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    A Realm of Extremes (A Poem About Manic-Depressive Illness)

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    This poem describes the experience of manic-depressive illness through extremes of passion and darkness. It depicts the speaker feeling intensely inspired and driven by passion before being struck by a tempest that transforms their world into a dark dungeon. The poem ends with another spectrum of light penetrating, but this time it is ashen and gray, with endless quiet reverberating until glimpses of hope someday return.

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    This poem describes the experience of manic-depressive illness through extremes of passion and darkness. It depicts the speaker feeling intensely inspired and driven by passion before being struck by a tempest that transforms their world into a dark dungeon. The poem ends with another spectrum of light penetrating, but this time it is ashen and gray, with endless quiet reverberating until glimpses of hope someday return.

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    This poem describes the experience of manic-depressive illness through extremes of passion and darkness. It depicts the speaker feeling intensely inspired and driven by passion before being struck by a tempest that transforms their world into a dark dungeon. The poem ends with another spectrum of light penetrating, but this time it is ashen and gray, with endless quiet reverberating until glimpses of hope someday return.

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    A Realm of Extremes (A Poem About Manic-Depressive Illness)

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    This poem describes the experience of manic-depressive illness through extremes of passion and darkness. It depicts the speaker feeling intensely inspired and driven by passion before being struck by a tempest that transforms their world into a dark dungeon. The poem ends with another spectrum of light penetrating, but this time it is ashen and gray, with endless quiet reverberating until glimpses of hope someday return.

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    A Realm of Extremes

    [A poem about Manic-Depressive Illness]

    A spectrum of light penetrates--


    Galaxies as tantalizing as mine
    Enkindled, I am--with burning passion
    And an aching thirst in my eyes

    I, Hera, the fiercest flare of divinities


    Even saintlier than Dionysus’s wine
    Although Zeus seduced infidelities,
    I am paramount beauty and divine

    Fingers waltz on archaic ivories


    All of my ballades brilliantly resonate
    Classicals raise the hackles of my inner beast:
    Ravenous mortal, but enslaved by serenade

    My twofold universe gyrates lickety-split,


    Motherland’s in a plight of conflagration
    For time’s too swift to be sought—not even White Rabbit
    Can chase her from dusk ‘til dawn

    Then kabaaam! A tempest springs afore--


    A tumultuous lightning on the horizon,
    ‘Tis a destroyer of Dandelions to bloom nevermore
    In a wild meadow that transfigured to a dungeon
    A dilly-dally with Oizys beneath a Guava tree
    Causes leaflets to fall, wither and desiccate
    To the tune I no longer chant to thee--
    Like benumbed stroke of nerves dead and delicate

    Again a spectrum of light penetrates—


    This time an orbit of ashen and gray
    Endless chime of quietude reverberates,
    ‘Til the moonlight gleams on rivers someday

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