that only God can give. His greatest creation was Mother Earth, and too us his gift was love. The gift of writing came from him too. When he picked you out and placed the pen in your hand. . sylvia spencer

[potlatch]

Very nice LJ! Here is something that you and I can appreciate.

[Soaring Feather]

The Gift of Writing

What a fabulous find! I love that. Sometimes, I question if I can really write, or do I think I can write. Never know where the answer will come from. Thanks.

[Lady Jag]

Greek Muses have been assigned to poetry styles.

Though the Muses, when taken together, form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art, the association of specific muses with specific art forms is a later innovation. The Muses were not assigned standardized divisions of poetry with which they are now identified until late Hellenistic times. The canonical nine Muses, with their fields of patronage, as established since the Renaissance, are:

                   Calliope (the 'beautiful of speech'): chief of the muses and muse of epic or heroic poetry

                   Clio (the 'glorious one'): muse of history

                   Erato (the 'amorous one'): muse of love or erotic poetry, lyrics, and marriage songs

                   Euterpe (the 'well-pleasing'): muse of music and lyric poetry

                   Melpomene (the 'chanting one'): muse of tragedy

                   Polyhymnia or Polymnia (the '[singer] of many hymns'): muse of sacred song, oratory, lyric, singing and rhetoric

                   Terpsichore (the '[one who] delights in dance'): muse of choral song and dance

                   Thalia (the 'blossoming one'): muse of comedy and bucolic poetry

                   Urania (the 'celestial one'): muse of astronomy