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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BURNING DAWN by HAYDEN CARRUTH ETUDES DE PLUSIERS PAYSAGES DE L' AME: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE LAST MAN'S CLUB by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: ANTON SOSNOWSKI by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. SIBLEY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |