Berenike’s Majesty

The loveliness that crowned her youth,
Swept the grounds with all its roots;
With gentle years and womanhood
With lazy-days and laughs of grace;
Now passes by her majesty.

Her breasts triumphant for a life of flesh
Defiant in her pose, Love was captured,
And love was lost, but proudly her child
Did grow—Her child’s her victory, Her
New tranquil majesty….

#1055 1/3/06 Chapter #15,
of: “The Sylphlike of Alexandra”

Sinful Games

Stubborn, are our sins
Faint, is our memory
Of them!...
Like a vapor, that
Surrounds our will;
Tears do not cleanse
Our sins,
Only covers them.

We sink through shadows
Nibbling, here and there;
Sly we think we are
With our hidden desires.
We squeeze the juices
Out of our brains
To play life’s sinful games.

#1056 1/3/06 Part of Chapter #16, of: “The Sylphlike of Alexandra” 278 BC

Coldhearted Swan

“I will not cry,” the child-bride scorned
Silent as stone, to marry a man
so very, very old….
“I’m so-beautiful,” she cried, eyes
Wide, her heart in protest:
“Father must I marry,” in a haunted
pose, she arouse.
“Life’s near fair in eternal splendor;
But not so, in the real world.”
And like a swan, she covered
Her wings, and become his trophy
his cold-hearted thing.

#0157 1/4/06: from the story “Kush, Land of he Bow,” Part Two to “The Sylphlike of Alexandra” 525 BC, Chapter #5

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