Diana van den Berg Poems

Once I walked
my midnight forest
wrapped in awe
of delicious solitude
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No, that wasn’t enough for you.
Your beautiful soul had to go
the mile beyond the mile
beyond the mile.
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I want to write about this
now
in the dark
while it’s here
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Fusion thoughts,
three dogs who came to me
and my saying
there isn’t another you
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It was just a simple abode
- somewhere between a hut
and a house –
that photograph –
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Benson, with your shy smile
and your gentle ways
and your young hopes and dreams
that you left behind with us,
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As lonely as
a solitary black umbrella
shining with rain
on a dimlit night,
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In your latest spot on the corner of the bed,
chin upturned,
as though you know its effect
- for there is a smile on the face of the tiger -
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My fervent prayer is
that one day
the human race
will rise to the level of civilization
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I don’t like being unique any more – I think -
but I don’t want to be like everyone else.
I want everyone else to be like me.
Then maybe I would understand people
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