may a certain beauty bear--
as a sorceress in stocks, under questioning and locks,
shorn of her hair,
fed on flung incivilities, poxy blackbirds in the air--
Tell us.
Do not reject the embrace of mercy.
Confess to us
what you are capable of; healing, harlotry and heresy...
The choreography of the somber
may dark comedy conceal--
as a seductress sent to ash, under pretense, purpose and mask,
purified by flame,
removed from those grinning cretins who call hypocrisy by name.
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photograph: Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil
tongue-in-cheek musical accompaniment
Creepy photo! Seems like the perspectives of idiots run rampant these days! Women who can't be tamed have always been feared.
ReplyDelete'Talk to me,' baby. Not that anyone ever said you were the kind to bite her tongue. I love the whole thing, of course, but the first stanza is the most bald-making (in keeping with the play on locks and shorn hair)while the choreography lines are measured and scathing. The rhyme here is the chocolate coating over the poison pill--my favorite is ash/mask. in fact that whole phrase--'under pretense,purpose and mask, purified by flame...' is pretty flooring.
ReplyDeleteIt's chilling!
ReplyDeleteGREAT song choice, SP!
ReplyDeletethis poem is bewitchingly brilliant!
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This does everything but growl!
ReplyDeleteYOU do tongue and cheek? What a surprise. ;) The music is a perfect musical choice.
ReplyDeleteI loved the "stocks and locks" pair.
Ha! That is awesome. Love these lines:
ReplyDelete"fed on flung incivilities, poxy blackbirds in the air"
"Confess to us
what you are capable of; healing, harlotry and heresy"
"The choreography of the somber
may dark comedy conceal"
Did you see I made another list?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! My mind was reading this like a Shakespeare play :-)
ReplyDeletegood one
ReplyDeletegotta stay out of their clutches, always known that....
ReplyDeleteHappy Aloha to YOU
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a certain beauty sure, but rather than locks, i'd rather keep them under lock and key, hee hee hee
ReplyDeleteGreat one!It's now one of my favorites...:)
ReplyDeleteOh this is fantastic! The form you have chosen really rocks, and I like how you switched it up in the middle stanza. You have the ability to take the preconceived and upturn it in our palms.
ReplyDeleteI was just fixing to write to one of Jasmine's lists and found you in my inbox with this one!! Wow. The tone in this is intimidating and the word usage throughout is rich...I don't even know what the words were but you've spun an amazing piece with them!! Funny, I just, literally just titled the piece I wrote for you, "Perspective."
ReplyDeleteExcellent poem, Shay!! xo