Artwork © Ira Joel Haber

 

Athena

Goddess of reason
Do not commit treason
Goddess of wisdom
Powerful in her kingdom
Goddess of war
She always wants more

Daughter of Zeus
The power he likes to diffuse
Just a little girl
You were made to twirl
Not be the reason for war
But she’s power galore

Zeus’s headache
The bond would break
Born in armor
She has a humor
Goddess of wisdom
You hoped she’d become

Zeus ate counsel
She wanted a castle
Her power was relentless
Thought she was senseless
Goddess of reason
This is the moment she seizes

 

Kaylyn Mellace is a student at Salem State University.

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had nine one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum,The Albright-Knox Art Gallery & The Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006 His paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 300 online and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. in 2017 & 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.