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[lillassea]

Where Summer sits braiding her warm, white brows
With bramble-roses...here you may meet with Beauty.

(Madison Cawein, 1865-1914)*_________________________________________

Comments

[sidhe_etain]

(wishes I had been there for the first Maiden get-together)
(misses you)
(wants to braid your hair now)

[gigglingwizard]

Braided eyebrows?

[lillassea]

I'm sure it means "forehead" (assuming it's a woman he means to depict), like she's braiding bramble-roses together as a wreath for her brow. Don't know why the plural though. Some kind of archaism maybe?

[lillassea]

Or maybe also it's meant to suggest the brows of hills, braided with bramble-roses? White, though... pale grasses? Who knows. I actually like it more for the vagueness of it. My own brain tends to sharpen and polish everything to death if you know what I mean, so I sometimes like writing that's a bit vague, obtuse or obscure... impressionistic rather than photorealism.

eyebrows

[rfunk]

For when they get *really* long..... Better braided than bushy. ;-)

[medievalmuse]

I love St. James Court...not just for the lovely architecture, but the memories of that trip:)

Thanks for sharing the poetry.