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Kansas Sight |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Kansas Sight To stand and gaze at prairie just below your feet, you feel the earth respire under you a moving viable shift of life. Close your eyes, and lift your head then open lids to cerulean sky and white clouds that build over you in silence so white, So White! Snow White blinding and blink your irises so much so the blue becomes a sapphire jewel. Close your eyes and pull your face to face the horizon and somehow, someway, the distance seems more remote and you seem more isolated, as a reachable horizon seems farther than the sky. At first there were no windbreaks except for what grew along streams and then, only scrub brush and prairie roses gave scent to the zephyrs, and grasses were seven feet tall where horses could hide; then trees became a land-line for mine-line and fenced in eyesight and made the wind easier to hear. I haven’t found it yet that bit of say from someone from before, that one feels at first insignificant then magnificent by the mere grace of standing within such grandeur and I still have not yet given you Kansas Sight. ~*~ ©Karilea Rilling Jungel 1 May 2002 |
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Chalmette Guy Senior Member
since 2009-03-11
Posts 1257Louisiana |
The Kansas Tourism Commission should give you a job K. This poem should make any person long to visit this place. |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
boy ms sun..toto will be p-o'd when he finds out calif was not kansas..enjoyed you lady |
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Eusta B. Mae Senior Member
since 2010-05-03
Posts 903 |
Sunshine- You make me proud to be from the land of ahhhhs! ebm |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Sure wish I could blow with the tall grass and watch the sky with you, Sissie. Know that I am from my spot on this earth. |
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Lamar Cole Member
since 2009-05-01
Posts 274 |
Very Nice. |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
a wonderful poem, an artful painting of Kansas and a poetic mood all along...Great work... thanks yann |
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whisperingwalt Member
since 2010-04-29
Posts 240Coquitlam, BC, Canada |
Wonderful imagery...You started the tour with your first word and we boarded with you....the read was magical...you truly captured the essence of the moment.ww |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
Kansas brought sharply alive by your words of wonder and is obviously a place you love, it speaks to us readers with devotion...thank you for showing us the view i enjoyed the sight... Goldenrose. Friendship is Love without his wings. Lord Byron. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Wonderful, could experience your sight, dear Karilea! Love, Margherita |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
Beautifully done...would love to see Kansas, however, I'll just have to see it thru your eyes..what wonders...loverly missy...thank you |
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threadbear Senior Member
since 2008-07-10
Posts 817Indy |
it takes a word painter to see the story behind the sometimes still world of Nature, Compliments to the Master Sunshine! Jeff |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Ah, Sunshine...you have painted a beautiful portrait of my childhood. Mine was in Missouri but a rose by any other name...it's all part of God's country, after all.  |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I've never been to Kansas, Karilea, but this poem makes me want to visit. Ida |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
You described it just as I remember it LOVEd THE VASTNESS AND THE CERULEAN BLUE SKIES! MISCE' |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Wow...what wonderful responses. Perhaps I have given you a glimpse of this little spot... I have walked in the grasses looming high over my head...and have heard the barbed wire sing. Come, visit again.   |
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Bastet Member
since 2010-05-07
Posts 246 |
Again a wonderful painting in words. It's a real treat to read your poetry. You are very gifted and I appreciate your sharing your gifts with me and others. Thank you. |
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