Purgatory
by Maxine Kumin
And suppose the darlings get to Mantua,
suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin
with him, unshaven. Though not, I grant you, a
displeasing cockerel, there’s egg yolk on his chin.
His seedy robe’s aflap, he’s got the rheum.
Poor dear, the cooking lard has smoked her eye.
Another Montague is in the womb
although the first babe’s bottom’s not yet dry.
She scrolls a weekly letter to her Nurse
who dares to send a smock through Balthasar,
and once a month, his father posts a purse.
News from Verona? Always news of war.
Such sour years it takes to right this wrong!
The fifth act runs unconscionably long.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Чудеса
- Astrophel and Stella: LXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- Жан де Лафонтен – Третейский Судья, Брат милосердия и Пустынник
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love:
- Remember the Tick by RD McManes
- Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
- Sonnet. Written On A Blank Page In Shakespeare’s Poems, Facing ‘A Lover’s Complaint’ poem – John Keats poems
- Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind by Stephen Crane
- I Wish This Lovely Time Never Ends by Miraj Patel
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- Address to the Unco Guid by Robert Burns
- Юлия Жадовская – Да, я вижу
- Федор Сологуб – В лес пришла пастушка
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