Lady Labyrinth Poet Free verse

50 Words For Poe: Lillith

“50 Words for Poe: Lillith”



Lillith was a cat on a hot tin roof
all coiled up ready to spring

Cat on a hot tin roof
dancing bare feet on a bare floor, cold bed without springs, locked in her own mind, a locked door

you could feel the heat rising off her
like heat when rain hits blistering bitumen, steam slowly raising the atmosphere, electric, charged

She smelt like heat and rain 
and fresh cut silver grass and lemonade

Her mind was like the ocean

She rolled her hips as she swayed in her tight skirt
bare feet in a room next to Terror 

In Room No.9 
Lillith, kind of entranced in her own fire, wired

Turns her back on shadows
in the mirror

Terror’s knocking on her wall
She turns up the music in her mind, higher

She was New
after all


(LadyLabyrinth/2019)




https://youtu.be/dhGETVlOM0Y




“Melts in the wall.
And I
Am the arrow,

The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red

Eye, the cauldron of morning.”





“We are all living in an illusion and mistaking it for reality.”

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Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:58 AM “When the Devil was a woman, When Lilith wound Her ebony hair in heavy braids, And framed Her pale features all 'round With Botticelli's tangled thoughts, When she, smiling softly, Ringed all her slim fingers In golden bands with brilliant stones,

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:57 AM When she leafed through Villiers And loved Huysmans, When she fathomed Maeterlinck's silence And bathed her Soul In Gabriel d'Annunzio's colors, She even laughed And as she laughed, The little princess of serpents sprang Out of her mouth. Then the most beautiful of she-devils Sought after the serpent,

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:56 AM She seized the Queen of Serpents With her ringed finger, So that she wound and hissed Hissed, hissed And spit venom. In a heavy copper vase; Damp earth, Black damp earth She scattered upon it. Lightly her great hands caressed This heavy copper vase All around,

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:55 AM Her pale lips lightly sang Her ancient curse. Like a children's rhyme her curses chimed, Soft and languid Languid as the kisses, That the damp earth drank From her mouth, But life arose in the vase, And tempted by her languid kisses, And tempted by those sweet tones, From the black earth slowly there crept, Orchids -

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:54 AM When the most beloved Adorns her pale features before the mirror All 'round with Botticelli's adders, There creep sideways from the copper vase, Orchids- Devil's blossoms which the ancient earth, Wed by Lilith's curse To serpent's venom, has borne to the light Orchids- The Devil's blossoms- "The Diary Of An Orange Tree” ? Hanns Heinz Ewers, Nachtmahr: Strange Tales

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:51 AM https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/lilith-lady-flying-in-darkness/

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:48 AM “She is the harbinger of nightmares as well as death, destruction, and insanity. Said to reign in an alternate dimension, a bleak and desertlike twilight version of reality, Lilith has long been hailed as the queen of mental darkness.”

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:47 AM https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/Lilith

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:36 AM https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49001/ariel

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:35 AM https://genius.com/Tori-amos-liquid-diamonds-lyrics

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:34 AM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

Lady Labyrinth March 23, 2019 at 5:33 AM https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1997/07/27/and-just-who-was-lilith-anyway/7d1cde6c-9b14-461e-ae14-8b6c85a754ea/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cef5e173dc6a