LADIES I

(CYCLE : STIGMA OF OUR SOULS )

You’re young miss, riding trough forest

On horseback, far away to school

You have a revolwer in your pocket

At an unexpected attacker to schoot

 

You are cute blond hair, blue eyes

 In boy’s outfit you are dressed

Your horse quick,well-groomed, gray

You come back to manor every day

 

And then, my young miss, a war

Suddenly takes from you it all

Parents, horses, youth, manor

You are left alone in cruel world

 

Your fortidude, beauty and grace 

Give you husbands and many kids 

I’m delighted once to see you  in cafe

So elegant,in wide-brimed hat

With your two daughter cokiet eat

Girls have long blond braids

 

Years later when in hospital,my lady

Someone leave a newborn baby

You raise this girl and adopt

She call you no grandma but mom

 

            *****

 

You’re too a lady cute, great

Always effective, warm-hearted

You support every around, help

As child you saw in war poverty, death

 

When your kids  already are grown up

You give them a good start in life

Your husband cheating you, sad tell me

You go to church to pray for him

 

And when suddenly he dies

A large stone you order to find

To cut in half, to write : you and me

And you help  others still long time

 

               *****

 

You are too a lady cute, great

Must live with cripled stepfather

You’re dilligent university student

You love secretly a certain lecturer

 

You distribute anti-goverments leaflets

Are in demonstrations, in hunger strikes

Dancing, reading, photography you like

So delicate, beatiful, green-eyed…

In misterious circumstances you die

 

           *****

 

I’m sleeping this night in room of great lady

She lived here in youth,great lady of poetry

In the large window her curtains hang still

Upon a timeshe sewed it, white with frills

 Her white, iron bed, art noveau, sisterly

 

The poet was driven outhence by war

Here her cups in deteriorating house

 Large, neglected garden in outside

In old trees sleeps her childish voise

 

( November 27, 2024 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Regina Obergard

Regina Obergard’s poetry is a fierce testament to the divine spark within each of us.

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