Hi Ryfkah,
A dramatic piece that plays in interesting ways with images.
I guess, particularly with biblical or classical myths in paintings it's the
subtleties of difference that cause most excitement. This is an exciting
poem.
I catch glimpses, here, of a primal biblical story: a tree, a snake, a fruit
(interestingly not an apple, as English translations have it, but a fig!)
and then there's the banishment image - where an angel weilded a fiery sword
- but I'm not sure how a scimitar can have four sides?
Bob
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>Subject: New: Sorrow
>Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:25:56 EDT
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>Sorrow
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>Her daughter reminds her
>You choose your attitude
>You choose your own happiness
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>A serpent sputters his promises
>The woman hypnotized
>desires the power the glory
>She mona-lisa-s her lips
>clutches the fresh fig like an infant
>Juice plunges down her breasts
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>The tree stands without temptation
>Life and death its fruit
>A four-sided scimitar of fire
>flickers among the branches
>She howls to the universe
>I choose life so that I might live
>
>The mother cuddles her child
>rubs blood-tears from cheeks
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>Ryfkah 10/1/06
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