What Inspires the Poetry?
What inspired Emily Isaacson's poem "The Apothecary's Daughter" was her favourite clothing line Armstreet.
To visit them: https://armstreet.com
The Apothecary Sonnets
The Apothecary's Daughter sonnets by Emily Isaacson.
Do not despise thou love, nor rue its share,
the shelter it provides is providence,
the elegance of home is free from cares,
and thine bent head in prayer is evidence.
I have many flowers in my garden,
each smells so sweetly of the summer’s air,
envelopes of color, secret wardens,
for all the trust that heav’n keeps guarded there.
If ever I should give my heart to one,
I would find her ’neath an arbour waiting;
my intimations second to her none,
there’d be one song in my mouth abating:
I would give thee my youth’s flattery now
that I may not prove false upon thy vow.
Last was I to read your cream folded note,
when I was still quite young, I would not laugh
at your sincerity, and my wood staff.
My reputation was my ivory throat.
I would take you at your word, upon sea
I float: saline is my buffer, salt pure
that reaches deep into my wounds, censured
as crystalline mine salt, deep in the green,
we move, we float, licensed liquidity.
And now the years have almost passed me by,
I remember you, the boy that once kythed
in books and music, gardens’ flow’r to me.
Do not let me forget the passing age,
that once held me, a player, on the stage.
--Emily Isaacson