Bess
A Burning Desire27 total reviews
Comment from Bucketlist
Tony, you're a Shakespearean genie ars! You never fail to amaze me which your great poetry. Half the time I have to ingest it by reading it over twice. And the effort you put into the notes is exemplary. You present quality stuff, 'me ol fruit. It is in my opinion rare to find such a guy. Thanks for sharing, I hope you get to read my "Passion Bloom" poem, same action, less consequences.
Hug,
Trisha
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Tony, you're a Shakespearean genie ars! You never fail to amaze me which your great poetry. Half the time I have to ingest it by reading it over twice. And the effort you put into the notes is exemplary. You present quality stuff, 'me ol fruit. It is in my opinion rare to find such a guy. Thanks for sharing, I hope you get to read my "Passion Bloom" poem, same action, less consequences.
Hug,
Trisha
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Your review gave me a good laugh! I enjoyed your poem too. Great minds think alike! LOL Thanks very much for the six stars. Appreciated! Tony
Comment from Dean Kuch
This reads very smoothly, Tony, and as a work of fiction it all seems very realistic.
Now, while I realize this is an entry for the Love Poetry Contest, it could have just as easily been written for the Share a Story in a Poem Contest as well and done just as well in the final judging.
Sinsational piece of poetry.
Bravo...
~Dean
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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This reads very smoothly, Tony, and as a work of fiction it all seems very realistic.
Now, while I realize this is an entry for the Love Poetry Contest, it could have just as easily been written for the Share a Story in a Poem Contest as well and done just as well in the final judging.
Sinsational piece of poetry.
Bravo...
~Dean
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Yes, I?d have entered it there in preference, but already have another poem in that contest. Only a love poem at a pinch. More of a lust poem really!
Comment from nancy_e_davis
Wonderful Story in a poem Tony. The poem
is in perfect pentameter and abcb rhyme.
Poor Bess. I think this is a good entry
for the contest. Good luck my friend. Nancy
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Wonderful Story in a poem Tony. The poem
is in perfect pentameter and abcb rhyme.
Poor Bess. I think this is a good entry
for the contest. Good luck my friend. Nancy
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Thanks, Nancy. I appreciate the encouragement. Tony
Comment from Joy Graham
Hi Tony,
Thank you for the background information to understand your poem better. I'm having trouble thinking of this poem as love or romance. Then again, even in the voting booths I never seem to pick the entries that everybody else picks to win.
Joy
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Hi Tony,
Thank you for the background information to understand your poem better. I'm having trouble thinking of this poem as love or romance. Then again, even in the voting booths I never seem to pick the entries that everybody else picks to win.
Joy
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Thanks, Joy. I guess it?s more of a lust poem really. Tony
Comment from Rasmine
Hello,
I have a suggestion in your author's notes, TFawcus:
"she desired to have one Andrew Byles to her (to 'be' her) husband, which was a man of some wealth, and the cat did promise she should, but that he said she must first consent that this Andrew could abuse her, and so she did.
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Hello,
I have a suggestion in your author's notes, TFawcus:
"she desired to have one Andrew Byles to her (to 'be' her) husband, which was a man of some wealth, and the cat did promise she should, but that he said she must first consent that this Andrew could abuse her, and so she did.
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Thanks, Rasmine. That part in inverted commas is a direct quote from the 16th Century charge sheet - hence the archaic language.
Comment from Meia (MESAYERS)
The suspected witch, Elizabeth Frances, confessed to using a cat called Satan to harm a number of people. One of the charges against her was that "she desired to have one Andrew Byles to her husband, which was a man of some wealth, and the cat did promise she should, but that he said she must first consent that this Andrew could abuse her, and so she did.
And after when this Andrew had thus abused her he would not marry her, wherefore she willed Satan to waste his goods, which he forthwith did, and yet not being contented with this, she willed him to touch his body, which he forthwith did wherefore he died". She was found guilty and hanged. The common perception is that witches were sentenced to death by burning, but hanging was in fact more common in England. However, as I have said, this is a work of fiction! I loved the poem and the story in the notes even more- fascinating! A brilliant write with many interesting words and the notes are superb also well done a six for sure! Love and regards Meia xx
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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The suspected witch, Elizabeth Frances, confessed to using a cat called Satan to harm a number of people. One of the charges against her was that "she desired to have one Andrew Byles to her husband, which was a man of some wealth, and the cat did promise she should, but that he said she must first consent that this Andrew could abuse her, and so she did.
