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SYLVIA PLATH: AN HOMAGE TO Everything in life is writable about If you have the outgoing guts to do it And the imagination to improvise. Quote by Sylvia Plath ~~~~~~~ PRESS THE DRESS Dedication: Sylvia Plath Press the dress And praise the days – All corpses decay, Peer into her ways. *Two little trees In a grove by the sea: Pleasant in the breeze – Earthly memories; A blood-letting soul – Encrypted-disease; A silence echoes Screams in the breeze. Wax the fitting words, Dust the silken parts, Let homage be heard – Praise a good heart; Dreams scream – As nights pass by – For a lovers desire; Light the candle and sigh. *Freida and Nicholas ~~~~~~~ DID THE ENGLISH CROW KNOW? Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Assia Wevill An American Cow stands In the cold, English rain. The English Crow flies in, Tired and a bit lame; He thinks the Cow is insane To play an every ten year game; Carbon Monoxide; a no win game. Insane! She lost! Shame! Shame! Why did Assia play the same game? Did the Crow know she was insane -- Before she lost at the same game? Carbon Monoxide, Shame! Shame! Their heads in the oven, insane. Both Cows died the same. Dead, and themselves to blame? The Crow was left behind to rearrange, Edit, and make the insane look sane For the little ones that remain; The children, the children. Shame . . . Shame. . . ~~~~~~~ I’M NOT AN ENGLISH ROSE I AM ME Dedication: David I'm not an English Rose, I am me, I am American . . . remember me? I am the one who set you free; -- Another American -- And English love affair Going nowhere! Everything’s the same, Everything’s different; Love became difficult with The blows from your black eyes Lashing out and injuring me, Like an arrow in flight, And so I had to set you free; Your ambition was killing me, And your dreams of what will never be. I am American . . . remember me? I take the poker from the fireplace, And I push it deep into my chest; I have cauterized a festering wound. Unlike a Goat on the Rack, I scream, I scream, because I am an American, Not an English Rose! Oh, hell! Just forget me! ~~~~~~~ A SUICIDE SHOULD BE TIDY Dedication: Sylvia Plath Suicides aught to be tidy and neat; No loose ends to let thoughts creep Into the minds of the bereaved. They should be performed When a mind is sharp; at its best, So, that there will be naught left To make those left behind think You are less than. No infections to speak of; No sad bones to pine over. I’ve thought about it once or twice; I mean who hasn’t? However, It would take too long for me To prepare; I would have to unload; you see -- I hoard, and then I would have to be in control; Pay my bills; get rid of the old clothes, And then what would I do with my precious Doggie girl; she gets depressed too easily. Why I could never leave her, she would die. When I say that I think back to you Leaving your two little ones in a room -- With the window open, and in the cold- Winter and I could not do that to my dog. So self says to self; something is wrong With this scenario; perhaps you really Didn’t kill yourself? Perhaps you Really didn’t intend to? O but I don’t Suppose we will ever know, will we? I have known of people who have died From the hands of their beloved husband Or wife; no one did anything, after all They were ill, weren’t they? Have you Not yourself looked upon an old Widow woman or man, and wondered? ~~~~~~~ A BLINK, BLINK! Her hair has been meticulously arranged. Her make up is perfection personified. Her dress is starched and clean, And her fingers have been broken, So they will lean in a lovely array, With a rosary draped sweet. The casket is new, the best they make, In a lovely shade of grey; the pillow Is fluffed, and music plays sweet and low, As this dead doll is approached, touched, And discussed so very much. Ah, we See before us an American Funeral, And all is well; she is worth the cost. I say, O God, don’t let me loose control, For I laugh when I do! I cry when I’m happy, And I laugh when I’m sad, and that’s too bad, And inappropriate at a funeral. Then I think To what will happen when I die and I sigh; Why give me roses when I won’t