Horror Haiku Club Prompt
September 24 - Dionysus
As an avowed lush, I couldn’t leave out the god of the grape harvest. As I type this I have a deliciously sweet and spicy Pinot Noir sitting next to me. Yeah, I’m a Dionysus fan girlie. But he’s much more than just the god of theatre, wine, festivity, harvests, and fertility. Dionysus has a dark side.
Your prompt is DIONYSUS
Dance among the vines
Their sweet scent and honied juice
Awakens madness
He’s also the god insanity and ritual madness, said to drive his followers to depraved acts of sex and bloodletting.
Dionysian rites
Pomp and circumstance, performed
Once the bull is slain
The master of the revels, he retained his importance in Roman mythology as Bacchus.