Do you like reading deeply spiritual and mystical poetry?

 Do you like reading deeply spiritual and mystical poetry?

With imagery evoking heritage, supernatural guidance, and a longing for a much-needed destiny? 

Then read on about the dreams of, Miss Applegate, while living in Hades. 

(Hades in this case represents living in a state of high emotional turmoil. Maybe you know the feeling? Salute)

Rêves de Miss Applegate

(Dreams of Miss Applegate)

(A female voice whispers)

I can still see her 

Old Marie Laveau

Dressed in motherly blue 

I can't pretend

In my grandma's old passed down scrying mirror

Looking back 

And smiling 

Summoned to haunt me 

From when I visited 

Big Mama Aurelia

Somewhere out on the water village of the Grand Bayou

For she announced the end of me being single

And a time and place of happiness, I still cannot see, where I'll mingle

A time when the Great Kamadeva will walk in 

Like a proud Captain Jake, and tempt me to sin

In new where's and how's, the what if's and so's

So, sometimes I stand dressed in my Mama's old white wedding dress

Looking in my long black and gold mirror, pleading to know my fate

To save this damsel in distress

In what year, month, or day, will she come see me? 

Before each winter's year ending snow, and whisper

This year, the waiting ends, Josefina

So I can celebrate the overthrow of yet another phase of living in Hades

But until then, I'll just go back to masquerading on my life's only solo holy mission

On my heart's beating crusade 

Looking for true love, before I too like, Old Marie Laveau, fade away

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Kamadeva is the god of human love and passion, who is known to awaken carnal desires among humans.

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