Morenica

By Lilia C. Maurane

Morenica is a piece of work that explores social and environmental issues through the use of allegory in poetic form. Comparisons between the nature of the self and the outside world, including the author's own take on feminine values and her position as a black woman will take readers into a personal perspective on social injustices, and how they can affect the human psyche in the worst of ways in these poems of love, healing, and hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781667850726

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Copyright © 2022 Lilia C. Maurane.

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Contents

Love Song

Lullaby of Fools

Black Horse

The Lowest Whore

La Belle et La Bête

Full Bloom

Promise

Sea of Stars

Macabre

Let Me Go

Love In a Graveyard

Flowers

Lovers’ Moon

Name Me

Tapestry

Of The Earth

Live

So Much for Freedom

Chains That Bind

Moon Vine

Human

Monsoons

Devotion

Perfection

At Death’s Door

Color Me in Earth

Doorway

The Walk of Stars

For Haiti

(2021 Earthquake)

The Nomad and The Orphan

The Blood That Paints

The Shadow and The Lamp

Dearest Lily,

Buried By Love

Silence Between Heartbeats

A Taste of You

Stranger of The Heart

The Wake of Life

Veils of Moonlight

Grace

Blood

Bard and Warrior

Sacred Dance

Set Sail

Breath of Winter

A Kiss

Morenica

Songbird

Candle Flame

The Lion Beyond the Veil

Love Song

The world is vast,

Its people strange,

A bird sings to croon the sunrise,

The beast lows for the moon,

A tree would whisper,

Its song fallen on deaf ears,

No different from the gentle lull of the sea,

But call on a storm,

Not one soul will ignore.

Cry for mercy,

Wounds may mar,

Blood may show,

Because you are not me,

Suffering becomes devotion’s love song,

Because you are not me,

Love is denied.

Little as the mice that scurry,

Beneath leaf and earth,

Dark as the night that rolls in from the West,

Other and uncanny,

With elusive power to woo,

Stars crown my head,

And Death becomes my name,

How sad, how dark,

Love was once my name,

To belong is a grief untold,

To be a stranger a desire,

Left unknown,

Cry for mercy,

Wounds may mar,

Blood may show,

Because you are not me,

Suffering becomes devotion’s love song,

Because you are not me,

Love is denied.

The lowest whore is a greater friend,

Than you who dangles gold,

From poisoned fingertips,

A beast holds more promise,

Than one who claims to be humankind,

The shadow that stalks us in dreams,

A better guard and leader,

Than those who vow to serve,

Death mocks life,

The broken promise,

We all must rewrite.

Cry for mercy,

Wounds may mar,

Blood may show,

Because you are not me,

Suffering becomes devotion’s love song,

Because you are not me,

Love is denied.

The rumbling of an oncoming storm,

Stirs one and all awake,

Time has gone and passed,

All meaning is lost,

All meaning is found,

And from the ashes of the cindered city,

The smell of lilies and corpses,

Permeate the air,

Coat hair and skin,

In the sentiment of a tattoo,

Wild eyes are spared,

A curse, or a gift?

Deny the beast its honored sacrifice,

The beast becomes you.

Cry for mercy,

Wounds may mar,

Blood may show,

Because you are not me,

Suffering becomes devotion’s love song,

Because you are not me,

Love is denied.

Destroy me from within and without,

The futile act will leave you in want,

Call me lame, black, or weak,

Shackle hands and feet,

Or break my heart with betrayal’s kiss,

Remember white