{"id":157,"date":"2018-12-17T06:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:30:27","slug":"themis-the-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/themis-the-goddess\/","title":{"rendered":"Themis &#8211; The Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<p>I, Themis, goddess known of earth and law,<br \/>\nDispensing justice most divine. Again,<br \/>\nAm here to tell my story with some awe.<\/p>\n<p>My parents, Earth and Heaven they do reign,<br \/>\nUranus ruled the Heavens but not Earth,<br \/>\nBut Gaea ruled the Earth as her domain.<\/p>\n<p>My mother shared the earth with me at birth,<br \/>\nBut I excelled in justice in my time,<br \/>\nAnd this is what is known as my &#8220;life&#8217;s worth&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An inescapable goddess that to whom<br \/>\nThe gods must even yield to and submit,<br \/>\nAs my wise words were always, so sublime.<\/p>\n<p>As Delphi Oracle too, Zeus admits,<br \/>\nI make a trusted new advisor now,<br \/>\nSo at the side of Zeus is where I sit.<\/p>\n<p>The mortals I gave laws and that allows<br \/>\nA peace to reign in my beloved mankind,<br \/>\nSo evil would not rule or be aroused.<\/p>\n<p>The fates and seasons now come into mind,<br \/>\nAnd I tell you now they are gods and more,<br \/>\nBut are my children too and so refined.<\/p>\n<p>The fates they deal mankind&#8217;s life and deaths door,<br \/>\nas well as, ones true lot in life will be,<br \/>\nBut seasons there are three instead of four.<\/p>\n<p>I have more children so let me now see,<br \/>\nHesperides the nymphs did watch fruit grow.<br \/>\nEnough about them, lets talk more on me.<\/p>\n<p>You say you built a statue to bestow<br \/>\nMy role as goddess? Look the scales I hold<br \/>\nFor weighing claims of parties now opposed.<\/p>\n<p>My tale is done, as gifts I now behold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Poem Style &#8211; Terra Rima \/ Poem Catagory &#8211; History<\/p>\n<p>Written by Lady Kathleen<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Written as if she was telling her own story in a way that a goddess would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, Themis, goddess known of earth and law, Dispensing justice most divine. Again, Am here to tell my story with some awe. My parents, Earth and Heaven they do reign, Uranus ruled the Heavens but not Earth, But Gaea ruled the Earth as her domain. My mother shared the earth with me at birth, But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":"","twitter_62031022_62031022":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,16],"tags":[63,100,154,162,163,196,239,279,300,352,397,458,494,528,540,576,633,655,773,809,834,856],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-terra-rima","tag-awe","tag-catagory","tag-deaths","tag-delphi","tag-delphi-oracle","tag-earth-and-heaven","tag-fates","tag-gaea","tag-goddess","tag-history","tag-lady-kathleen","tag-mankind","tag-mortals","tag-nymphs","tag-oracle","tag-poem","tag-rima","tag-scales","tag-terra-rima","tag-uranus","tag-wise-words","tag-zeus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/files\/2019\/02\/themis2-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKwh0-2x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}