Title: Beverly's Lament
Author: R. Schultz( cousindream@msn.com )
Fandom: Star Trek series: TNG
Code: A bit of F/F, Violence
Pairing: Crusher/Yar/Troi
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Rich middle-aged white guys at
Paramount and ViaBorgCom own Trek. I'm just borrowing the
characters so I can have fun. Poem mine under Berne Laws. 500 words, Jan. 2004
Warning: This Sestina (French poem) includes references to lesbianism and death. If this upsets you, leave.
Do not read. All residing in a thought-free or a censored community or country probably shouldn't read any
of this either. Shmoo!
Written for the kinky people at the FFF, and will be archived at the ASCEML. Comments as always to:
cousindream@msn.com
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BEVERLY'S LAMENT ~ A Sestina
by R. Schultz
I knew a girl too well named Tasha Yar. Damn her eyes!
Damn her eyes! She left me bare and tore in two my heart
Damn her eyes! Her honied words left me weak and faint
Damn her eyes! Her full red lips burned icy hot on mine
Her sighs roared loud, and her hands with mine entwined
Yet Tasha left me for a curvy lass with hair of curly jet
In times grown past I'd loved the lass with hair of jet
Then her lingering kisses went to Tasha Yar. Damn her eyes!
Our love so fierce some, I thought sure our souls entwined
Then her cold disdain splintered in shards my brittle heart
With a thousand lies she crushed the little once was mine
I was left with naught but bitter tears and echoes faint
Since then, my quiet moments pain, and leave me faint
The fleeing stars turn pale and wan in the night of jet
I hold but memories, and they in turn hold nothing mine
They are the ashes of Natasha's smiles. Damn her eyes!
I am not yet perished, for I feel the pulse of heart
But part of me will always be with far cold Yar entwined
Deanna held Natasha, once I held Deanna, we in Yar entwined
Naught now warms my bed but lies forgotten; grown faint
She swore of love, I swore of forever, she broke my heart
She left me for my dearest friend (she of eyes of total jet)
Then she left us both with naught at all. Damn her eyes!
She worked too well the gold-bearing ore of passion's mine
Now Yar has leapt into a starfield darker far than any mine
Natasha Yar has gone over, and with Eternity is now entwined
She went and died and left me stony bare. Damn her eyes!
No recourse remains, my barren sighs at night grow faint
She has fallen far beyond entreaties into a well of jet
Where stars, hopes, mesons dimly glow, and chill the heart
Photon torpedo took her kiss, and smile, and frigid heart
Distant space's chilly arms are about what once was mine
Ten-Forward's views are ladders into endless holes of jet
Yet I sit and drink and smile and talk and ne'er grow faint
With eyes unblinking I gaze with memories us once entwined.
Across from me a woman smiles; we touch first with eyes
Deanna is my love tonight; I drown in breasts and eyes
We afterward lay close, my ear detecting beat of heart
Her skin has scent of sweat and distant spices faint
Yar had smelled of soap, ginger, lemons, next to mine
We lay entangled, our needs and our thighs entwined
I cannot see her eyes at night for they are of ebon jet
Faint promises I whisper in her hair of jet. We part, for now, but
further nights oft find us breathless and entwined again. Still yet
mine heart recalls enduring Tasha Yar. Damn her eyes!
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Notes: What is a Sestina?
It is a type of poetry originating in
France in the 12th century.
The poem calls for six stanzas of six lines each, or in the Italinate version, seven stanzas of six lines each,
followed by a three-line Envoi. The last words of the lines of the first stanza are repeated in each line in each
following stanza, and all six words are part of the three line Envoi. The order is 1-2-3-4-5-6 for the first
stanza, and the second stanza is 6-1-5-2-4-3 and the third stanza is 3-1-4-1-2-5 and so on. This progression
allows the seventh stanza to repeat the last words in the original order.
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