Shinto Shrine Maiden

Posted on July 4, 2017 by oglach

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How could you do it—

steal my breath away like that

—a fox in the night

 

moonstruck and foaming

at the mouth as I kiss you

our souls intertwined

 

you brought me to peace

and then tore me to pieces

Shinto shrine maiden

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26 Responses to Shinto Shrine Maiden

  1. megaeggz says:
    July 4, 2017 at 6:45 pm

    Romance at the shinto man. A fine poem

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  2. The Perilous Reading Society says:
    July 4, 2017 at 8:12 pm

    Glouriously passionate, epically tragic. Bravo, my friend ⚔

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  3. incarceratedshadows says:
    July 4, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    Great write Oglach.
    Good Love gone bad.

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  4. MC Clark says:
    July 4, 2017 at 9:56 pm

    First you’re up, and then you’re down…such is love. Great poem, O.

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  5. skat says:
    July 5, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    Love this Og! Nice to see you playing with the form. I think I’ll try this sort of thing – telling a story with the haiku.
    The line “foaming at the mouth” is jarring and disconcerting, but that challenge makes it all the more wonderful. Well done!

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  6. samantha lucero says:
    July 6, 2017 at 12:36 am

    ❤ "moonstruck and foaming

    at the mouth as I kiss you" ❤ loved that.

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  7. Poet Rummager says:
    July 6, 2017 at 2:19 am

    When love’s no longer burning, it can get cold and biting. Lyrical, beautiful, and doomed.

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  8. michnavs says:
    July 6, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    So passionate….but arggg…tragic…why?????

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    • oglach says:
      July 6, 2017 at 11:25 pm

      Your comment makes me beam with pride. 🙂
      In the story in my mind for this poem, the shrine maiden is a fox spirit that has taken human form. A man falls in love with her. She loves him back but it cannot be, because they are from different worlds. It’s based on an old Japanese folk tale. Thank you for reading, Mich.

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  9. KC Redding-Gonzalez says:
    July 17, 2017 at 12:34 am

    Got to the folk tale right away…. you wily poet, you! A subject so well handled and so likely to handle the reader back…

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  10. Miss Gentileschi says:
    July 22, 2017 at 9:19 am

    Intense and beautiful! More of this please!!! 🙂

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  11. Maniparna Sengupta Majumder says:
    August 1, 2017 at 1:29 am

    Oh! How did I miss this one 😮

    A story told with a set of haiku poems…passionate and tragic. Great one… 🙂

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