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SorrowsMystress Member
since 2000-04-01
Posts 178I'm a wanderer, a nomad...I don't live in one particular area, Just wherever I end up. 
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**This is one of my favorite poems from one of my favorite writers, I just wanted to post it so that others may enjoy it, and hope to show those who have never read Plaths work the intensity and talent in which she writes with. She has been a great inspiration to me, and I hope that she inspires others as much. The Rival by Sylvia Plath If the moon smiledd, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers. Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected, And your first gift is making stone out of everything. I wake to a mausoleum; you are here, Ticking your fingers on the marble table, looking for cigarettes, Spiteful as a woman, but not so nervous, And dying to say something unanswerable. The moon, too, abuses her subjects, But in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, Arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, White and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, Walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me. "It was my love that did us both to death. " -Sylvia Plath |
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Jon Mewett Senior Member
since 2000-03-04
Posts 1304 |
Thanx I must read some more of her work. Any other delights. Jon |
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SorrowsMystress Member
since 2000-04-01
Posts 178I'm a wanderer, a nomad...I don't live in one particular area, Just wherever I end up. |
Well, I highly recomend all of her works, but a few of my favorites are Mad Girls Love Song, Lady Lazarus, Daddy, Medusa....well, all of them...hehehe. She was a very good poet, and she wrote from the heart. Even though her heart was in dispair, she expressed it well. Go check it out! You won't be sorry!!!! "It was my love that did us both to death. " -Sylvia Plath |
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Sasikat Member
since 2000-02-02
Posts 290St. Petersburg, FL |
Sorrows, Have never read any of her work before, but did enjoy this. Thanks for sharing. Sheila ...the earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the measure of our bodies are the same........... Joseph, Nez Perce Chief |
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