Melisenda (Part 2)

Melisenda... another name for Kali? lol. I am very much liking this poem, John. The last two lines are a killer. ~A spelling: empress & four... "There is a kind of mysticism to writing." ~ Irvine Welsh

This is exquisite John... reminds me of my favourite myth, that of Melusine... Mélusine (The Honeyed One) was cursed to become a serpent from the waist down every Saturday. This would be her fate until she met a man who would marry her under the condition that he never saw her on a Saturday while she took her bath. Melusine (Melusina, Mellusine and Merlusine) is a Breton heroine known from the folk tale of the 'Fairy Melusine' where she is typically represented as a woman who is half fish or half serpent. She marries a mortal, Raimond De Lusignan, Count of Poitou, but makes him promise that he will never try to find out what she does each Saturday. Promising him that if he breached his oath he would forever be deprived of she whom he loved so much. From her great wealth she created for him the castle of Lusignan right next to the Fountain of Thirst, where they had first seen each other. Of course, Raimond's cuiriosity gets the better of him and he seeks out Melusine on a Sautrday and as a result she is lost to him. I love Melusine... I even have a cat name Melusine... Thank you, for the sweet memory... Raven "Who can tell the dancer from the dance?" -William Butler Yeats