May 2009
In a piece of paper
A litany of sentimental vows and attachments
Was perfectly scribbled long before Pilatus' time
Such follows a festive celebration of bouquets
A prevalent get-together of the Romans
The beginning of a life anew.
It used to be an assurance
A pledge upon a woman's encumbered honor
For the gods shall curse those who defy
And shall condemn her kind who gambled with fiend
Once she messed up with a gladiator's heel
Redemption shall precede thy unscrupulous pride
And bleed in an eternal pact.
If the poet will be riding the same black horse
Perhaps her horse will be grazing the meadow
For many has already been lost by thy cozy route
A poet would rather hang-on on her own for a while
Let her horse rest under a perennial tree
Than forever tied with a handsome vermin.
And so the poet has written an ode about her liberation.
ESTÁS LEYENDO
The Kept Poems
PoetryThis book is a collection of poems written by Helen Cheng in English for the past fifteen years about emotions, politics, passion, etcetera.