Taming Medusa in the Garden

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Safari World, Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by the author.

I am Perseus unafraid and tamed,

     sans my mirror shield;

for I will turn into stone no more, 

     in this Garden I yield.  

Monsters thrive where ugliness resides

     and hides the beautiful; 

the victim seeing  the venomous hair;

     and not the green veil full.

Life is a Medusa lurking somewhere,

    for the hero's great heir,

either he slays her, or clothes her

    with flowers in her hair. ~  

  

Perseus slays Medusa by sculptor Benvenuto Cellini