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Writer's pictureMelissa Julianne Severn

Trobairitz (Poem)

Updated: Jan 28, 2022

Trobairitz

by M. J. Severn


My orisons, though odious, are erudite

Tinctured with the covenants I write

Regarding you, in your baddest light

With supernumerary betrayals to shrive

My cognisance was the one who writ,

My delineated damsel the one who died,

I made his rue my greatest hit.


My friend who swam in my sonorous

Comfort, cleansing himself of the onerous

Kiss he coaxed to conquer us,

Egregious gob biting me bonkers

Still I savoured, even sang of, his arrogance

Such minims of minute lust

Lasting in my metrical heart of harridan.


You may libel me an elegiac tramp

Mutate my love into a reading lamp

Of glaring intimacy, I know you sank

Into her deaf hands, loyalty gone lank

So my melisma, rich upon our meeting,

Falls flat on its back as redolent skank

In a violent vrombir of weeping.


Trobairitz tears possess a prowess

Which concubines’ sloth cannot guess

Troubadours serenade their odalisque

As we hum into the bed’s regress

Vengeance voluble and voluptuous,

I sing until his coda’s breath

Time-travels and touches us.


I once snogged your savagery

With limber lyric lacking forgery

You spat akimbo on my ancestral tree

Slandered my seduction as sorcery

Ignored the nobility of birth

Which once usurped your anatomy,

I uttered undulations until it hurt.


My melody monopolising his history;

I made his moans my greatest work.


Trobairitz is the titular poem of M. J.'s debut poetry pamphlet. Purchase it now: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124917874993?mkevt=1&mkcid=16&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0


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