Limerick: Once the Middle Kingdom's top Concubine

Limerick: Once the Middle Kingdom’s top Concubine

 

Once the Middle Kingdom’s top Concubine*

Said to rule China through love combine

Dallying generals: O! Dear!

Forced Emperor to fear:

Eunuch strangled her at Buddhist shrine.

 

*Emperor Xuanzong’s Consort and his daughter-in-law,

Yang Guifei, 719-756 C.E.

 

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013