as you are (of english poetry) in this magnificiant forum, I'll share my favourites:
Her kind
I have gone out, aposessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dream,ing evil I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves.
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the supers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.
I have ridden in your cart driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.
~~Anne sexton
And the days are not long enough:
And the days are not long enough
And the nights are not long enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
NOt shaking the grass
~~Erza pound
Her kind
I have gone out, aposessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dream,ing evil I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves.
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the supers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.
I have ridden in your cart driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.
~~Anne sexton
And the days are not long enough:
And the days are not long enough
And the nights are not long enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
NOt shaking the grass
~~Erza pound
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