Artistic Tribute 1

Every week from now on, I'm going to make it a habit to post a tribute (along with a work or two) of something artistically great and the people that have done it. Litterature, Art, sculpting, architecture, music... any type of art. Just so people can know what I think is pretty.

Let me clarify though what is art... it is someting beautiful, that has stood the test of time, and that drives me. Good Charolette is not art, comic books and Tom Clancy is not art...

Anyways yes, here is the first runner up: Sylvia Plath... god I love Sylvia Plath

Mad Girl's Love Song

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"