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A Song of the Seasons
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A Song of the Seasons |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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A SONG OF THE SEASONS 19 October 2011 He and she touch and sing and talk and walk and dance and dream and plan and meet in mind-meanderings and souvenirs of had-to-be-there words gift-wrapped in sungold paper and happy ribbons sweet-chosen and understood from yesterdays lost in the mist and tomorrows longing to be found and today’s songs of many yesterdays and laughter and whispers and fingertip promises and smoke-signal conversations that wisp into the hungry air drawn across oceans faster and surer than homing pigeons back and forth and forth and back never a word lost in meaninglessness nor blown away in the wind nor drowned in the oceans nor speared on mountain tops. He and she secluded in their paradise of words nurture a breathing language that everyone else misunderstands a paradise of further apart than bears and hippos and closer than leaf and stem. The angry moon tears their fervent tides apart and relenting rushes them together again and again and again lost and found found and lost fear and longing forlorn and bliss-kissed sunlight and shadow dusk and dawn droughts and floods they are the cycle of the seasons the leopard and its spots the lion and the gazelle the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end spinning spinning spinning . . . They do not understand why it has to be them, just that it does. Owl |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
love those 'whispers and fingertip promises' 'wisp(ing) into the hungry air' ... fine 'write' ! |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Bruce. Smiles. Owl |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
This is beautiful, Diana. I love romantic writing that is deep but has an elegance to it. This is it. Ida |
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