These are poems about the darker side of love: not all bad, but not a bed of roses either...
'Fascination With Light' is a poem that probes the dangerous nature of desire, in terms of the moth drawn to the flame that burns, and yet it keeps coming back for more. It's a wonderful poem about the darker side of love.
"Fascination with Light" is a personal favorite, so I'm glad you liked it.
I just discovered a longer version that I had forgotten for 25 years:
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And yet it returns on incessant wings—
ruthless grey monarch of the night air.
It flutters and stares
with huge primitive eyes, and it sees
beyond ruinous nights
to all the loveliness inherent there;
and it sings all the dark despair
of its unworthiness, in a frenzy of wings;
and its desolate womb holds incurled in silk
the husks of dread kings and pale lovers.
'Fascination With Light' is a poem that probes the dangerous nature of desire, in terms of the moth drawn to the flame that burns, and yet it keeps coming back for more. It's a wonderful poem about the darker side of love.
"Fascination with Light" is a personal favorite, so I'm glad you liked it.
I just discovered a longer version that I had forgotten for 25 years:
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And yet it returns on incessant wings—
ruthless grey monarch of the night air.
It flutters and stares
with huge primitive eyes, and it sees
beyond ruinous nights
to all the loveliness inherent there;
and it sings all the dark despair
of its unworthiness, in a frenzy of wings;
and its desolate womb holds incurled in silk
the husks of dread kings and pale lovers.