Best Concubine Poems

I've asked this of many women,
And get strange looks towards my way,
And in all honesty,
I think I ought to say,
What the hell is a concubine??
Is it an imprisoned porcupine?
I just don't really know,
But, ask it I do, often,
With results too easy to show,
That's not a...

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Only she knows the weight of this veneer
that emanates from her aloof demeanor. 
An ebony goddess, she waits in obscurity 
ever ready to do the king's bidding. 

Trapped in this masquerade that is her life
her heart bleeds with heavy, crimson tears. 
Yet she allows her...

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Limerick: Once the Middle Kingdom’s top Concubine

Once the Middle Kingdom’s top Concubine*
Said to rule China through love combine
Dallying generals: O! Dear!
Forced Emperor to fear:
Eunuch strangled her at Buddhist shrine.

*Emperor Xuanzong’s Consort and his daughter-in-law,
Yang Guifei, 719-756 C.E.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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I love my cigarettes
The pleasure, sticks
I’m tellin’ you

Coffin nails
You’re calling them
It simply isn’t true

They increase my confidence
It’s the nicotine
You see

A happy drug you understand
My doctors
Said to me

So I keep, smoking 
I don’t care
They are helpin’ with my flair

Love lookn’ at 
My King Size pack
While reclinin’...

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Last night 
The heavens caught fire.
Each planet and star
Was seduced by the treacherous Earth
And each in turn died in flame 
Attempting to possess her. 

From this destruction
Neptune alone was spared.
And he smothered us all
With an oblivion cape
All tied up in tide
And hung with mermaids.

Last night
I...

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To blame it on me
I sure think you have
My thought was wrong 
Until I listened to you song
I have grieved you for long
That such passion you crave
How I wished I knew
My life would have been true
I have really my life a mess
And myself deprived so...

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Stimulating her Emperor's savage
Aquisece defers demand of regal constraint
Furtive festivities provide passage
Into fecund gracing gait Autocracy ordained 

Retreat from mastering insatiable masses 
His thought voiding thaumaturge 
Covers strident intellectual with molasses 
Cater of paramour calms nerves 

Unwound by compassionate exorbitance
Momentarily vulnerable assailant 
Commits their heirs...

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Sorry, Fred, no, you can't be my concubine.  But maybe I know of someone...........

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Concubine
are extra
food for consumption.
Why make yourself food?
To a man that's filled?...

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She is mines for just an hour 
But she makes it seem like more,
She implies what time is ours 
Stays behind the bamboo doors.... 
While undressing me to shower,
Tending to my every need,
From the bed of Asian flowers, 
To the towels at my feet...
Then massaging...

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Title:

The Concubine 

(A lone voice whispers)

Sometimes 
I stand silent and still 

Just
Staring up at the blazing hot sun

Is there nowhere left
For me 
To now quickly run

No retreat or temple of 
Salvation

After all is 
Said and done 

No matter how you preach
Or shout

For I've done all...

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I am a side chick 
I have existed from time immemorial 

In ancient times I was  a prostitute
In biblical times a concubine
 
Otherwise known as a mistress 
The other woman 

She that never came home 
A woman tucked away somewhere 

In all centuries 
I...

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Dark shadows in the Gothic hall

The Gothic Queen has us in her thrall

I somehow am not fearful at all

But dank wet atmosphere makes everything unclear.

Humid as it is the water runs down the walls

Like tiny rivulet waterfalls

Sparking in the candle lights that surround

I can hear...

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