Today’s submission is by Ana Elsner. You can read more about her at her Wikipedia page. I especially recommend her poem there called “Poetry.”
OBOE
The unhurried echo
of an oboe,
attuned femaleness
of sound,
contains me.
Chromosomes of Woman,
bestowed on me
in my wombed beginning,
make me
a sounding reed,
like the oboe.
Chromosomes of Woman,
my manifest prerogative,
make me
subject to no restrictions
of scale.
Like the oboe
I am the unhurried echo
of female sovereignty
trailing
the wind.
© 2006 Ana Elsner
From CIPHERS OF UNCOMMON ORIGIN -Poems by Ana Elsner.
Reprinted by permission.
beautiful. a slow, steady, deep rolling river.
If you like ‘Oboe’, read another poem by Ana Elsner. The name of her poem is “Dawn”. It is illustrated with a beautiful image. –
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