Bathsheba by Deborah Guzzi

Bathsheba by Jean Leon Gerome, 1899.

Bathsheba
 
A cornucopia of soft skinned delight                                     
who would not pose beneath tangerine sky,                          
stands in dreamt abandon, unscreened, on high,                   
raped in daylight, by King, or fancy’s flight.                         
Ah, the conquest, not to be denied, the might,                      
as chattel mourn, each she conforms once born;                   
her path forsworn, say those who judge and scorn,   
raped in daylight, by King, or fancy’s flight.                         
Each voyeur must own their lust, the deer’s plight              
hunted from on high, spied on by unknown shamed
outside the window or frame, it is the same                          
raped in daylight, by King, or fancy’s flight.                                     
A cornucopia of soft skinned delight
raped in daylight, by King, or fancy’s flight.

Deborah Guzzi

Deborah Guzzi's poetry appears in Magazines: Existere - Journal of Arts and Literature in Canada, Tincture in Australia, Cha: Asian Literary Review, Hong Kong, China, Eunoia in Singapore, Latchkey Tales in New Zealand, Vine Leaves Literary Journal in Greece, mgv2>publishing in France, RedLeaf Poetry, India and Travel by the Book, Ribbons: Tanka Society of America Journal, Sounding Review, Kyso Flash, The Aurorean, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, Liquid Imagination, Poetry Quarterly, Page & Spine, Ekpjrastic: Writing & Art on Writing and others in the USA. Her new book The Hurricane is available now through Prolific Press.