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Alex Carr-Malcolm poet, Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Archetypes, Bluebeard, Found Poetry, poetry, UK poet, Uk poetry, Yorkshire poet
Picture credit: “The Last Door of Bluebeard” by David et Myrtille
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Bluebeard’s Folly
All women, watching, waiting;
Men, the ancient foe,
Bluebeardian force,
without conscious origin,
failed magician,
archetypal shard,
break the rules of Death,
as Lucifer dared to venture beyond,
to contravene nature.
In them, desire,
loftier than Life and Death,
loneliness washes over him.
© Bluebeard’s Folly 2014
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
taken from page 41 – Women Who Run With the Wolves
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
