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2025-12-23
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Greek myology poems

Chapter 2: The girl who outran the sun

Summary:

This one is the story of Daphne and Apollo and I'm really proud of it

Notes:

The story of Daphne and Apollo for anyone who doesn't know is about a nymph named Daphne who Eros shot with an arrow making her despise/the first person she saw (I don't know which one is the correct one) Eros also shot Apollo with an arrow causing him to fall in love with Daphne. Daphne starts running from him and he chases her, eventually she gets too tired to keep running and turns herself into a tree then Apollo renames the tree Loral and make the tree immortal, making it an evergreen tree

That's the myth in a nutshell and the poem is loosely based off of that if you couldn't tell by the name and rest of the note

Chapter Text

They once called her Daphne, daughter of a river god
Wild and kind
And when the sun knocked on her door she felt sick and Disgust
They once called her Daphne, daughter of a river god
Young and a huntress
And when the heart shot her with that arrow she grew sick at the thought of love
They once called her Daphne, daughter of a river god
She loved to run
And when the sun knocked on her door and said her name she ran
And she ran
They once called her Daphne, daughter of a river god
She grew tired of the run
And the chase
They once called her Daphne, daughter of a river god
And as her legs turned to roots and her hair turned to leaves
A voice
Gentle and honeyed
Said to the nymph they called Daphne
“I rename you lorel, daughter of rivers and crown of victors”
They once called her Daphne, daughter of a river god
But the earth renamed her
victory

Notes:

I have more of these I will post at other times so I hope you like this

Some of my other works:
A lonely year
Stay golden
It's quiet here

Thank you for reading this relatively short poem stay safe and happy holidays!!!