Adultress Poems

Picture This Half Of The Sky

A terrified woman in India
Burned beyond recognition
Her husband enraged
... She could not beg.

An outcast girl in Iran
Beaten, shamed, then stoned
the adultress lie
... She could not convince.

A woman and her children in Juarez
Working for mean, meager...Read More

Never mind


He’s a cool cat, as a matter of fact
And there ain’t no doubting how you feel about that.
Whilst I am just a pig wallowing in the mud
And I will never be good enough.


She is an ice Queen;
She ain’t no...Read More

She is the scarlet woman
Accused and tried
Made to wear shame as a veil
To be prejudiced by the society
Somehow I wonder if soceity is wrong
She is a whore, an adultress 
A witch who deserves no pity 
At least that what mother...Read More

She wades in anoxic swamps
She feels with her heart
Her mind never still
Her soul torn apart

She craves understanding
She craves conversation
Her thirst for the dark things
Precedes her reputation

She is never sated
She is never stilled
The void in her heart
Crying out to be filled...Read More

Silken, lying in his arms,
Within fair summer’s balmy clutch,
When all life’s trials seem too much,
She revels in his gentle touch.

And all the men of all the farms 
Will drool over my lady fair, 
Dressed in crimson, shoulders bare,
Who seems to...Read More

A
tad too
close to home-
to throw the first
stone.

Ekhrasis after Christ and the Adultress by Rembrandt...Read More