To She

Just like the curses

That have drained the pallor of these verses;

Just like the songs heard

When stones are cast by 

The Colossus of fate's spiteful urges;

Felt in the caverns and hollow places, 

In the beggar's limp and the angel's brooding faces. 

Look to the great churches that

Lord over skies with ominous glances,

Seen through the disheveled locks of 

Martyr's hair that he clutches as he winces;

Just as the pyre is heaped 

With fresh virgins to stay

The god's mad vanity, 

Hope is fretted with beating breasts and shrill cries, 

As fresh disaster threatens our anemic morality. 

Savage indifference and shrewd glances

Betray the beauty of she

Where there is none fairer, 

Fairer even than mother Earth

That smiles always 

In beauty or in terror, 

A kind of shameless enlightenment

That laughs even with vampires 

In their coarsest resurrections. 

Reviews

[Alexa Apothic Red]

This is a stunning visual display in your grandiose imagery.. such vivid and classical vocabulary, of which I’m so fond! It’s a tad long (but aren’t all the classics?).. You’d fit in nicely among them. This is beautifully romantic and sweeping.. definitely epic, and you do so superb a job at painting the scenes with your word choices.

[Zorrin86]

Thanks a lot for the review. It seems that few people still appreciate the classics or classical style. I've read so much of that stuff that I'm sure it has influenced my work. Yeah I'm sure it might be a bit long in some places. Good eye on that.

[Alexa Apothic Red]

You're most welcome! I love the classics.. much of them influence me as well, as they should. Plus binge-watching period dramas on Netflix and the like do no good to steer me in the opposite direction... I do so hope you continue to write classically.. it's a lost art, and the truly brilliant WILL appreciate it! ;)

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This poem made my evening!!
I'm so glad to have this nice read😊
Thanks for sharing!!

[Zorrin86]

Thanks! I'm glad that you got something out of it.

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Indeed!! WC😊