What's in a name?...

I have always held an interest in the origins of words and their meanings.In the bible one gets a sense of these great charaters in the Old Testament. So I have chosen a little writing about the biblical name of Catherine;


Musings

Of Beauty– like poetry– the old, old
pragmatic Biblical scribes
understood its position.
In the simple, clean lines of their language;
magnitudes conveyed.
The millennia cannot change you
C a t h e r i n e.
Roots of your namesake deep, well dug.
Orientation cannot alter
implication, impartation of the name
(infinitely...contained).
The envy of Helen and Hera to remain.
You have been a fourth-century Christian martyr of Alexandria;
an Empress of Russia (twice);
and a Queen of England.
From the myth of you
modern civilization took ground.
You are the stone foundation–
the allegorical anchor–
that Jason, on a bobbing, wind-beaten Argo,
sailed and sailed to secure
his frail ship
to the shore of you.