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Dr. Deborah Hall's avatar

one may think

her torturer is a man

but it is her inner enemy

her own sadistic superego

that convinced her to die

a cautionary tale

we all have one

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Dusty Hope's avatar

I have found the truth about true love -- really true love, is that at times, it is abusive. Sylvia is no Jane. Madness preyed on her with a shine and a knife. Her words lyrically could cut the wind in two. Sylvia sees through lies to their rapture. And rapture is at the end of the world.

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Anne's avatar

thanks for the link ;)

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Steve W. Wheeler's avatar

Thank you. Makes sense.

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Patris's avatar

Discover i am holding my breath as I read this. Or simply not breathing.

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Ethan Summers's avatar

One must be sure of the light he or she sees in the other first (and trust that partner), before deepening into the “dark” otherwise the journey will become a slippery one and he or she will loose the path entirely rambling amidst demons and despair… though, this kind of madness probably tastes good once in a while in the morning 😎 Thanks for the poem! I love it for its shades and twists

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Mary's avatar

For those thinking her husband did not abuse her, this (and other sources) says he did.

https://lithub.com/why-are-we-so-unwilling-to-take-sylvia-plath-at-her-word/

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Julie Dee's avatar

The first line is poignant to me. That idea of someone hungry for your suffering.

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Dusty Hope's avatar

I call sylvia a six shooter. she guns it down. and at every split in two there's a death, as to say a murder, a suffocation, a swearing off for good! and a surrender of anger to her shocking virility, which I find for myself is an immense pleasure to acknowledgement of reckoning and pain pure as fury, what I often refer to as unaffordable, because there is "no recess"

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Weston Parker's avatar

Very evocative, provocative.

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June Lowboy's avatar

Sylvia’s a great romp on the page, yes!—but I recommend you do the Sexton next.

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Poetic Outlaws's avatar

I've featured Sexton on this page quite a few times. She's simply brilliant.

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June Lowboy's avatar

👍

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June Lowboy's avatar

do, do, do

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Yumna Mahmood's avatar

He his been burning me with cigarettes,

I guess it's "has been"

Typos,

Whatever,

Marvellous!!

Seriously, I like short and hooking poetry and this one is both!!

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lalo kikiriki's avatar

What, indeed

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Lorenzo Orzari's avatar

Blade in heart! Skull on fire! On recognizing an ongoing crime, what next? Allow it to continue, become a numb knowing accomplice, allow the wound to be cut deeper with a twisting blade.. help grip the handle.. Blame the self, suffer in secret.. or expose, sentence and jail the fking criminal?

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D J's avatar

💔😭

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Clarice's avatar

Does the jailer represent the life of the human world?

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A. Jay Adler's avatar

She could have said, "It's over."

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Peter's avatar

Intense

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