Consultation
...I have asked before, though you may not know,
About how to deal with the difficulties you strain me with.
My own adventure for my true soul has begun,
And so I must make all a witness,
Or the p...
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Categories:
maidenhood, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Sea of Change
...I'd met you, like a lad meeting his neighbor little lass,
Charmed to you at very first sight, I stood like a dumb ass;
As tabooed lover admiring his darling, I stood far,
Thirst of bathing in you...
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Categories:
maidenhood, change, life, sea, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Valentine Has Come
...Valentine has come
in the smooth dispersal fragrance of the newest blooming flowers
in the thrilled embroidered wings of airborne butterflies
in the sweet songs of spring birds, in the voices of c...
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Categories:
maidenhood, valentines day,
Form: Free verse
Smoking Cigarettes and Sipping Coffee
...Many-colored and candle-lights; high beyond the soft trees a fresh country leans heavily toward the night, far beyond the sea’s shady shore.
Beams, o’er wide fields like a white star, \till from t...
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Categories:
maidenhood, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Mrs Pickel - Mrs Plum
...Mrs. Pickel – Mrs. Plum
Bright sunbeams remember puddles
On the path
Where bumblebees and ladybugs
Floated with lazy summer breezes,
In a cleft between steep hills of beacons
Looking west,
A...
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Categories:
maidenhood, marriage, memory, sister,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations
...Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
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Categories:
maidenhood, girl, girlfriend, love, lust,
Form: Epigram
Migdal Eder
...Muscles locked in agony
Every ligament burning
Pain flooding nerve endings
Labor
Heavy panting of breath
Heart pumping trying to keep up
Behind the canopy of human perception
Life and Deat...
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Categories:
maidenhood, blessing, child, dance, love,
Form: Free verse
The Seeker
...Act 2, Scene 4.
The Salisbury plain. Within a henge, a watchfire burns. The Seer approaches The Seeker.
Take heed, my friend, our part in cosmic cheat
Plays on; below the stage the truth lies qu...
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Categories:
maidenhood, humanity, life,
Form: Sonnet
Unwana
...Unwana, Unwana, I have chosen you amongst the daughters of men,
amongst the maidens of my felon tribe,
to bear the torch of our waning kindred…
Unwana, I have chosen you, favoured one, out of t...
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Categories:
maidenhood, eve, universe,
Form: Free verse
Dragon Hood
...Yes, I read my Dragon, the story of good old… ‘Robin Hood’.
You know, the first super hero, who was really… super good.
Now, with Dragon, things don’t always end up, exactly… as they should!
His e...
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Categories:
maidenhood, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Letter From a Classic Archetypal Dope, January 4, 1960 - Part One
...Part One
Now as I account for myself
I know the fight is over
You made me feel if I was worth saving
I was worth having
And I knew as the man flattered to grow
He also learned the crafts of
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Categories:
maidenhood, girlfriend-boyfriend, me,
Form: Free verse
Ever Wailing Child
...Who will cry for the little boy,
Whose wails are heard resounding inside the man.
The man whose ever unhealing wounds are clothed in pride,
These mortal scars he wears beneath his flesh
To him ar...
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Categories:
maidenhood, childhood, depression, day, day,
Form: Free verse
The Lassie Who Can Blush
..."The Lassie Who Can Blush"
By Rachel Heffington
I would give many a dollar,
I would give a golden thrush,
If you showed me really, truly,
A young lass who still can blush.
There are many "h...
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Categories:
maidenhood, philosophygirl,
Form: I do not know?
Still Life
...Slush of remaining snow
Mocks the glee of the day it fell
Like an old prostitute her first dream
Of maidenhood
The view doesn't move
Fixed with rusty nails
Of stars
And you say to yourself how nice...
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Categories:
maidenhood, life, universe,
Form: Free verse