Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
13th Jan 2025 3:15pm
13th Jan 2025 3:15pm
Like an Echo
"She should be like a town clock — keep time and observe regularity. She should not, however, like a town clock, speak so loudly that all the town may hear her.
She should be like a snail — prudent, and keep within her own house.
She should not be like a snail — carry all she has upon her back.
She should be like an echo — speak when spoken to.
But she should not be like an echo — determined always to have the last word." - "Three Wifely Virtues", The Australian Woman's Mirror, 24/02/1925
A snail slimes across a leaf,
Its hearth and...
She should be like a snail — prudent, and keep within her own house.
She should not be like a snail — carry all she has upon her back.
She should be like an echo — speak when spoken to.
But she should not be like an echo — determined always to have the last word." - "Three Wifely Virtues", The Australian Woman's Mirror, 24/02/1925
A snail slimes across a leaf,
Its hearth and...
#abuse
#feminism
#historical #marriage
#historical #marriage
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Connotation
Poem Published
29th Dec 2024 4:35am
29th Dec 2024 4:35am
Cavernous Echoes
Cavernous echoes
Inside the chamber
Where dust gathers
Course infinity
Ethereal breath amaze
Comfort succumbs
Filthy hands
Dare to handle
Touch a soul
Death inside
Suffocated prison
Paranoia hinted walls
At the prospect
Closing in
An escape alone
Devoid of purpose
Hidden in truth
Moments recall
Universal secrets
Into the abyss
Graven gaze
Eyes deeply
Fixated hypnosis
Mood transforms
Lust tempts
Deity life transpose
Nothing...
Inside the chamber
Where dust gathers
Course infinity
Ethereal breath amaze
Comfort succumbs
Filthy hands
Dare to handle
Touch a soul
Death inside
Suffocated prison
Paranoia hinted walls
At the prospect
Closing in
An escape alone
Devoid of purpose
Hidden in truth
Moments recall
Universal secrets
Into the abyss
Graven gaze
Eyes deeply
Fixated hypnosis
Mood transforms
Lust tempts
Deity life transpose
Nothing...
#girlfriend
#love
#marriage
#metaphor
#prose
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Strangeways_Rob
Poem Published
18th Jun 2022 1:25pm
18th Jun 2022 1:25pm
Shake the Vows
A needle pricked seamstress, bored
Stitching buttons on ventriloquist dolls,
Sewed wedding rings to tambourines.
And played a song of freedom
For oppressed housewives, and
Children of the walking dead.
Stitching buttons on ventriloquist dolls,
Sewed wedding rings to tambourines.
And played a song of freedom
For oppressed housewives, and
Children of the walking dead.
#children
#marriage
#oppression #freedom
#oppression #freedom
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Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
6th Jul 2024 00:44am
6th Jul 2024 00:44am
The Vow
love shown in caresses of gnarled hands
dried out from the spring of youth
skins worn like old Cashmere
that once as in love draped around
shoulders and ample bosom
hair grey highlighted with white
framed her sweet face once so pretty
love in honesty shone through his eyes
as he touched her face vowing eternal
the love of them together in a golden circle
dried out from the spring of youth
skins worn like old Cashmere
that once as in love draped around
shoulders and ample bosom
hair grey highlighted with white
framed her sweet face once so pretty
love in honesty shone through his eyes
as he touched her face vowing eternal
the love of them together in a golden circle
#love
#marriage
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3rdEYErising
Poem Published
16th Nov 2023 8:09pm
16th Nov 2023 8:09pm
Ashley Darque
I was respectful
Or at least so I thought
Maybe I caught him in a midlife crisis
Maybe he should not have
Referred to me as Isis
In his dreams
Silly him
Is it my fault that his wife
Was ear hustling while he slept?
Listened closely as he snitched on himself
While he crept along my back alley
Sighhhh..
I'm not much into victimhood politics
People make choices
Choices have consequences
He just needed put an 'H' on his back
And...
Or at least so I thought
Maybe I caught him in a midlife crisis
Maybe he should not have
Referred to me as Isis
In his dreams
Silly him
Is it my fault that his wife
Was ear hustling while he slept?
Listened closely as he snitched on himself
While he crept along my back alley
Sighhhh..
I'm not much into victimhood politics
People make choices
Choices have consequences
He just needed put an 'H' on his back
And...
#marriage
#sex
#betrayal
#dreams
#night
490 reads
10 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
10th Jan 2025 11:40am
10th Jan 2025 11:40am
Don't Worry. We Really Do Have An Open Marriage.
Kendra woke up at
Two AM with a pain
in her head and found
herself to be naked
before some chick
said "You must be
my husband's date."
Two AM with a pain
in her head and found
herself to be naked
before some chick
said "You must be
my husband's date."
#fiction
#FreeVerse
#lover
#marriage
#sex
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