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At dVerse Li is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write about real or imagined creatures. There’s a substantial resource that Li has put together along with four options to choose from, you can access the resource by following the link below:

dVerse Poets – Poetics – Creature Feature

I have chosen Option 2) follow the wikipedia link and choose one of Legendary Creatures to write about. I chose the minotaur. The story can be found here among many sites.

NOTE: A labyrinth is an ancient tool for meditation, discernment, rhythmic walking reflection, contemplation and more. The path inwards is also the path outwards. A labyrinth is not a maze (a maze is a puzzle to be solved and you walk through it). The labyrinth and maze are related historically but they are constructed differently and have completely different purposes. Sadly, popular culture (especially that generated by Hollywood) tends to conflate them.

Photo: taken at the entrance to the labyrinth at St. John Of God Retreat Centre, Perth, November 2018.

Hidden

Pasiphae's lusted monster
waiting to devour,
hidden in the rosette
enclosed by lunations,
appeased
in rhythmic sacrifice,
one way in
one way out,
how simple
but not,
only a thread of 
memory could help as
one loses all sense of 
direction on such an 
open, clear path,
at the centre
nothing
the minotaur gone,
or has it?
As I walk this meditation
I sense the unease I carry
which weighs heavily at
my centre.

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