Challenge
Describe your favorite Shakespearean character. I'll start off.
Describe your favorite Shakespearean character, or their death scene, etc. Poetry/Free Verse
Ophelia.
You had fingers slender as willow leaves
and diaphanous, lily-white skin. Your hair
drifted like drenched reeds on a balmy,
languid current. Your lips were soaked,
bloated and pale, but for a streak of cranberry
red. You lay suspended; wreathed in rippling
violet, your lavender gown like a tranquil
field of hyacinth. Your eyes were numb
prisons, azure irises staring glassily into
the opaque waters of the brook, beneath
the winding willow tree. You had a song
on your lips as you fell from its branches,
a wistful ode to the herb-of-grace,
the amber flower of rue.
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