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The silver net

Chapter 14: CONFESSION
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A sequence of lyrical meditations that shifts between dreamlike visions, confessional solitude, and mythic or biblical reverie. Recurring images of sea and shipwreck, roses and gardens, and masked or legendary figures are used to probe longing, shame, desire, and the hope for spiritual renewal. Poems alternate between dramatic monologue, fable-like sketches, and brief nocturnes, exploring the tensions between illusion and revelation, life and death, and love as both ensnaring and ennobling, producing a compact, contemplative cycle of symbolist-inflected verse.

CONFESSION

‘I love,’ she said, ‘a child of Eve, I love to love;
Loving, beloved, my heart content, I soar above
All other hopes in life and all the fears of death.
‘I love, my beauty and my innocence I give
To my beloved, and laugh, and am content to live,
And sing my passion with the nightingales and thrushes.
‘I love, I love. Have all your human dogmas power
Closer to bind my thoughts to him! God gave the flower
Its perfume, and the bird its song, and me my love.’