Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne lays bare, the ages, to a point, beyond which, even genius may not pass. Though, prayerful bowed petition may, of penitent respect increase, toward entry to such higher space. 

For memory, with verity, is poetry entwined...in one dear path, where Mnemosyne and all her daughter's play. Where dancing god's and goddesses delight, what seeking mortals seldom see. 

There, poet's, on occasion, rest before their day, to witness and remember some was said, the muses own receding voices...whispering their line's; that, when their rest has come, entire...their walk with those in muse'd glade's...eternally.

Written by Bruce James Clyde 2016, at Deming, New Mexico 

Art: 01 greekmythology.blogspot.com, Mnemosyne, artist unknown at present

Mnemosyne (/nᵻˈmɒzᵻniː/ or /nᵻˈmɒsᵻni/; Greek: Μνημοσύνη, pronounced [mnɛːmosýːnɛː]), source of the word mnemonic,^[2] was the personification of memory in Greek mythology. A Titanide, or Titaness, she was the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and the mother of the nine Muses by her nephew Zeus:

• Calliope (epic poetry)
• Clio (history)
• Euterpe (music)
• Erato (lyric poetry)
• Melpomene (tragedy)
• Polyhymnia (hymns)
• Terpsichore (dance)
• Thalia (comedy)
• Urania (astronomy)

In Hesiod's Theogony, kings and poets receive their powers of authoritative speech from their possession of Mnemosyne and their special relationship with the Muses.