Post Epithalamion



                       Post Epithalamion.
Move me to the sun where evening's opiate
suffuses my balcony, in Altano, Italy.
Where bougainvillea blooms sharp
against the cerulean sky.
Move me from my sick-bed, bring me
books, paper, pen, bring me lemon-
honeyed tea, your lips remembered
moist from the sea.
I will write anthems, codas
to your violence, burning deep
waves of passion, thrashing
against me.
Still, I am here. Still I will not
drown or go down. Instead
I will write your elegy,
a celebration, post-
epithalamion.

About this poem

This poem in the collection FANTASIA published in 2015 by Merton Press is an awakening to reality after a disastrous marriage.

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Written on August 30, 2000

Submitted on July 24, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDECAFCGHICJKCLA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 526
Words 90
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

CAROLE MORGAN HOPKIN

Poet and painter, Carole Morgan Hopkin M.A., has travelled and lived in Europe and America. An Associate Tutor in Cultural Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea, she now resides and works from her childhood home in the Swansea Valley. more…

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