Oh...Ophelia

by DonandVicki

As you drifted slowly downstream
the heart-broken willow brushed
your dark auburn hair as it wept.

They found you caught,
held tight in the bullrushes
petal-less posies floated by.

The moon bequeaths
its pallid reflection
in my love's drown-dead eyes.

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Free Form Poetry Contest contest entry

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#29
November
2024

Shakespear's Ophelia, she appears in Shakespear's play "Hamlet".
She is Hamlet's girlfriend. Ophelia is driven crazy by her
boyfriend and kills herself.

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Death by broken heart.

Oh...Ophelia

by DonandVicki

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