The calm existence that is mine when I Am worthy of myself!

Edouard Vuillard

I am afraid

because of the foolishness

I have spoken.

I must diet

on silence;

strengthen myself

with quiet.

Where is the wisdom   

with which I may be medicined?

I will walk by myself

and cure myself

in the sunshine and the wind.

Jean Hugo



The path was hidden

under the fallen leaves; and here and there

the stream was choked. Where it forced a way

the ripples flashed a second.

She spoke unkindly but it was the truth:

I shared the sunshine like a leaf, a ripple;

thinking of this, sunned myself

and, for the moment, was content.






Lucy Grossmith




dearchaterina








Nastia Sleptsova


Alberto Morrocco

I like the sound of the street—

but I, apart and alone,

beside an open window

and behind a closed door.

Matthew Sharack








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title - William Wordsworth
all lines from a poem 'Autobiography: New York'
BY CHARLES REZNIKOFF