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Isveig Schmidt Poem
Edgar was the middle son
and he was a bull.
In youth he swerved very early
and took up the father's likeness,
and learned to drink and love women
And learned the street and how
to make money.
He was young and fierce,
and feared none in the fray
for he was fast to win
over beast or man.
A friend with a good laugh,
an enemy with heavy hand
yet in his vices was his
life lost,
and his doom with his
hands wrought.
How Marie his old good mother
used to wait for him night after night
as he was out,
and how late was his sorrow and love
when she finally came to die.
He married a young sweetheart
of town beauty. and they fell in love.
She was named Helena, and had white arms
and lovely curls.
He was too brath a lover
for her tenderness
for so often did he hurt
her heart
and nested in other arms.
But Helena bore him two sons.
and he was but loving at whiles,
yet what his heart longed for
was something else.
In three years Ariel, come of age,
chanced to leave father and go with mother,
but Jesus had married young and now had a family,
and Edgar was left alone in that house, with years to pass
he remembered the joys where he was now bitter and weary
and struck the walls and cursed the day, and drank himself numb
and cried, for what he had lost,
and what he had become.
Copyright © Isveig Schmidt | Year Posted 2017
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Isveig Schmidt Poem
Love reigns in the feeling-house
Warmth in the hearth,
Wooing weaves you a blanket
With which to warm you in lonely nights .
Loves has smithed us a ring each
to Troth, and bind us
Though smitten by the powerful weapon
of love
The dead envy, and the living too,
For the life-yearning bees
Which seek their sweetness
In flowers,
Have reserved for us their honey.
And thus my love burns
as daily as the sun
For you, my only, truly
Loved girl.
Copyright © Isveig Schmidt | Year Posted 2017
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Isveig Schmidt Poem
Half of mine,
My other self
Wind of my loneliness,
Ghost of my heart,
Unknown one
Haven from sorrows
Afterlife of dreams
My tethered one,
One and only,
Earthly companion.
Copyright © Isveig Schmidt | Year Posted 2017
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