SICK WOMAN/ Jan Steen/ 1665
THANKS TO Tess at Magpie Tales...
A HUMOUR
What's turned her humour
to black bile?
Warped her cold and dry,
bound to earth,
forever in melancholy?
Tulips at the door
from the shy one
with the downward glance.
The wind sighs with her voice.
He begs for courage
to fetch some magic.
Perhaps a unicorn's horn
filled with tears of the stag
who trampled her ardor.
He longs to spill
the Satyr's blood
and wash away the tether.
The bonesetter
who heals fractured maidens
arrives, fills the kettle,
pours a flow into a lucent cup.
Melancholy sits,
she sips white tea,
stirring cinnamon, lemongrass,
a sliver of cardamom from India,
knobby ginger,
and a stain of beetroot
to brush her lips with sunrise.
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The trip was worth it, for the pleasure of seeing your words "brush her lips with sunrise."
ReplyDeleteAh! I like this very much. That last stanza in particular shook me.
ReplyDeleteBravo!
love that last verse! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteto brush her lips with sunrise...smiles...cool turn of phrase and i hope he finds what it is that will bring her back to life...
ReplyDeleteThis is a veritable Pandoras box of impressions here , Lyn, bravo
ReplyDeleteHi Magaly-
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear from you...thanks!
Hi Irish-
ReplyDeleteThank you...I so appreciate your comment...
Hi izzy-
ReplyDeleteFunny thing about that last line...hmmm..thank you!
Hi Brian-
ReplyDeleteMaybe brushing her lips will do it! Thanks...
Hi Kutamun-
ReplyDeletePandora's box...very interesting..thank you!
This is good.
ReplyDeleteFull of wonderful nuggets of intellect and capability. A real poem.
You captured the era well ...
ReplyDeleteHi Helen-
ReplyDeleteAlways appreciate your comments. Very frustrated, since last week I'm unable to enter your site..get as far as "Poetry Matters", and that's it. Have tried many times, so???Don't know how to solve this.
Love your poetry!!
Hi aprille-
ReplyDeleteI like that..."a real poem"..we can only try! Thanks...
This is lovely and very smart. I especially like the first two stanzas and the closing line.
ReplyDeleteLyn this is a beautiful piece of poetry prose....a new favorite for me! :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely write Lynn, full of richly poetic phrases. I've read it several times and enjoyed it more each time.
ReplyDeleteLovely clever stuff Lyn - very enjoyable read.
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Hi Other Mary-
ReplyDeleteLovely comment..thanks so much!
Hi Carrie-
ReplyDeleteA new fav, wow, that's really something! Thanks.
Hi Little Nell-
ReplyDeleteThis was interesting to write, and a challenge! Thank you...
Hi hyperCRYPTICal-
ReplyDeleteSo glad you enjoyed it...thanks so much!
I hope tulips, cinnamon, and unicorn horn will pull her out of it! Lovely.
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