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adwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies
Yadwigha, the literalists once wondered how youCame to be lying on this baroque couchUpholstered in red velvet, under the eyeOf uncaged tigers and a..
© Sylvia Plath
Childless Woman
The wombRattles its pod, the moonDischarges itself from the tree with nowhere to go.My landscape is a hand with no lines,The roads bunched to a..
© Sylvia Plath
Female Author
All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world:Favored (while suddenly the rains beginBeyond the window) she lies on cushions curledAnd..
© Sylvia Plath
Owl
Clocks belled twelve. Main street showed otherwiseThan its suburb of woods : nimbus—-Lit, but unpeopled, held its windowsOf wedding pastries,Diamond..
© Sylvia Plath
Family Reunion
Outside in the street I hearA car door slam; voices coming near;Incoherent scraps of talkAnd high heels clicking up the walk;The doorbell rends the..
© Sylvia Plath
Dirge For A Joker
Always in the middle of a kissCame the profane stimulus to cough;Always from teh pulpit during serviceLeaned the devil prompting you to laugh.Behind..
© Sylvia Plath
Love Is A Parallax
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy:train tracks always meet, not here, but onlyin the impossible mind's eye;horizons beat a retreat as we..
© Sylvia Plath
Metaphors
I'm a riddle in nine syllables,An elephant, a ponderous house,A melon strolling on two tendrils.O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!This loaf's big with..
© Sylvia Plath
A Sorcerer Bids Farewell To Seem
I'm through with this grand looking-glass hotelwhere adjectives play croquet with flamingo nouns;methinks I shall absent me for a whilefrom rhetoric..
© Sylvia Plath
A Winter Ship
At this wharf there are no grand landings to speak of.Red and orange barges list and blisterShackled to the dock, outmoded, gaudy,And apparently..
© Sylvia Plath
All The Dead Dears
Rigged poker -stiff on her backWith a granite grinThis antique museum-cased ladyLies, companioned by the gimcrackRelics of a mouse and a shrewThat..
© Sylvia Plath
Daddy
You do not do, you do not doAny more, black shoeIn which I have lived like a footFor thirty years, poor and white,Barely daring to breathe or..
© Sylvia Plath
Riddle: Terry lives part-time in a mobile home, but it is a most unusual place. Terry's mobile home has no front or back door, so Terry can only..
Riddle: We first appeared outside in the early 1940s during World War II. Our construction was a simple mixture of glass and aluminum, with a..
Riddle: The first is kept by the albatross, which first lands in our region. The second occurs every night in shooting, swimming, fighting, singing..
Riddle: Three men, three women, and six young children are all seated around a table, staring at a dead body. This is neither a wake nor a funeral..
Riddle: On a certain planet located in one of the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, three life forms are seeking to capture other life forms..
Riddle: What can be held without hands but has to be let go?Answer: A grudge.
Riddle: I would hold you in my embrace until you go blue in the face. You're a deer, you're the apple of my eye eat me and you'll die. What am..
Riddle: Mississippi has four S's and four I's. Can you spell that without using S or I?Answer: T-H-A-T!
Riddle: A poor, elderly woman lived alone with her dog. One day she noticed her dog appeared to be very hungry, so she went to her food storage area..
Riddle: How do scientists freshen their breath?Answer: With experi-mints.
Riddle: Terry was having a bad day, after having a bad week and a bad month. His long-time bridge partner had just moved away, and the stock he held..
Riddle: A young, aspiring musician who lived on a farm, had been given the task of monitoring the family’s livestock. The young lad was supposed to..
Riddle: Irene is an amazing artist. She can draw anything and everything, and draw them all well. The unique thing about Irene's art is she uses both..