The hills step off into whiteness.
People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.The train leaves a line of breath.
O slow
Horse the colour of rust,Hooves, dolorous bells -
All morning the
Morning has been blackening,A flower left out.
My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.They threaten
To let me through to a heaven
Starless and fatherless, a dark water.
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Sylvia Plath Poetry
PoesiaSylvia Plath Poetry is a book filled with the content of Sylvia Plath's poems. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Plath's work often was singled out for the intense coupling of its violent or disturbed imagery and...