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Birth of Venus

October 22, 2010
By BlackScarlett SILVER, Hanson, Massachusetts
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BlackScarlett SILVER, Hanson, Massachusetts
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"Character cannot be develped in ease and quiet. Only through expeerience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition insoired and succes achieved." -Helen Keller

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An unfathomable ocean
A dark an brilliant overcast evening
Almighty Zeus has thrown a dash
into the ocean
brackish and salty, it hit the sand
were waves bear down on rocks
slowly eroding them
a shell was glanced by a bolt an Aphrodit was born

© Tori W., Victoria, BC, Canada

The author's comments:
I started this like all my other poems about nature but, my friend got my think about Greek mythology .The poem changed. Not one of my best but still some people have liked it i hope you all enjoy it.
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