I think for my next nude or almost nude poetry reading, I'm ..
🕑 Added 2022-08-20 21:10:55 +0000 UTC
I think for my next nude or almost nude poetry reading, I'm going to go with one of my long time favorites - 'Israfel' by Edgar Allan Poe.
The last two verses always tear my heart:
"Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely—flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.
If I could dwell
Where Israfel
Hath dwelt, and he where I,
He might not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody,
While a bolder note than this might swell
From my lyre within the sky."