alone in a garden
I walk as a stranger in the garden of my home
shadows of a past telling me I am justly alone
red roses turn their pedal cheeks from me
ashamed to look upon the wicked man they see
lonely are these moments drawn from a past
foretold perhaps when fatally the die was cast
alone in the garden of my home, now a ghost
wishing for what I wish and want the most.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.
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| an unpaired sock | 0 | 01/22/2012 |
| This Time (a kyrielle) | 0 | 01/22/2012 |
| Moment | 1 | 01/19/2012 |
| A path less painful | 1 | 01/12/2012 |
| A Comedy of Couplets | 1 | 01/12/2012 |
| Mutilations | 0 | 12/31/2011 |
| a story book | 0 | 12/30/2011 |
| wink | 0 | 12/05/2011 |
| Veteran’s Day | 0 | 11/25/2011 |
| wink | 0 | 11/18/2011 |
| emptiness | 0 | 11/07/2011 |
| Beyond the dawn | 1 | 10/08/2011 |
| in a moment | 0 | 10/08/2011 |
| faith | 0 | 08/13/2011 |
| Shiloh | 0 | 08/13/2011 |
| Potential | 0 | 08/12/2011 |
| potential | 0 | 08/12/2011 |
| Confusion | 0 | 07/29/2011 |
| I’d Rather | 0 | 08/20/2010 |
| Dawn or Dusk? | 1 | 08/10/2010 |
| In you | 0 | 06/26/2010 |
| alone in a garden | 0 | 12/03/2009 |
| I have loved | 1 | 11/29/2009 |
| If we would see... | 0 | 11/29/2009 |
| Hunter's Moon | 0 | 11/29/2009 |
| De la Mancha | 0 | 08/29/2009 |
| Anadromous Politickles | 0 | 08/24/2009 |
| Red Sonja (Rondel) | 0 | 08/14/2009 |
| Without tomorrow | 0 | 08/07/2009 |
| If we would see... | 1 | 08/06/2009 |
| Ape House | 1 | 07/30/2009 |
| Remember Me | 1 | 07/30/2009 |
| a story book | 1 | 07/28/2009 |
| A promised verse | 2 | 07/23/2009 |
| gratitude | 0 | 07/16/2009 |
| Gallows Tree | 0 | 07/13/2009 |
| emptiness | 0 | 07/09/2009 |
| A path less painful | 1 | 07/04/2009 |
| Couplet | 0 | 07/04/2009 |
| Does it care? | 0 | 07/02/2009 |
| faith | 0 | 07/01/2009 |
| Dreamer | 1 | 06/30/2009 |
| At Dawn | 0 | 06/21/2009 |
| It speaks… | 2 | 06/17/2009 |
| Just Me | 1 | 06/13/2009 |
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