<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365844" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scrawled Silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too often in this gaping land<br>I’ve wandered helpless, like some man<br>Whose art was squandered in the drought, <br>Bereft within, burnt dry without<br>Both parched and strangled, word and deed <br>Cast out from hope, embraced by need <br>Exiled from all that beauty saw <br>And lost to all I knew before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Small wonder, then, that nature’s call <br>Excites me less or not at all, <br>That harsh intrigues of leaflessness <br>And trees grotesque intrigue me less. <br>This brown and barren artistry <br>Calls forth some emptiness in me <br>To whisper all that sadness seems<br>And leave scrawled silence in sad dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7 September 1976</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365844" data-title="Scrawled Silence de David Lewis Paget" data-description="Too often in this gaping land I’ve wandered helpless, like some man Whose art was squandered in the drought, Bereft within, burnt dry without Both parched and strangled, word and deed Cast out from hope, embraced by need Exiled from all that ..."></div> </div> </div>

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