Page 15 - stages of unrequited Love: poetic dissertation

1. disclosure

1.4. insular

the mind like wind was passing by
from every white-built island

the sea made rippling airily, and every dress there fragrant

then rested on some coastal rocks, before a wave’s washing

off to the Waning Moon’s dark side

to search if there She was in

to trace each hill and valley, one after the other

which crater did She gaze upon? –not this, neither another

because she had a stooping gait in narrow streets of shame

and neither did the paving reflect new Moons that came

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