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Best Famous Handbag Poems

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Written by Pablo Neruda | Create an image from this poem

Ode To The Artichoke

 The artichoke 
With a tender heart 
Dressed up like a warrior, 
Standing at attention, it built 
A small helmet 
Under its scales 
It remained 
Unshakeable, 
By its side 
The crazy vegetables 
Uncurled 
Their tendrills and leaf-crowns, 
Throbbing bulbs, 
In the sub-soil 
The carrot 
With its red mustaches 
Was sleeping, 
The grapevine 
Hung out to dry its branches 
Through which the wine will rise, 
The cabbage 
Dedicated itself 
To trying on skirts, 
The oregano 
To perfuming the world, 
And the sweet 
Artichoke 
There in the garden, 
Dressed like a warrior, 
Burnished 
Like a proud 
Pomegrante.
And one day Side by side In big wicker baskets Walking through the market To realize their dream The artichoke army In formation.
Never was it so military Like on parade.
The men In their white shirts Among the vegetables Were The Marshals Of the artichokes Lines in close order Command voices, And the bang Of a falling box.
But Then Maria Comes With her basket She chooses An artichoke, She's not afraid of it.
She examines it, she observes it Up against the light like it was an egg, She buys it, She mixes it up In her handbag With a pair of shoes With a cabbage head and a Bottle Of vinegar Until She enters the kitchen And submerges it in a pot.
Thus ends In peace This career Of the armed vegetable Which is called an artichoke, Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart.


Written by Sylvia Plath | Create an image from this poem

The Other

 You come in late, wiping your lips.
What did I leave untouched on the doorstep--- White Nike, Streaming between my walls? Smilingly, blue lightning Assumes, like a meathook, the burden of his parts.
The police love you, you confess everything.
Bright hair, shoe-black, old plastic, Is my life so intriguing? Is it for this you widen your eye-rings? Is it for this the air motes depart? They rae not air motes, they are corpuscles.
Open your handbag.
What is that bad smell? It is your knitting, busily Hooking itself to itself, It is your sticky candies.
I have your head on my wall.
Navel cords, blue-red and lucent, Shriek from my belly like arrows, and these I ride.
O moon-glow, o sick one, The stolen horses, the fornications Circle a womb of marble.
Where are you going That you suck breath like mileage? Sulfurous adulteries grieve in a dream.
Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself.
I scratch like a cat.
The blood that runs is dark fruit--- An effect, a cosmetic.
You smile.
No, it is not fatal.