Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAGDALENE, by FRANCES VEJTASA


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MAGDALENE, by                    
First Line: Your face tradition wrongs
Last Line: Placed blight -- not heaven.
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


Your face tradition wrongs
with sensuous trace
-- poor stricken maiden --

Portray thus they dare
prostrated purity

Whose tears and beauteous hair
-- slight remaining gifts --

Crowned Him whom leaders
nailed to death.

His blessings draped in white
the soul where men's hard lips
placed blight -- not heaven.





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