To you, Orpheus
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Based on ancient mythology, mostly of Greek/Roman origin.
First one was originally a Bengali poem of mine, written in my late teens, about Orpheus and his lady love Eurydice. Not necessarily I'll follow the original myth. Deviate and improvise, modern take or even twisted version, all of them you can expect here.
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