Unbetrothed
...Vows are binding promises each partner makes to God.
Til post-traumatic stress disorder shows its ugly head ~Quote by poet
No longer they were joined as one
The swell of her shackled an...
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Categories:
unbetrothed, angst, celebration, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Within the Cosmos
...Treated with respect and shared the light.
That I needed for enlightenment and insight.
To engage in this special scheme for shift forever.
From death to life, I grew most joyful and c...
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Categories:
unbetrothed, analogy, appreciation, beauty, character,
Form: Rhyme
Unbetrothed
...Seduced
by what I hadn’t done
Engaged
to what I’d never wed
Married
with vows I wouldn’t take
Divorced
from what I couldn’t leave
(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)...
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Categories:
unbetrothed, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Unbetrothed
...Religion and science…
never to wed
Like oil and water,
alone in their beds
While science defends,
ancient dogma portends
Two voices discordant,
to break if they bend
For centuries lon...
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Categories:
unbetrothed, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Soviet Story
...Hungary 1956
The innocent flowers peered gingerly
Through the stench in the iron pavement
Hesitating, then stretching the petals greedily
To drink of the sunlight of Possibility...
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Categories:
unbetrothed, freedom, happiness, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Widow Among Roses
...The widow among roses,
though a scent so sweet
she smells to near smile,
how red the vibrance of life
and soft the petals caress
her lonely cheek,
she remembers her love lost
(her left eye a ...
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Categories:
unbetrothed, death, depression, lost love,
Form: Classicism