Weekly Haiku: Happy 30th Birthday to Quotemail!

This week, we begin a new feature on the blog by sharing a weekly haiku poem with our readers. My cousin, Rowan Hartford Chase, started collaborating with me (the Editor) on weekly haikus last January, and you can see our weekly haikus there at https://x.com/RHCLambengolmo. The weekly haiku will now be mirrored on the blog, and first up -- a very special birthday salute from Rowan!

Happy 30th Birthday to Quotemail this week! We celebrate with a haiku by my cousin Rowan:

 

"Quotemail's legacy:

Thirty years of joy and fun!

Timeless tales to tell."

 

Digital image by the Editor: The 9 Muses celebrate Quotemail's 30th birthday! Many happy returns!

 

Image Description: The 9 Muses are seated at a rectangular table in an ancient Greek temple. On the table is a giant birthday cake with candles and a golden number 30 mounted on top of the cake!

Orphic Hymn #75: "To the Muses"

Translated by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)

Daughters of Jove, dire-sounding and divine,

Renowned Pierian, sweetly speaking Nine;

To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire

Much-formed, the objects of supreme desire:

Sources of blameless virtue to mankind,

Who form to excellence the youthful mind;

Who nurse the soul, and give her to descry

The paths of right with Reason's steady eye.

Commanding queens who lead to sacred light

The intellect refined from Error's night;

And to mankind each holy rite disclose,

For mystic knowledge from your nature flows.

Clio, and Erato, who charms the sight,

With thee, Euterpe, ministering delight:

Thalia flourishing, Polyhymnia famed,

Melpomene from skill in music namd:

Terpischore, Urania heavenly bright,

With thee who gavest me to behold the light.

Come, venerable, various, powers divine,

With favoring aspect on your mystics shine;

Bring glorious, ardent, lovely, famed desire,

And warm my bosom with your sacred fire.