Vicarus
A #poem in two parts

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i.

The candles’ wax
has dripped and run,
smoke cataracts
still cloud wicks’ suns

and shafts of light
through windows barred
are faded, slight
like the penitent’s scars

as he sits there
in his cell, alone,
on barren chair,
his lonely throne.

🧵👇🏼

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Rose hips

An ancient rose,
she’s trellised high.
Her velvet folds:
love’s fleeting sigh.

Damascus scent,
French pedigree,
in a purple tent
though wild and free.

From Aquitaine
I bore her hence,
her prickles’ pain:
sin’s sacrament.

Autumnal chill:
soft petals fade —
her thorns rest, filled
with love’s remains.

Serene she’s stayed,
grace still abides:
her blush decayed,
by thorns belied.

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Sacré Cœur d’Aquitaine
A #poem in two parts

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i.

Gothic details
in living sandstone,
rock veins under veils
by mason’s hands known.

A house built to wear
a Lady’s veiled wisdom,
her hair, ringed by stars,
lit with stainèd glass prisms.

They shine on her throne,
the seat of her mind,
where our love has long grown,
sung on chords intertwined.

🧵👇🏼

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Beards and Table Manners (c. 1340)

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“I said “Lady, gladly,
Tell me, what is it?”
She said: “I would be pleased
If they did not let their beards
Hang in the wine as they drink.
So that it drips off them.
It is better to drink
From clean twigs
Of sage or hyssop
Than from the hair of their beards.”
I said: “Lady, very well,
So go forth and tell them
I, my gentle lady,
Will not need the reminder.”

See more: https://www.culina-vetus.de/2024/05/05/on-beards-and-table-manners/

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Why is Mars associated with Love and Venus with Glory in a fifteen century, Crown of Aragon, performance-poem?

Today's Poem:

Green Groweth the Holly
- by Henry VIII

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/717825297502879744/green-groweth-the-holly?source=share

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