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She perches perpetually on a precipice

too high up for any man’s reach

A lonely perfection- flawless solitude

Trapped within her looks- she pounds on the walls

Silently screaming to be released from the single feature people notice-

A face doomed to suffer and to cause suffering

Her silky hair tumbles down her back-

As her sisters tumble to their fate

Endless eyes and endless despair

Her home- stolen

Her family- dissolved

And her love- Gone to ride the winds forever

As she is left to wander aimlessly

Longing to leap

off the pedestal she is nailed to

2/4/2011 01:22:37 am

This poem was one of the allusion poems that I saw while we where presenting. You used your anaphoras flawlessly in describing Psyche's emotions. Keep up the good work on your poetry!

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Ms. Miller
3/6/2011 11:09:49 pm

This is gorgeous! The imagery and figurative language are on a professional poet's level. I like the antithesis "Her silky hair tumbles down her back/As her sisters tumble to their fate." The Christian imagery in the last line may be a bit melodramatic, but still a clever idea. 100%

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