To Poseidon

To Blue-haired Poseidon I call

Earth-shaker, Sea-Ruler, Olympian

Father of thundering horse-hooves

Bringer of crashing waves

To Poseidon the Host, I call

Your halls have housed many guests:

Aphrodite

Who grew to fair womanhood in the belly of Tethys

Dionysos

Who fled there from murderous wrath

To remember himself with your handmaidens

Those who sail

For you bring foul sea currents or fair

and those who are lost at sea

And pray you to return them safely home

The drowned, your share of the dead,

Who attend you

Until Life

With it’s irresistible song

Calls them forth again.

To Poseidon, the Occult, I call

Secret keeper are you

Who sired Despoina: Her name is whispers

Whose vaults conceal ancient unknown treasures

Guarded safe against the fires of alien piety

To Poseidon I call, Who Enforces Vows

You built up Troy for the Trojans

But the promised payment they never made.

Thus, at your command

Dreaded sea monsters

Nightmares drawn from the thick shadows of the deep

Sucking tendrils and chitinous claws

Tore down walls unpaid for.

Sudden was your wrath,

Terrifying and costly,

Making their ilk

A by-word among would-be oath breakers.

To Poseidon, Martial King, I call

Mighty is your army

Spirits who haunt sea-caves

Sirens who drown the unwary

Tritones, fearsome and sharp-toothed

Charybdis and Skulla

Rise up at your command

Would any but a madman wage war

Without your blessing?

What Fool would challenge your Kingdom?

O Poseidon, make pleasant the troubled sea

Stay the wrath of volcano and caldera

With cooling waters

Restrain the Earthquake

Turn, instead, your fearsome nature

To defend those who build up your name

That we may live and be free

To sing you yet another song.