code: IH5 - Wedding by Ggarrett
Loves, lives, pleasures, and disappointments.
56 pages (Booklet)
Samples of poetry -
There Was a Wedding
Alice
There Was a Wedding
There was a wedding done today
Between our friend, our Digory
And Caroline, his bride.
We went because we own his soul,
He doesn’t seem to know it now,
But still, we own his soul.
And she was part of life
For us,
We did not love her near so much
And cannot comprehend
Why he should
Hitch himself to her,
But still we went,
And sat about on golden chairs
And sniffed the air
On which the lilliness did float.
© Ggarrett 2004
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Alice
I move around the hall,
My hands press here and here,
And fingertips trace panels
Up and down the oaken wall.
I find
No give, no spring,
No bright escutcheon.
No way out at all
It seems.
No,
Doors may well exist in dreams,
But not in here, not now,
Cannot be conjured up,
No how.
Oh, God,
I’ve tested ev’ry inch of wall
A dozen times or more,
And I conclude I am not Alice
As for me there is no door.
I might as well just sit and cry,
Forget the once-loved varied colours
Of the morn or even sky,
Aye,
Just sit and sob and fan my face
And maybe,
Maybe, maybe,
In a year or so
Begin
To grow accustomed to this
Purgatorial place.
© Ggarrett 2004
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