Monday, January 13, 2003

A Garden In Chicago Comments

Rating: 3.1

In the mid-city, under an oiled sky,
I lay in a garden of such dusky green
It seemed the dregs of the imagination.
Hedged round by elegant spears of iron fence
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Karl Shapiro
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Kumarmani Mahakul 23 May 2020

In the mid-city, under an oiled sky, the dusky green perception was wonderfully witnessed. A gutter of poetry flowed outside the yard when the poet was deeply motivated. The garden still existed in memory. A Garden In Chicago has greatly inspired the poet. This is an amazing poem..

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Konab Ghumman 16 April 2019

cool and beautifully penned it here hung the fatted souls of animals, Wile at my eyes bright dots of butterflies Turned off and on like distant neon signs.

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Buck Mulligan 05 December 2009

Shapiro is a genius... (There is a typo in the fifth line of the second stanza - should be 'while' not 'wile' - I don't know how to fix it)

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Mauta Peter 27 March 2009

excelent marrying of nolstagia for the country cool and beauty of solitude in a chaotic city environment.

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