know? You never sent them when I knew. Why put perfection around me when I’m sloven and a sloth, or is that slouth? Why be over-wroth, when I’ve not seen you In ten years; you sent no Christmas cards! Just discard me up on that hill. Don’t worry over the bill; I’ve enough, More than enough; have a party, Eat and drink hardily. Hell, Sell my house, go on a cruise, That’s what I’d like you to do, With a conscious that’s clean, And please – don’t remember me as sweet; Say what you think – blink, blink, You’ll soon be down here with me! (Hee -- Hee) ~~~~~~~ All contents copyrighted by Jean Elizabeth Ward 2006 Published with iUniverse.com -- Barnes & Nobles 2007 |
| SYLVIA PLATH: AN HOMAGE TO BY JEAN ELIZABETH WARD Poet Laureate Multimedia Artist Mandala Maker Published Author |
| EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOK HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME 1998 I awaited my birthday, So pleased to reach fifty-five, And still be alive. My present? You will never guess! A divorce -- was his request! And now I'm busy As you might see, Dividing up a lifetime Of memories, so he can be Happy and free of me! Oh, today I think -- That was just one more step For Superwoman -- One more moment in time; Not too much for me to do; In my veins there runs juice Of the lemon and the lime, And now-a-days I walk upright too, Don't all fools? ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ETERNITY DOESN’T BORE ME Eternity doesn’t bore me as it does you, Nor do I find confusion over it as you do; I believe, I like to think I believe, I have to Believe, and yet I see the animals die -- And I hear you say, “There is no heaven for the animals!” And I question this, As the snake hisses -- Out in the ivy by the creek, And, yet I reek over the thought; Give me another thought Lighter than this for this day; Perhaps clay To which The pottery is made; Not the clay In which I’ll be laid, Or the clay In which My beloved lays, Just clay, Simple clay, In which I can mold a pot, -- Something I can forget And by it -- forgot, That is all, yes, that is all. ~~~~~~~ BOOKS PUBLISHED WITH iUniverse/Barnes & Nobles ELVIS: THE FAIRY TALE JOHN DONNE: AN HOMAGE TO MY SPECIAL BOOK (Basic Poetry with Instructions) A BARBARA ANNE BUSHY TALE (Children’s Collection in Rhyme) EARTH SPIRIT (Native American Indian Poems and Quotes) SEABROOK WITHIN A GARDEN (Poems about Seabrook, Texas and Garden Poetry) SERENE SPECULATIONS (Thought Provoking and Inspirational) LOVE AND LOSS: DIVORCE POETRY (The good, bad, ugly, they are all here) POETRY A’ LA’ SHAPE (Poetry in shapes and forms) BROTHERS and SISTERS OF THE SOIL (A Child Abuse Awareness Book) SYLVIA PLATH: AN HOMAGE TO MY JAPANESE POETRY OTHER COLLECTIONS INCLUDE Mary Todd Lincoln’s life in rhyme Abraham Lincoln in rhyme The Civil war in rhyme Life before the Galveston 1900 hurricane The failure of an American Woman The old man who loved the sea Folklore and Fables Several Children’s series Series: And the Old Woman Said Homage to Many Other Poets A book featuring my Mandalas Designs With Poetry written for each A Series in Alphabetical Order And a Picture book with 25 illustrations Of Elvis Presley and his family There are many more waiting To be complied together and edited Jean Elizabeth Ward Poet Laureate Multimedia Artist Mandala Maker Published Author All contents copyrighted by Jean Elizabeth Ward 2006 Published with iUniverse.com -- Barnes & Nobles 2007 I AM A MANDALA MAKER Copyrighted by Jean Elizabeth Ward The Mandala Maker, Precise and proud, Draws her line And thinks out loud. What will it be That I will see tonight? I must not think, Yet think . . . right, She closes her eyes, Thank you for this moment; ... She writes ... To the left and to the right, Around and around she goes, One side and then the other As she dwells not -- On the future, the past, Her family, or her lover. Alas, alas she Has completed this one, And to The Mandala Maker It was creative fun. ~~~~~~~ |
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Jean Elizabeth Ward
SYLVIA PLATH: AN HOMAGE TO By Jean Elizabeth Ward Poet Laureate iUniverse |
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