Complaint Of A Poet Manqu

A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

We judge by appearance merely:

If I can’t think strangely, I can at least look queerly.

So I grew the hair so long on my head

That my mother wouldn’t know me,

Till a woman in a night-club said,

As I was passing by,

“Hullo, here comes Salome …”

I looked in the dirty gilt-edged glass,

And, oh Salome; there I was–

Positively jewelled, half a vampire,

With the soul in my eyes hanging dizzily

Like the gatherer of proverbial samphire

Over the brink of the crag of sense,

Looking down from perilous eminence

Into a gulf of windy night.

And there’s straw in my tempestuous hair,

And I’m not a poet: but never despair!

I’ll madly live the poems I shall never write.

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• Without You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• Wild Soul by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• Why Me? by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• Why Do All Good Things Come To An End? by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• Urban Caterpillar by Minal Sarosh by Poetry In English
• Umbrella by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
• There Can Never Be Another You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• Their Reposessions by Michael P Amram by Poetry In English
• The Wild Goose’s Will by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
• The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• The Natural History of Elephants by Milton Acorn by Poetry In English
• The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas by Poetry In English
• The Lonely Climber: A Seed Poem by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• The King by Michael Yuan by Poetry In English
• The Island by Milton Acorn by Poetry In English
• The Fraser River by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English

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