Poe’tess
A haiku about the Tortured Poetess Sylvia Plath
She re-visits the
room where roses are dead and
violets never bloomed.
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Authors Note:
Plaths Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982 after her she succumbed to death by suicide in 1963.
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Natasha Collazo
Selected Writer in Residency, Champagne France ---2026
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Comments (10)
Wow, good job. Nailed the haunting theme, and such a powerful and subverting play on the roses are red poetry trope. Painful history, the context makes your haiku very nearly a real, bleeding thing.
Tragically beautiful haiku 🥹.
great haiku Plath was such a tragic figure. Sad that the mental help she needed was unavailable to her.
Wonderful Haiku. Well Doe!!!
Constantly checking. Just checking to see if something has changed until I can't take it anymore. Powerful 3 lines in 17 syllables. I can identify more than you probably want to know.
Great haiku! Plath was such an amazing writer.
I quoted her "Mad Gorl's Love Song" in my Snackwallahnelle poem, and amazing writer an dyour poem is wonderful
Oh, Collazo is back poeming! Plath was amazing...but, like so many deeply human, deeply feeling writers and artists - sadly battling a lot of shit. Loved this little poem, Natasha, amiga!
Oh wow, that's tragic. Any idea why she committed suicide? Loved your Haiku!
Who is he?