Turmoil - A Poem.

My fourth tribute is to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

I have chosen these prompts from his poems, to use in my verse:

Ceaseless turmoil

Caves of ice

Demon lover

(Poem: Kubla Khan)

Phantom Light

Smothering weight

Dallied with distress

Luminous mist

Smarting wounds

Bitter grief

(Poem: Dejection: An Ode)

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Inspiration in a volley

from Coleridge's Dejection;

Spill of melancholy
in poetic suffusion!

Turmoil.

In the phantom light of a luminous mist,

Bitter grief shalt hover,

A smothering weight on soul, doth exist

Resonant memories, beneath a moonlit bower;

Ceaseless turmoil, within cavernous caves of ice

in the heart, shalt ne’er recover;

Dallied with distress, ensnared in games of vice,

smarting wounds, left by a demon lover.

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