Pale Sister

Pale Sister

A Poem by David Plantinga

The moon is grim and sly, and keeps

Pale secrets from her twin.

She hides the darkest of her blushes

Behind a slivered grin.


Her greater, fertile, sister earth,

Greater in girth, not age,

Knows a pallid, pock-marked cheek

But not a shaded rage.


A barren spinster, gray from birth,

Can scarcely bear to see

From callous sister such a show

Of broad fecundity.

© 2021 David Plantinga


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Added on May 2, 2021
Last Updated on November 29, 2021
Tags: siblings, envy, earth, moon, sun, quatrain, ballad stanza, rhymed verse

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David Plantinga
David Plantinga

Pittsburgh, PA



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For shorter poems I'm experimenting with ballad and In Memoriam stanzas. more..

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