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tryst

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I Am

I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost;
And yet I am! and live with shadows tost

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life nor joys,
But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems;
And e'en the dearest--that I loved the best--
Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smil'd or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept:
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below--above the vaulted sky.

John Clare

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Much Appreciated Recognition:
GOLD:
1) Shattered Wells (a puzzle poem) - allpoetry.com/Poem/1834704
2) Love Isn't Proud - allpoetry.com/Poem/1842178
3) i tried to leave you - allpoetry.com/Poem/1844300
4) vital (short story)
5) Finding My Way Home - allpoetry.com/Poem/1889881
6) August tides - allpoetry.com/Poem/1967884
7) Ocean's Need - allpoetry.com/Poem/1818681
8) Lullaby - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3960311

SILVER:
1) Part of the Whole - allpoetry.com/Poem/1885323
2) Search - http://allpoetry.com/poem/1917835
3) dormant - allpoetry.com/Poem/1992893
4) Blow - allpoetry.com/Poem/2162820
5) Vertigo - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3938365

BRONZE:
1) Yawn!! - allpoetry.com/Poem/1824616
2) I Got a Tree - allpoetry.com/Poem/1843810
3) Beauty's Poor Verse - allpoetry.com/Poem/1843691
4) hear the wind blow - allpoetry.com/Poem/1898125
5) the bath - allpoetry.com/Poem/1963116

HONOURABLE MENTION:
1) Tango - allpoetry.com/Poem/1862344
2) i dance in Your dreams - allpoetry.com/Poem/1830237
3) The End - allpoetry.com/Poem/1933381
4) Pregnant Lips - allpoetry.com/Poem/1910517
5) Breathes There the Sandwich - allpoetry.com/Poem/1874802
6) Pink Pill - allpoetry.com/Poem/1948590
7) Awakenings - allpoetry.com/Poem/1947882
8) Exposed - allpoetry.com/Poem/1966942
9) Long Night at Shore - allpoetry.com/Poem/2026475
10) Crimson - http://allpoetry.com/poem/3980365
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