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This is an extract from the "Journey through Yellow Wallpaper World" about an area called 'Green Poem'.
"We travel now to a higher level. This is a very special place, ‘Green Poem’. There is no laughter in this place, but smiling is permitted. If lovers were to walk together this would be where it would happen. But, I doubt that they would talk, they would just ‘be’ in each other’s presence. This place is also for solitary walking or sitting, or standing. Sometimes people come here to be neutral or perhaps sad, but not wailing, this is an almost silent place. You can hear the wind through the fir tree and this in itself is a seriously intense experience, because this is the only sound and by the time you reach this part of the ‘Green Poem’ it is overwhelming. The grass is moist from dew, but when you walk through it you leave no trace. The ‘Green Poem’ is called this because to be there is like the feeling you get when you read a poem, words are more than just their meaning, and their sound. It is called ‘Green Poem’ because it is predominantly green and it is place of contemplation and reflection. It isn’t as aggressive and serious as blue, but still serious but also has joy there too. The ‘Green Poem’ does not contain all the poems that ever existed, and is not a place for poems to be read. If it was a poem, which it sort of is, it would the feeling of a poem but without any words, or sound apart from the sound of the wind blowing through the fir tree, an almost empty poem. Not a blank page because that is also something different. There are shadows in ‘Green Poem’ but they are different to the rest of ‘Yellow Wallpaper World’. You can see the both the suns quite clearly from ‘Green Poem’ but to look at them is not the purpose of being there, you may look at how the sun lights the ‘Green Poem’ but it is not a viewing platform it is a full stop in its self, not a path. There was once a pagoda in the ‘Green Poem’ but it was deemed unnecessary so was moved to a lower level. "
