Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHANGELING, by HAROLD CALEB DALTON


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CHANGELING, by                    
First Line: I do not understand
Last Line: Cannot hold the sea?
Alternate Author Name(s): Dalton, Power
Subject(s): Desire


I do not understand
My changeling self at all,
Why should my heart answer
A wild bird's call?

Why should dancing iris,
Sandaled by a pool,
Burn my eyes with sudden tears --
Make me play the fool?

Oh, I ache with longing
Reaching to the sky,
I, an earthly creature,
Yearning so to fly!

Why is loveliness a sword
Thrusting deep in me,
Wounding me because my arms
Cannot hold the sea?





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