Siren's Song by Colin and Kristine Poole

Title:	Siren's Song
Date Created:	2024
Copyright:	© Colin and Kristine Poole
Genre:	Fantasy
Mediums:	Clay, Sculpture
Views:	151
Posted:	12/7/2025

Sirens have been portrayed in historical art as part woman, part bird or as mermaids. Why this discrepancy? Perhaps the non-human appendages of the Sirens were unlike anything known and the words to describe them simply did not exist. Were the forms billowing around these creatures fabric, feathers, fins? Even with their human elements, Sirens were beings of nature. We don't condemn the hummingbird for the reverberation of its wings nor are the bees reviled for buzzing as they make their rounds. Perhaps the Sirens' undulating forms dancing on the ocean breeze created alluring sounds different from anything heard before and the only word that seemed to describe this sound was singing. Rather than the evil seductresses of men, the Sirens may have just been other creatures on the planet, with beauty swirling around them and emanating from them. If a child chasing a free-spirited butterfly takes a tumble, is it then the butterfly that is to blame?