And after when this Andrew had thus abused her he would not marry her, wherefore she willed Satan to waste his goods, which he forthwith did, and yet not being contented with this, she willed him to touch his body, which he forthwith did wherefore he died". She was found guilty and hanged. The common perception is that witches were sentenced to death by burning, but hanging was in fact more common in England. However, as I have said, this is a work of fiction! I loved the poem and the story in the notes even more- fascinating! A brilliant write with many interesting words and the notes are superb also well done a six for sure! Love and regards Meia xx
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Thanks, Meia. I appreciate the six stars and the encouragement. Tony
Comment from estory
Plenty of bold colors in this tale of witchcraft and bedeviled love. There is a delicious mysterious air about it, the language swirls and enchants with its well wrought music and images. The star images I thought especially well done estory
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Plenty of bold colors in this tale of witchcraft and bedeviled love. There is a delicious mysterious air about it, the language swirls and enchants with its well wrought music and images. The star images I thought especially well done estory
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Thanks, extort. I appreciate the encouragement. Tony
Comment from Pantygynt
This is without doubt one of the finest retellings of a ghastly story as I have ever read. You are quite correct about the burning/hanging of witches. I think some of the border ballads may be responsible for the perpetuation of this myth, as the burning was fafoured north of the border cf "Long Lankin" who was
"...hanged from the gallows so high
and the false nurse she perished in the fire close by."
Langkin was a child murderer at the behest of the false nurse who had suggested the crime and had caught the blood of the innocent in a basin. The ballad is not clear as to the motive, but the blood of an innocent was held by some to be a cure for leprosy, and the ballad describes Langkin as an outcast who lived "in the moss".
This was magnificently told. The opening spondee is a marvelously strong substitution in the first line. The rest is perfect iambic pentameter throughout and faultless alternate rhyme.
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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This is without doubt one of the finest retellings of a ghastly story as I have ever read. You are quite correct about the burning/hanging of witches. I think some of the border ballads may be responsible for the perpetuation of this myth, as the burning was fafoured north of the border cf "Long Lankin" who was
"...hanged from the gallows so high
and the false nurse she perished in the fire close by."
Langkin was a child murderer at the behest of the false nurse who had suggested the crime and had caught the blood of the innocent in a basin. The ballad is not clear as to the motive, but the blood of an innocent was held by some to be a cure for leprosy, and the ballad describes Langkin as an outcast who lived "in the moss".
This was magnificently told. The opening spondee is a marvelously strong substitution in the first line. The rest is perfect iambic pentameter throughout and faultless alternate rhyme.
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Interesting. Yes, I'd heard that the Scots were more likely to burn their witches - perhaps because it's so bloody cold up there. Any excuse for a bonfire!
I very much appreciate your assessment of my poem and the six star award. Most affirming.
All the best,
Tony
Comment from frierajac
I loved this poem and the notes were very informative. I have been reading the history of the Inquisition in Guatemala, where I lived in the 80's. I had been thining something like this in a different setting. It is a wonderful poem, I think.
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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I loved this poem and the notes were very informative. I have been reading the history of the Inquisition in Guatemala, where I lived in the 80's. I had been thining something like this in a different setting. It is a wonderful poem, I think.
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Thanks, Carolyn. I imagine that a poem based in that setting would have quite some scope. I visited Guatemala in the 1990s and my daughter was there for quite a while on various photographic projects.
Comment from lyenochka
Well, unfortunately, your fiction is still based on real type of events that was in our history. Still, in some places have such horrible ways of killing people. It's quite a poem that tells a tragic tale. Thanks for the notes. I only knew Betelgeuse!
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Well, unfortunately, your fiction is still based on real type of events that was in our history. Still, in some places have such horrible ways of killing people. It's quite a poem that tells a tragic tale. Thanks for the notes. I only knew Betelgeuse!
Comment Written 13-Feb-2018
reply by the author on 13-Feb-2018
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Yes, what you say is sadly true. Man?s inhumanity is not by any means confined to the past.
