Aeschylus' Oresteia: Sedoka: The Kindly Ones

[clarasteam]

Title: The Kindly Ones
Fandom: Aeschylus, Oresteia
Length: 26 words
Content notes: no warnings apply.
Author notes: for kalypso
Badge notes: this is my 25th posted work
Summary: What happens next?



Goddess Athena
renames them Eumenides,
offers them red robes, a shrine.

Deep in their new home
under the earth of Athens,
the Furies mutter and growl.



Technical note: The website Shadow Poetry defines sedoka as "an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
A katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7."

Comments

[mrkinch]

Bravo! You won't be surprised that I love structured words, and this is satisfying and chilling.

[clarasteam]

thank you! I'm glad it worked for you.

[kalypso]

I always thought it was a good move, trying to persuade them that the draw was a win. But then you can never be sure with those Old Gods.

I like the balance of the katauta - Athena and Athens; Eumenides and Furies; shrine and home.

Congratulations on your quarter-century!

[clarasteam]

thank you! I'm glad you like the balance - it took a while to find the form I wanted but I'm happy with this one.

[smallhobbit]

So glad you found something to write. This is very clever.

[clarasteam]

Thank you! I'm glad you like it, and thanks for your encouragement.