Ode To Virginia

...for Virginia Woolf


Seashells hiss her mystery, 
leaves and flowers whisper 
her humanity; lambent lines 
of plangent wisdom, stories 
of loneliness coated with love
and compassion, poetic 
and rich in description.
Shackled in a masculine 
environment, a room of her own 
to create her ineffable prose, 
a well-spring of joys and regrets.

A secluded stream disposed of her, 
weighted and swirled where indifference 
would no longer vex her to heaven 
that welcomed her shimmering soul,
unsored by an unfriendly world.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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