Virginal Love
poem Elizabeth Russell poem Elizabeth Russell

Virginal Love

Who is she who can know my sorrow?

What woman, blameless, has lost the love

of a good man?

Truly, if I am without fault,

and he without guilt,

what woman can know my sorrow?

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The Feminine Crucifixion
poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell

The Feminine Crucifixion

I open my mouth

and I drink of thyself

I am a vessel - fill me

Fill me with thy agony

I’ll kiss away the bloody sweat

I’ll soothe the dried and bloody mat

of hair from off thy Sacred brow

and kiss the lips that suffer now

My eyes are dark, they cannot see

But what else shall there be but thee?

My mind can grasp your presence, Lord.

And that is all I shall gaze toward.

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All Wrong
poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell

All Wrong

The world is horrible - it’s all wrong

It is corrupt, and done

It is utterly eaten away from the inside

It is sterilized by shit

It is wiped clean of all that is good

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Borrowing
poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell

Borrowing

Borrowed finery

Borrowed future

How long do I have to wait for you,

wait for the future?

I have borrowed

against the day

When my disguise

will fall away…

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I Believe
Elizabeth Russell Elizabeth Russell

I Believe

I believe he will come back again

I believe this is not the end.

When flowers bloom, when Love commands

Christ will not let this time extend

And when he’s here vs. when he’s gone

the time shall flow like years have come…

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The Trinity of Times
poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell

The Trinity of Times

In the expectation that three times

I shall know

In the complication that twice

have come and gone

In the coronation of marriage

within my soul

I tremble, and I wait

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The Questions
poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell poem, poetry Elizabeth Russell

The Questions

What if I get married?

What if I have a kid?

Is this what you wanted,

When we were little kids?

The heartbreak wounds

The soul it sighs

The mind grapples with its lies.

Who are you now?

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A Queen’s Marriage - Part 2
Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell

A Queen’s Marriage - Part 2

Today, she sat upon her throne as upon a rock of refuge in the ocean, assailed by the pounding waves of questions and looks and simpers, and carefully, stoically, she kept her gaze straight ahead, looking neither to the right, nor to the left, nor into the eyes of any person.

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A Queen’s Marriage - Part 1
Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell Short Story, Fairy Tale Elizabeth Russell

A Queen’s Marriage - Part 1

She looked out her window at the courtiers filing past below, two-and-two: the wives flirting with the bachelors, the husbands ignoring their women in favor of business, and all their children neglected at home, and she shuddered. No, it was not to them she wished to show her splendor.

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