@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Song For The Princely Solstices At Homosonoma

[anonymously appended to Eros And Ganymede At Troy, by Cerulean Of Paphos On Cyprus, translated by Nizhny Novgorod]


In the constellation, Antinous

(named by Imperator Hadrian for obvious

reasons), is safely ensconced that planetoid city---

Homosonoma.


There where males' Love is held sacred

and old prudes' and  bulliers' roiling hatred

is nullified at the delicate rings around

Homosonoma.


Hear the song the Hyperionides sing

that tell what the Princely Solstices bring---

the celebrant seasons at

Homosonoma.


Rejoice, my soul, in our given nature:

revel in it and the poetic nomenclature

that gladly accrues to it at

 

Homosonoma.



J-Called

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I am indebted to the great scholars, Taphless Gibler and Mimsy Borogove, experts on ancient, Hellenic Poetry of the Ptolemaic era, for directing me to the source of the poem .  Vadim Stepan referred me to the translation.


According to Taphless Gibler's article, "Tatters Of Yellow Cling To An Eerie Fellow" (in Toponomy Review, vol, 7, pp. 16-94, published in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1991), "Song For The Princely Solstices" became literary model for Robert W. Chambers' poem, "Cassilda's Song," in his book, The King In Yellow (1895).

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