Goethe



Goethe

A portrait of Beauty:
The air around her is intoxicating.
She drowns your soul
in a green "veil of sweet darkness."

Her eyes are seductive
as she devours your flesh--
"A monster, forever devouring,
regurgitating, chewing and gorging."

Dragging you to her sacrificial altar,
she laughs with a witches' cackle
as pleasure becomes pain
and pain becomes pleasure.

Around her ankles--a snake,
glowing in the dark.
Hidden behind her back
a dagger for your heart.

She touches your lips--
entwined in "The Last Kiss of all,
                        cruelly sweet."
As monsters beget monsters...

                                     from "Whistling Past the Graveyard"

About this poem

The poem is a biographical fantasy.

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Written on March 09, 2015

Submitted by learnott1958 on December 31, 2022

Modified on March 09, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXX XXAA BXXB XXXX XXXX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 671
Words 117
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1

Linda Arnott

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