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@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; October 12, 1550, For Edward's Birthday

For months now, you have felt the efflorescence

within your delicate flesh of adolescence;

and already, your thriving soul aspires

to find and appreciate exquisite Love

according to your nature; such desires

are not shameful, despite the pratings of

prejudiced (perhaps even envious) prudes,

you shall not be thwarted by their attitudes.

Think of Elizabeth's---your grandmother's---

two younger, lovely and erstwhile brothers

whom Richard and his Lady, Queen Anne, freed

to love according to their own natures' need;

they who, like you, were happy to refuse

the confinements of starched shirts and stiff shoes.


J-Called

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The poem describes thoughts attributed to Edward VI, son of Henry VIII.  His grandmother, Elizabeth, the heiress of York, was the daughter of Edward IV, elder sister of Edward V and their younger brother Richard; who, I suggest, were actually protected by their uncle, Richard III and his Queen, Anne (formerly Neville) and was transported from the Tower of London to a safe haven in the English countryside to love and be loved according to their natures' needs and not imposed rules.  That Edward VI, like his grandmother's brothers, disliked the confinement of shirts and shoes is, of course, my own whimsical surmise.

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