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Sep 2018
I would surely die
but for my dreaming
the blissful silence heals
I escape people's wild screaming-

I would verily live
for that beyond's beckoning
where beauty and love smiles
and makes my heart singing.
* after John Clare, Christina Rossetti, the Bronte sisters and Walter de la Mare.
Written by
Dr Peter Lim  M/Victoria, Australia
(M/Victoria, Australia)   
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