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Ian Llewellyn ap-Griffith
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0 posted 2001-01-02 02:41 PM


In My Garden


In my garden angels stand in carven stone
Obelisks and pyramids surround me on the garden paths
I smell the scent of new-mown grass
And in my garden I walk alone

I walk between the wind-swept towering trees
Alone and always lonely in this garden of despair
I brush aside an errant hair
Blown by the midnight’s dying breeze

The moon casts shadows on the cobbled stone
Nightmare shapes assail me from the whisp’ring dark
They bite but never leave a mark
Here within my garden all alone

In my garden I was once a noble king
With my loving subjects lying star-scattered on the lawn
They’d play for me until the dawn
And hymns to me they’d sweetly sing

I see the place where once her love was known
Where wine was spilled upon the grass and promises exchanged
The landscape has been rearranged
In my garden where I walk alone

The garden gate has been rusted shut with tears
Though no one comes to walk within this garden by my side
Yet still I play the troubled guide
Here within these walls so many years

Within my garden where angels stand in stone
Where midnights pass without the comfort of a loving smile
I stand, rememb’ring love awhile
And in my garden I walk alone



Sing while you may
-The Prophet Qa'sepel

Your pain is for you alone, As it is, As it was, As it will be forever, Amen
-The Prophet Qa'sepel

© Copyright 2001 Darren Lausa - All Rights Reserved
brian madden
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since 2000-05-06
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ireland
1 posted 2001-01-02 02:48 PM


Gardens can be such a mazing places, like worlds on to their selves. an excellent piece, very well written loved the powerful images.

It's in your eyes a fire that's wild and glorious
Unhibited, unfinished in everything I do Let the morning rise like our hearts desire" whipping boy

BitterSmoke
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since 2001-01-02
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2 posted 2001-01-02 10:27 PM


Perhaps the loss of power is what I miss most of all.
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