Genius and Madness
Thin line of perception between genius and mania
Monsters in misunderstood minds
More fearsome than Transylvania's elite
Rebellious Van Gogh’s indignation
Self portrait of passion wedded with lunacy
Artist’s perplexing break from reality
Edgar Allen Poe's addicted brain
Dark-natured creator of horror, suspense
Played mind games unprepared to lose
Suicidal tendencies' unfortunate genes
From grandfather Ernest to Margaux Hemingway
Key West writer plagued by instability
Jim Morrison rode on a storm to death
Drowned by drugs, setting sanity afire
Icon loved two times more when he left
Revered, young president’s enigmatic mistress
Irony in her last film “The Misfits”
Marilyn remembered most as a temptress
Creativity's oft' inevitable fee
Extraordinary spirits pass untimely through heaven's gate
Covet such genius? Think twice
Copyright © Carolyn Devonshire | Year Posted 2009
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