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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1071603-Ophelia
Rated: 13+ · Book · Cultural · #2299350
Poems for years 4 and 5 of the Promptly Poetry Challenge.
#1071603 added May 23, 2024 at 8:15pm
Restrictions: None
Ophelia
A lady floats upon a river between towering banks.


Ophelia

Thus from the bridge,
borne by the careful current
on measured waves and shadowed water,
between the Scylla and Charybdis
of towering banks,

she floats with unseeing eyes,
life’s last kindness unwilling
to draw the curtain
on this final view of skies afire,
wasted in a life cut short.

And so she carries Hamlet’s future,
empty now of all but retribution,
a wild orgy of death and dying,
his bride forgotten in the stream.



Line count: 14
Free verse
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 43 2024
Prompt: As per illustration.


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