The Tenth Muse

Inspired by a hapless female poet - chin up, darlin'.

Woe to the woman poet who
sees verse in every page of life
and captures those lines in fits of
galvanized, starry-eyed rapture!
She births an Eden but can find
no Adam to match her vision.
There is wisdom enough in her
wit to know that a soul-mate is
no guarantee of paradise,
but she also feels in her bones
that creation is bleak without
a heart and mind to witness it,
much less a lover to love it
for the fingerprints in the ink.

Reviews

[michaela]

Simply incredible!

[Larry Dyson]

yes...captured in a mind over matter memory..but no-one to populate the Garden...