A Soddy Journal Memory, Summer, 1875

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Sunshine

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0 posted 2002-01-03 10:35 PM

A Soddy Journal Memory, Summer, 1875

He had been out
Walking his fields, planning
Next year’s crop, early,
Old Richard jutting
From his back pocket

When he went to the creek
He bent to one knee
Cupped his hands
Welled clear water
Drank its cool

Spied the rock

A largish piece, yellowed
Quartz, crystallized jagged edges
Two larger crystals
Overlapping one another
Bringing to his mind
The way her head
Crossed his chest
Late at night

He could see in the stone
Its promise, a beauty
That had not yet reached
The surface,
Akin to a fine woman
Not yet aged…

He was fey to far-reaching
Thought, his mind working
Towards December’s
Christmas gift

He gazed up their creek; saw
Where water gurgled
A faster flow, his thoughts running,
Toppling like dominoes ~
How he would
Improvise a tumbling
Barrel to smooth this,
And a few other choice
Stones

And knew, come Christmas,
His love’s eyes
Would glitter
Like the stone in his hand
As he lay his gift
Around her neck

A talisman of promise,
For that yet to come.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
3 January 2002

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1 posted 2002-01-03 10:38 PM

yeah those stones are awesome i used to love my stone polisher!! A splendid piece of writing you have here, sounds like a considerate man.

Love is God. Love is war. Love is what your life is for.

Logan
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2 posted 2002-01-03 10:39 PM

Now, THIS, is very very nice, Sissie, I can just imagine how he felt the way you weave your story here..very well done...very gentle smile

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In the space between moments

3 posted 2002-01-03 10:39 PM

What a beautiful tale, Sunshine...only someone deeply in love would do such a thing, I think...thank you for sharing, I loved it.

*Krista Knutson*

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." -Gandhi

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A State of Disarray

4 posted 2002-01-03 10:41 PM

A very delicate and beautiful write. I liked it much!!

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Canada eh.

5 posted 2002-01-03 11:15 PM

Karilea....each one of these stories is just so unique and precious.
All are keepers, and I love them.
~Hugs, Nancy~

~* A dream is a wish your heart makes... *~

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Tamarac Fla

6 posted 2002-01-03 11:26 PM

Your still shining.

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with you

7 posted 2002-01-04 09:42 AM

this is one of your best yet!! I can see the twinkle in his eyes....love this!!!

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8 posted 2002-01-04 09:59 AM

you take me there....and I will follow--most willingly....Im in very good company

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9 posted 2002-01-05 01:12 AM

You know how they used to sit under a tree in the olden days while someone read a story to a group? Well that is what I am feeling here, and I am loving it, yes indeedydo!

~*~ Carpe' Diem ~*~

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