Notes About The Poem
It all came about when Maya Angelou read some of my poetry on the Internet, in the early days, and liked it enough to contact me and take me under her wings and giving me lots of tips and advice on poetry and writing that I still use to this very day. She said for me to study Poe in depth and connect with his inner secrets of writing, which I did. It resulted in many poems and a couple short stories, and I felt as if Poe himself had indeed connected with my inner being while writing. I believe Maya Angelou knew this when she suggested I follow my inborn poetic instinct and get with Poe.
Looking For Ligeia
LOOKING FOR LIGEIA -- One poem that came out of Maya Angelou wanting and insisting to me to study Edgar Alan Poe, was my introduction to LIGEIA, for those who do not know, Ligeia was a beautiful wife of (Poe) as the narrator of the short story LIGEIA. (Of course not Poe's real wife just in the story, sort of like another Annabel Lee there never was either a real Annabel Lee nor was there a real Ligeia.) Anyway here is the poem I wrote based on Poe's immortal short story LIGEIA.
LOOKING FOR LIGEIA
The last of feigning death, love now abides,
tuburculin, infectious, inside her breast,
she breaths emotion where your hope now hides,
and clings to what Melpomene knows best.
Dear tragedy of love deep in her eyes,
to love we die, or never love one bit,
your soul--once doomed to Hell--see now it flies
renouncing every hope of ending it.
Consuming as is love, the hate must flow,
each seething, creeping, loathing will to fly,
against what hope is left to even show,
to know the deep of someone, is to die.
All of your will, which dieth not for cause,
has ended short of knowing who she was.
© ron wilson aka ron arbuthnot
aka vee bdosa the doylestown poet
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