Scribo Scribere
A Literary Blog
I am a writer based in New Jersey. I have a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto. I have experience as a German to English translator, a technical writer, and a grant writer. In my writing, I explore myth, legend, and languages. This blog is devoted to my past and future writings. – Johanna Rodda
Month: May 2026
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Late at night, when shapes come shifting and I wonder at ancient pasts embedded now in outward trappings, the cause of Art, my body lies blanketed, my head on a pillow, medieval tune runs through the room, Angelus ad virginem, and there stands, carved in wood, upon a high pedestal, my own, great, gray goddesshead.…
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Light for a Lost Love Because laying a light is the greatest form of kindness, I will lay a little light for you tonight. I’ve wondered long about the proper way to let you know, in your eternal absence, that I think of you still, and always will. The candle rests upon the window sill.…
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This love poem pays homage to the biblical Song of Songs. A Hart Leaping Leaving Eros’s arms was torture. Leaving yours, the whole world and all the manna of Eden. I sing of you as a hart in the hills, as a poet upon our bed of spices. You give me wine to drink and…
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This poem is devoted to all those who have lost a dear loved one. On Grief In my heart is sadness supreme, yet Nature shows me other face. On grass I look, and a stream lightly fulfilling mortal race. I write some words so as to show I am still all here below while he…
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Lesser Leaf I make my thought of this, my own volition – whereby I know, wherefore, I mean, not without a heart to seem, not too far or near away – that is what I thought to create in this, my mind most animate, and creating, verily, made my ‘verse’s merrily enacted course divorce itself…
