Unbetrothed

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  L. B. Mek May 10th, 2022 04:34

  (Brilliant!
  just jumped in-to my feeble
  poetic reply, forgive me
  it's so rare for me to read your poetry
  this days, I get a little - too
  excited
  whenever you afford me the opportunity..
  thank you, dear Poet!)
  Is it by jewellery or vows
  we wed?
  Or were we wed, when mind
  relented and heart
  was empowered to cement
  via eyesight's
  soul engraved, contracts..
  and
  When, does our wedded status
  get expunged from our veins;
  at divorce courts
  at child visitation, days
  or
  at that moment, when
  the world itself, hears
  our very heart's, thunder and crack
  like an earthquake
  stemming from the very core of earth
  because that's where we keep
  the second copy of our soul
  contracts...
  'When and Where?'
  (' Roses bleed
  their fragrance spoiled
  Lovers search
  as stems recoil
  
  Cold breaths gather
  northern winds
  Seeds of hope
  —to plant again')
  this, those soul seeds of hope
  drenched in our crimson, defiance
  this, humanity's
  strength, of willingness to survive
  defined!
  this, be life
  at its nuclease of beauty and truth:
  'O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
  Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
  With forest branches and the trodden weed;
  Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
  As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
  When old age shall this generation waste,
  Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
  Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
  (from Keats' Ode on A Grecian urn:
  https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-14542
  )

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  Kurt Philip Behm May 10th, 2022 09:15

  Wonderful commenting again, LB.
  
  Honored
  
  Kurt