pictures by rhoda penmarq
 there are things about being a cad some are good, some bad many over rated others underappreciated  but being fought over in public by lovely women is a subject not sufficiently rendered, i'm sure in classic literature heroines of ancient romances were limited to demure glances and did not exert their tender muscles in interfeminine tussles  as objects of manly competition they respected a tradition where the brave deserved the fair and carried her unresisting to his lair but in this new world of confusion metamorphosis and illusion with the old ways discarded and mocked and babes in arms immune to shock  the fluttering eyelid is no more the maid steps boldly to the fore in darkest midnight or broadest day and seizes on her startled prey  heedless of any scandaled glance and giving decency no chance astounds the assembled audience by insisting on her preference  this modern maiden, in her glory rewriting the poet's ancient story "has pleasures of her own to give" who've never known them, have not lived |
4 comments:
again, wonderful
Horace is the man.
Dueling maidens! How does one get into this cad business?
really liked this... read it several times... each time from a different viewpoint... once i was a man... once a woman... once i was traditional... once modern... once a poet... once a sociologist... once a psychologist... once just a human being...
and each time... i found it a great work... depicting man's soul very sincerely...
i'm not quite for everything modern... but i always think about the things in the traditional way of thinking that called for a change... here this is the dominant force again... what things were ignored about the women in the traditional approach that lead them to the modern way of life? and sure there will be another change in store for the modern women...
in this way, we can always find a balance... as the last stanza suggests...
really thoughtprovoking work!
loved it!
what a pity i couldn't see the pics...
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