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The Gardener of Eden

James Broughton, James Broughton poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Beat poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry,  poetry by James Broughton
(1913 - 1999) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic : Beat
20th Century

I am the old dreamer who never sleeps
I am timekeeper of the timeless dance
I preserve the long rhythms of the earth
and fertilize the rounds of desire

In my evergreen arboretum
I raise flowering hopes for the world
I plant seeds of perennial affection
and wait for their passionate bloom

Would you welcome that sight if you saw it?
Revalue the view you have lost?
Could you wake to the innocent morning
and follow the risks of your heart?

Every day I grow a dream in my garden
where the beds are laid out for love
When will you come to embrace it
and join in the joy of the dance?

 

 

-- from Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996, by James Broughton

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Themes

  Awakening
  Bliss
  Dawn
  Garden
  Heart


Recommended Books


All: A James Broughton Reader, by James Broughton
The Films of James Broughton: DVD, by James Broughton
Little Sermons of the Big Joy: Poems, by James Broughton
Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996, by James Broughton

 

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