A Portrait In Georgia Poem by Jean Toomer

A Portrait In Georgia

Rating: 3.2


Hair-braided chestnut,
coiled like a lyncher's rope,
Eyes-fagots,
Lips-old scars, or the first red blisters,
Breath-the last sweet scent of cane,
And her slim body, white as the ash
of black flesh after flame.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Stephen 16 March 2018

Temptation, Beauty Death coil in an organ of a final shudder.

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Stephen W 05 December 2014

Bizarre and incomprehensible.

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Kim Barney 05 December 2014

This poem deserves to be poem of the day because ... uh, because ... I give up. Why?

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 05 December 2014

a lovely nice portrait..thanks for share

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Jean Toomer

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Washington D.C.
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