Best Beatrice Poems

Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors transmigrate my mind
O to graze with the deer, dear
the tree never falls silently
lizards scatter, birds scurry to flight
i could never buy into falling silence
let...

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to be in love again
like before.  like the movie.
when you can feel the universes are
all
just the right size
and everything fits like a

glove...

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the Beatrice
every man needs no matter
how strong or kind
to lead him into love's light
as I have found with you...

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Beatrice


Dante's Beatrice left him to swim in the misery of so close and so far away. She allowed him to travel to hell and back to find her. His misery taught him and us. Best to try to live a good life than swim in...

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Beatrice
lives down the block
she
likes her porch
she has a big
darning basket
with socks 
and yarn
Beatrice
lives in that rocking chair
I swear
back and forth
when we run by to the store
for popsicles
she never gets one...

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It was as recently as yesterday
that noble Benedick was heard to say
that he would never see his wedding day.

Beatrice as a lady also denied
that the day would come when she'd be a bride.

These two loved one another deep down inside.
Right up to the present, this...

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Beatrice listens to Ursula and cousin Hero.
Those two speak loud enough so Beatrice will know.
She cannot believe what those two women say.
Benedick is madly in love with her today?
Three men have duped Benedick in a similar way.
When Beatrice tells Benedick to come to dinner right...

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The Diary Letter to Beatrice


(A lone voice whispers, as the right hand, takes careful notes)

In the deepest of silence 
I always walk 

Deep in thoughts, into my own created Maelstrom of Defiance

As memories of you appear slowly, like a wild moorland winter fog

Which slithers, rolls...

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