Love Poem: The Ecstasy and Agony of Human Nature
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Written by: Susan Ashley

The Ecstasy and Agony of Human Nature

Star-dusted peaks you seek on love's golden moonbeam bliss,
Feeling the rapture of whipped-cream desire in a whir;
Human experience wrapped in euphoria's kiss,
The ecstasy and agony of human nature...

Throes of living with woes, lost love's pathos reminisce,
Soul-groaning, heart-moaning; unwanted guests' bereft slur;
Wallowing human exist falls in nightmare's abyss,
The ecstasy and agony of human nature.


Susan Ashley
October 13, 2017

*Painting by Paul Lovering - 'Agony And Ecstasy'*


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Premiere Contest #105
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