Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CROSSING, by IRENE HALDERSON


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THE CROSSING, by                    
First Line: A soft, black sponge envelopes me
Last Line: An ardent life enthusiast!
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


A soft, black sponge envelopes me;
I float within a velvet sea;
A shining figure gropingly
Stoops down to breathe infinity
Into my body wasted low
And wrapped in racing undertow;
And as I gently, swiftly go
I do not find in death a foe,
Though all the years I lived rush past
With scenes I gladly would recast.
How strange that death can soothe at last
An ardent life enthusiast!





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