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  • In a Miirror Darkly
    I see my love
    In a mirror darkly,
    by Rossetti 30 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 14 2:28 AM. In Love
  • I Still Moments of Time
    Should time cause one of us to forget our love,
    While one of us remembers still,
    by Rossetti 9 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 14 2:25 AM. In Love
  • Hope
    She came to me today.
    A friend?
    by Rossetti 32 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 14 2:20 AM. In Love
  • The Object of My Desire
    by Rossetti 34 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 14 2:17 AM. In Adult, Love
  • Dancers Delighting In the Night
    The rain of my late spring set eerily
    In on this warmly fecund afternoon,
    by Rossetti 21 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 2 11:01 PM. In Love
  • The Note
    The note came one day in the mail.
    It was addressed carefully, ink dark blue.
    by Rossetti 15 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 2 10:57 PM
  • Justice is Done.
    Winter weak sun struggles through my window.
    Dust mites dance in the single beam of warmth
    by Rossetti 52 lines, on Mar 2 10:55 PM
  • Diversions
    My words meander across the page.
    Diversions, revisions and reversions
    by Rossetti 9 lines, on Mar 2 10:37 PM
  • Perfidy
    This is an old poem; however, given the devastating bush fires that have gripped my state of Victoria this week, I thought it appropriate t
    by Rossetti 25 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 11 10:32 PM. In Life
  • The Wave
    She lies in her bed,
    Frail fingers ineffectually
    by Rossetti 58 lines, 1 comment, on Feb 11 10:25 PM. In Life
  • For Artemis
    by Rossetti 18 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 11 9:59 PM
  • Possession
    Still, early summer heat sat languidly
    Upon my slumbering garden of dreams.
    by Rossetti 18 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 3 10:45 PM 2007
  • Two Poems of Young Love
    The Last Shallows Of Summer I remember the day when we were lovers
    by Rossetti 73 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 28 11:22 PM 2007. In Love
  • The Ghost of My Past.
    The ghost of my ever present Past prances and dances unendingly
    by Rossetti 24 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 14 10:19 PM 2007. In Angst
  • He and She: A poem of Remembrance
    She remembers the first time she saw him, Sitting at a table in the library.
    by Rossetti 27 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 14 12:03 AM 2007
  • Shelter From The Storm.
    They sat apart on the salt peeling bench, Huddled tightly into their spray damp coats,
    by Rossetti 33 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 13 11:53 PM 2007. In Love
  • His Traitor's Heart
    The dark rose, thickening fear filled The tribes of Africa. Black, white,
    by Rossetti 57 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 7 11:18 PM 2007
  • Blood Brothers
    Isolated in a dreary adult Boarding house world, the child would sit watching
    by Rossetti 72 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 7 11:13 PM 2007
  • The Imperfect Spy.
    You see me here, always the perfect spy, Carefully playing the game. Moscow Rules.
    by Rossetti 14 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 7 10:36 PM 2007
  • A Despairing Cry to My Lost Muse
    Heavy air hangs limp against my window Of the night, a shroud embracing darkly
    by Rossetti 31 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 6 12:06 AM 2007. In Personal
  • The Eternal Abyss - an agnostic's lament
    I have picked my way carefully
    'Cross my gibber plain* of frailty,
    by Rossetti 41 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 5 11:37 PM 2007. In Angst
  • Flying Free
    Quietly still, alone, I stand In an open field, clinging still
    by Rossetti 33 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 5 11:29 PM 2007. In Love
  • The Real Reality
    The telephone ringing tremulously Shattered, temporarily, my musing
    by Rossetti 14 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 5 10:24 PM 2007. In Personal
  • A Sonnet For Sylvia Plath
    I read your fractured verse, your bitter pain, Cankerously bleeding, corrupting love
    by Rossetti 14 lines, 1 comment, on Aug 3 6:04 AM 2007
  • For Emily Bronte
    I walked onto the moor, the mist and stone Walls clasping me close. My reality
    by Rossetti 18 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 3 6:00 AM 2007
  • The Woman Calling
    Isolated, alone, out of kilter With the schoolyard world of competition,
    by Rossetti 37 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 2 4:48 AM 2007. In Love
  • My Lover . . . Porphyria.
    With apologies to Robert Browning
    by Rossetti 31 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 2 4:44 AM 2007. In Love
  • For The First Time - My Song of Songs
    I sat, duty bound, listening / Dully to the parson's droning / Voice, whilst children shuffled restless / Under the watchful eyes of those / Enforcers of conformity. / Idly flicking through the Bible, / I ca
    by Rossetti 32 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 30 11:33 PM 2007. In Life, Love, Personal
  • The Dead man's Tree.
    My lazy holiday morning routine / Was suddenly disturbed by the rifle / Crack of the tree shattering, breaking clean / In two. It hovered momentarily / While I watched, cursing petulantly. / The tree
    by Rossetti 43 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 30 11:31 PM 2007. In Life, Personal
  • For Jaqueline du Pre
    Television flickering black and white / Confronting me. An image of the past, / Ashen. Dust, consumed in the anthracite / Flame. Grey waver
    by Rossetti 35 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 30 11:28 PM 2007. In Life, Personal
  • The Book Corner
    I used to sit absorbed, a book cuddled / Into my lap, weaving my romantic web. / A tide of childhood images - dappled. / A collage of imaginings. The ebb / Of whispered parental conversations / And flow of
    by Rossetti 39 lines, on Jul 30 11:24 PM 2007. In Life, Personal
  • My Lover's Spell
    by Rossetti 30 lines, on Jul 29 2:32 AM 2007. In Adult, Love
  • The Cave of Desire
    She came to me silently in the night / Took my hand, roused me from sleep and gently / Led me to the waterfall of delight, / Tumbling from the spring of life, temptingly. / We stood together, close but not touchi
    by Rossetti 13 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 18 2:03 AM 2007
  • Spendid Fragility
    Always meticulous, we poets craft words, / Phrases, images, rhymes, forever searching / For truth and beauty, countering absurd / Reality, bent upon denying / The perfect truth of imagination. / I watch swallow
    by Rossetti 36 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 18 1:02 AM 2007. In Love, Personal
  • Wishing and Hoping and Praying
    I have always adored Dusty Springfield. / I see her now, still, as I did back then, / At seventeen, sitting in the darkened / Hall watching her, fragile, circled by light, / Words, ordinarily trite, exploding / Like
    by Rossetti 30 lines, on Jul 17 10:18 PM 2007. In Love, Hope
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