Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INSANITY, by EDA LOU WALTON


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INSANITY, by                    
First Line: My mind is dark with shadows of a sea
Last Line: My mind is dark with shadows of a sea.
Subject(s): Insanity; Love; Madness; Mental Illness


My mind is dark with shadows of a sea
That creeps unheard across a barren sand
And breaks unheard in silence over me.

Yet, -- smooth as any woman's breast is mine,
My limbs sweep slenderly in line,
My yearning arms, voluptuous and white
Encircle night.
He clasps me close and lays his cooling lips
Against my throat and curves his darkling form,
His cloud-streaked hair across my bosom slips
And down he broods in storm.
Passion is freed, he rages in desire,
His arms press lightning from me and I lie
Formless and loose about him, higher, higher,
He lashes me and drops me from the sky
To prostrate lands,
And there beside me stretches in the sands
While strange dew shines against his hair
And all hours long the paled moon creeps by
To watch us lying there.

My mind is dark, yet smoother is my breast
Than any other woman's, -- I must rest,
Within these waters pain may slip from me,
My mind is dark with shadows of a sea.





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