Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for January:
Velvet Shoes, by Elinor Wylie

Let us walk in the white snow
In a soundless space;
With footsteps quiet and slow,
At a tranquil pace,
Under veils of white lace.
[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/01/velvet-shoes-elinor-wylie_19.html

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Faraway Star wrote:

On Friday, January 5, 2024 at 12:00:15 PM UTC-5, George J. wrote:

Penny's Poetry Blog's featured poem for January:
Velvet Shoes, by Elinor Wylie

Let us walk in the white snow
In a soundless space;
With footsteps quiet and slow,
At a tranquil pace,
Under veils of white lace.
[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2011/01/velvet-shoes-elinor-wylie_19.html >>
#pennyspoems

Excellent find excellent read GD...

Thank you for commenting and giving more people a chance to read it, Zod. It is indeed an excellent poem, and Wylie is a major talent who's sadly been mainly forgotten.


She published 3 collections of poetry and 4 novels in the 1920s, but died in 1928 aged just 43. At the time of her death she was married to her third husband, poet William Rose Benet; his poem "Sagacity" is about her. https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/
2010/09/sagacity-william-rose-benet.html

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