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our Cassandra’s agony
torments
in poems of prophecy
and breaks our hearts
upon the stone of her insanity
she calls on death to visit one self-appointed night
and we, her guardian angels, wearied by the fight
still
we soldier on with all our might
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©2012,poem,Jamie Dedes,All rights reserved * Painting/Cassandra by Evelyn De Morgan (1885-1919), U.S. public domain.
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Jamie Dedes is a Lebanese-American poet and free-lance writer. She is the founder and curator of The Poet by Day, info hub for poets and writers, and the founder of The Bardo Group, publishers of The BeZine, of which she was the founding editor and currently a co-manager editor with Michael Dickel. Ms. Dedes is the Poet Laureate of Womawords Press 2020 and U.S associate to that press as well. Her debut collection, "The Damask Garden," is due out fall 2020 from Blue Dolphin Press.
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Like Lilith (in your previous poem), Cassandra is a powerful symbol of silence / banishment as a punishment for truth-speaking. A powerful prophecy in itself, the last two lines show the failure of the attempt at suppression:
“still
we soldier on with all our might”
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