Night Palace Poem by Joanne Kyger

Night Palace

Rating: 3.4


'The best thing about the past

is that it's over'

when you die.

you wake up

from the dream

that's your life.


Then you grow up

and get to be post human

in a past that keeps happening

ahead of you



OCTOBER 2003

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dave Walker 10 January 2012

Really like this, a great poem. May i invite you to read my poem called, a Window Of Time 3.

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woooooow really woooow

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Marvin Brato 07 February 2013

Indeed, life is a dream for all of us!

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Gajanan Mishra 07 February 2013

That keeps happening a head of you. thanks. good write.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 08 January 2023

LIFE.....according to....Zen Buddhism...........Wonderful Dream. I understand this philosophy. Thank you for sharing this wonderful thought, Joanna!

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Ruta Mohapatra 19 February 2022

you wake up from the dream that's your life....hmmm

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Chinedu Dike 19 February 2022

An interesting piece of poetry written with conviction.....

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* Sunprincess * 27 May 2014

.......an interesting write....life is truly a dream.....

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Liliana ~el 07 February 2014

Interesting though not quite relatable

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