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MUSINGS on Sylvia Plath
- a 20th Century Poetic Comet
Why couldn’t you wait, Sylvia?
Day dreaming, hoping to meet you,
we were just young mothers
struggling to find words
for the poems raging inside
of us - summer of 1963 -
household dust, toddlers attached to knees,
hungry husbands, demanding
our creative energy
as our mouths opened
too often soundless,
just small O’s gaping
dry tongued
white teeth rimmed
our stilled caves of
craving.
Bernice Lever of Bowen Island, BC enjoys reading and reciting poetry. Her 8th book of poems, was Never
a Straight Line, Black Moss, 2007. She is active in many writing associations, publishes internationally and does freelance editing.
Colour of Words
Email: Bernice Lever
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