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Sonnets for Boadicea  

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2/28/2010 10:40 am
Sonnets for Boadicea
Sonnet 1: How Boadicea Lived

She, trembling, shakes anger cascade hair,
Superb, in every attitude queenly,
Ermine clavicles, blue-bloom bosom bare,
Stride strode, amid multitudes unseemly.
Retribution flank skin icon tribal,
Wind-charging lustily: battalion forge
Romans burnt-brutal, flank-flogging libel
Let me climb your grand limbs and you adore
Incant, taunt skin flask, sour grape devour
Her teeth were tough, her hands tied chaffed grim
Traitor men coldly cross'd her taunt tower
Her knees, soft meat-boil, flesh-fallen limbed
We chant: bella detesta matribus
Her breath, wet unwanted sin, clamored us

Sonnet 2: How Boadicea Died

A lesser feeling numb grieved- they sinned�
Rome fist-flanked- her grandeur marvel dour
Limbs leanly grit-ground, pearl nimble shinned
Mounting her stead, riding past dusk's dark hour,
Remote horizontal chalk cliffs � compact
Powder white skin, salt fear sweat slide trickle
Cur ante tubam tremor occupat
Artus? Virgil asked, philosophical
Seeing/discovered from that choking cleft
Iceni Britons - her footnote nation
Scribes- victory relates, not the bereft
Her history - mute parchment dictations
Abiit ad maiores (swallowing)
She has gone to the ancestors (they sing)

Boadicea llustration by A.S. Forrest for
"Our Island Story: a 's Primer"
(first published in Britain, 1923)

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