The Line

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I like poems to be completely open to interpretation so please please please make this out to mean whatever you think fits best. that being said I also like getting some background on poems after reading them. This piece came about as a result of some aprehension I was feeling about leaving for college this coming fall and moving all the way across the country from Oregon to North Carolina.

The Line

The Line

there's still a
line drawn in the
sand which reads once
you leave you can never
come home again not to
the same home nestled
in comfort. there's
still a line drawn
in the sand you
left it in the wet
to dry, to dry and
dare you to cross it
I crossed once in the
early summer only to find
the grass to be browner on
the other side. Now after
six years of trying to
return, I am packing
my bags to cross the
line again, to lose
another home and
hope to gain one
in the process
there is a
line drawn
in the
sand

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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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