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Tag: darkness, poetry

Theodore Roethke

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?

darkness, poetry

Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

darkness, poetry

Black was the without eyeBlack the within tongueBlack was the heartBlack the liver, black the lungsUnable to suck in lightBlack the blood in its loud tunnelBlack the bowels packed in furnaceBlack too the musclesStriving to pull out into the lightBlack the nerves, black the brainWith its tombed visionsBlack also the soul, the huge stammerOf the cry that, swelling, could notPronounce its sun.

darkness, poetry

She always walked under the arches of nightsAnd everywhere she wentShe leftThe mark of broken things.

darkness, poetry

All I know is a door into the dark

darkness, poetry

All I know is a door into the dark

darkness, poetry