Red Rose
...What a splendid scarlet rose!
Smiling petals surrounded pretty heart
What a charming blood flower!
Move closer,
The fragrance fulfills my chest.
Unlikely this blood scented!
Beloved form and ...
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Categories:
blood flower, flower, love, rose,
Form: Free verse
Revenge of a Nation
...Revenge of a nation
Sweet revenge for Orestes
For the slaying of his father
Pitied his sullen face
Cold and no longer with us
Killed with vigour
His betraying sword
Sacrifice to Neptune sayi...
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Categories:
blood flower, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Opera Stepmother
...She was there for me when I came of age,
but when, for a girl of unlocked doors and
a missing father. in flight down the stairs,
an intruder pursuing, no dagger in the chamber
of non-connubial righ...
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Categories:
blood flower, childhoodchild,
Form: Free verse