Look but don't touch
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Dante Gabriel Rosetti immortalized his lovers:
the strong, graceful and voluptuous gentlewomen
who could have been countesses and baronesses.
Indeed, their beauty would stand the test of time.
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Categories:
countesses, art, beauty, muse, smile,
Form: Free verse
The Kings Of Backgammon
...The kings of backgammon, descendants of
Bulgarian kings and Austro-Hungarian princes
Russian counts and countesses, Czech barons
Your ancestors have seen better days.
They accepted their fate as ...
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Categories:
countesses, blessing, lonely, sad,
Form: Free verse
Rough Roads To Roam
...The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves th...
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Categories:
countesses, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Lavender and White Lace
...The grand madam wore double strains of opal perils,
Around her collar of white lace, in eloquence personified,
She’s cultures Lady of utter refinement, curtsying to noble
And high brad’s aristocra...
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Categories:
countesses, art, beauty, class, devotion,
Form: Free verse
From the Pulpit, Any Last Words For the Public
...Upon my lastly leave:
I beg of you,
As I stand before the gallows
And these promises of end,
Do not take to heart
The darkness of doubt
That these shadows do cast.
It is a pious act,
Greet...
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Categories:
countesses, allegory, angst, death,
Form: Free verse