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Phthia Moira The Emerald Heights World School, Indore · India Poetry · June 2026
Spilled urns of the sun
Light scatters as the hand pulls
Mourning the pearl moon
Author's Note This is a haiku, inspired by Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles — the knowing feeling where we go insane for someone or something we know we can't have, but we still keep trying, slowly marching towards the foretold ending we knew aeons ago but never stopped.
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About the Author Phthia Moira The Emerald Heights World School, Indore · India

Phthia Moira is a writer from The Emerald Heights World School in Indore, India. Her work draws on Greek myth and its figures of endurance, solitude, and the weight the world asks a person to carry.

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