<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532955" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When Poetry Haunted Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sudden was the descent of poetry on me<br>I tottered under its weight<br>My body heated up like the sun<br>A frying egg yolk on the pan<br>My blood started burning…. burning<br>A strange madness crept across my senses<br>Intoxicated as by an excess dose of ale<br>Or drunk with the vintage wine<br>Or by some mystical disengagement<br>I started levitating<br>Wings sprouted up suddenly on my sides<br>I reeled round and round<br>Flew up and up<br>Meteors flashed past<br>Stars blinked<br>Larger celestial bodies stood still<br>Strange sounds fleeted past my ears<br>My heart palpitated, <br>Like the rumblings of thunder<br>My eyes glowed like fire balls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shout I heard afar<br>Over the heavens' mysterious rim, <br>Muffled though, I could decipher it; <br>'Welcome to the clan of poets'! <br>Around me, I saw multitudes of poets<br>Young and old, their faces blazing<br>Like a million lanterns lit<br>In that blinding brilliance<br>My filmy wings burnt outright! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like Icarus, from the heights<br>I flopped down to the chasm below<br>In the scattered heap of flesh and bones<br>A faint stir …..<br>…………………..<br>The feeble flutter of a poetic heart<br>Before it was finally stilled! !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Valsa+George">Valsa George</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532955" data-title="When Poetry Haunted Me de Valsa George" data-description="Sudden was the descent of poetry on me I tottered under its weight My body heated up like the sun A frying egg yolk on the pan My blood started burning…. burning A strange madness crept across my senses Intoxicated as by an excess dose of ale Or..."></div> </div> </div>

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