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Harshest Critic Unfortunate, isn’t it, to say the least, that so much of our self-worth is merely from reflected perception? Our ego-beast, clearly orphaned at birth either whimpers or roars in reflexive response to the touch it craves. ~~~~~~~~~~ The poet raves glory-green sings the sun and bleeds blue, he knows, he sees, he reads the world and writes the soul. Addict! He needs to scribble verse, to grasp and hurl right words from out of darkness, seeking light, to wrestle truth, to purse li...

"All rework and no ploy makes Hamlet a dull play"

wind-berated trees stand in rumpled compliance like chastised children

Cleopatra’s Mirror I must be more than this image of kohl-eyed copper allows. This face is too plain this head too Greek this neck too slender too weak to bear a crown heavy with the weight of two lands. I must be more than I can glean from polished metal. What hands as fine as these could build a throne upon the brother-husband’s blood and bone? Or breasts so common suckle a nation?

I Am Autumn Please understand that you will not find in me- more than a misty moment of spring. that promise gone, as it must be- it’s honeyed taste, still a sweet remembered thing. Likewise, the summer of my life has come and gone- the days of budding fruit and learning lips- when flowers knew their glory and my body danced along- to shared music with easy-rolling hips. You have come to me in Autumn-time. My form is round and unashamed, a woman grown. I offer you the flame-leafed fullness of...