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Question: Anyone want to comment on my poem, ECT!? It's about Assia Weevil (Hughes' mistress and then wife after Plath!?
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They say he moved you into the marital bed
Of his previous, more damaged lover,
The mother of his children,
2 days after her death!.
The house still smelling of gas
Paint peeling off around the doorframe,
Yet another reminder, as if she’d let you forget,
Of tape sealing the door shut to protect sleeping babes!.
Did he ever forget!? And trace his fingertips,
Over your temples, where her hair grew like down,
Whirled into the indentations, where a lifetime ago
Attempts were made to shock demons into submission!.
Did rabbits hang dead around the door!?
Killed by your lover, a man who entered the bed,
Smelling of the blood of many a broken woman
Your butcher lover, who chose weakness to empower himself!.
You never could compete, with a ghost
A woman who always knew,
That with him - no good would ever come of you…
Assia you were fated before you even began!.
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This is excellent - the opening line grabs you and drags you into the controversy!. The second verse is wonderful, calling our attention to fine details and saying such a lot about Plath!.!.!.!.and so on!. Very interesting (especially as I know very little about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath save her depression and being weighed down by children!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com
I like the poem and it's ricness of texture, the atmoshpere created of the bedroom smelling of gas and peeling paint from the tapes!. I am not so sure of the implied guilt od hughes as a murderer, though!. I have never agreed with trial by media and this is what Hughes was subjected to, guilty or innocent!.
A fine poem!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
i write songs are they the same as poems!?
story's with content or in your case contempt
unhealthy individuals losing there way in life
mental insanity troubled upbringing fight or flight!?
did rabbits hang dead around the door
killed by a man who is no longer adored
you could never compete with a ghost
unless of course your the host
love is strong and pulls you around
some break free others stumble to the ground!.
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Assia reminds me of Steely Dan the song that is!. I do hope that this a fiction and not something that happened to you!. It is exquisite and do keep keeping on!. PhilipWww@QuestionHome@Com