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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2002-05-01 09:23 PM

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

Duncan
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since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

1 posted 2002-05-01 09:32 PM

and I still have not yet given you
Kansas Sight.

Maybe not but you're coming very close. I live in the city and love your Kansas views...spec today.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2002-05-01 09:34 PM

Karilea

I love seeing it trough your eyes. Thank you!

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

3 posted 2002-05-01 09:36 PM

I think one Kansas sight just wrote a beautiful poem....thank you for the panoramic viewpoint

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

4 posted 2002-05-01 09:46 PM

You make me feel as though I have stood
there.... such a peaceful and tranquil
poem KJ...very enjoyable..

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

5 posted 2002-05-01 10:02 PM

Karilea, I could have been standing right beside you as you looked on.....
Fantastic imagery my friend.
~Hugs~

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

6 posted 2002-05-01 10:43 PM

Karilea~

this is most beautiful, and I so loved the way you have presented this....you make it stand out....

HUGSSS
Lauren~

~Sinking fast into
an ocean of you,
what if I told you,
what if I said
that I love you
do we dare cross
that line between your
heart and mine~

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

7 posted 2002-05-01 10:54 PM

And for once in that vision of beauty, I was quiet. I felt I was there with you in this.

Imagination is more important that knowledge
~* Einstein *~

Bridget Shenachie
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since 2002-01-23

Posts 1056
Kansas USA

8 posted 2002-05-02 03:12 AM

Thanks to the California Greenhorn
For opening the eyes of the Kansas Born!
A fresh look through fresh eyes,
A new look at blue skies,
To inspire the jaded inkhorn.

Thanks Karilea!

Shenachie

[This message has been edited by Bridget Shenachie (05-02-2002 03:17 AM).]

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

9 posted 2002-05-02 07:30 AM

seems kansas
is quite the place
now that is,
after the tour

enjoyed it ms

Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

10 posted 2002-05-02 08:00 AM

Exquisite writing
You brought me in close to the remote
Superb!
Liz

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

11 posted 2002-05-02 08:39 AM

(smiles) Oh Karilea, this is absoluely beautiful, I have passed through and visited Kansas almost every summer, on the way to see my grandparents, we spend the night sometimes in Hays or Salina, the view of sunflowers and windmills and tall grasses is amazing! (big huggsssssss) This is absolutely enchanting, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

SEA

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with you

12 posted 2002-05-02 09:13 AM

"then trees became a land-line for mine-line
and fenced in eyesight
and made the wind easier to hear."

LOVED these lines
and now I want to see for my self

bsquirrel

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since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

13 posted 2002-05-02 02:22 PM

I can't imagine better instructions for enjoying the day.

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

14 posted 2002-05-02 02:50 PM

and grasses were seven feet tall
where horses could hide;

Oh, please Sunshine....take me to this place...how glorious!! Chris

Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away.

Interloper

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since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

15 posted 2002-05-03 12:55 PM

Beautiful write.
When the prairie moves do you get dizzy

EternitysHorizon
Member

since 2002-05-03

Posts 145
Twilight's Orchestra

16 posted 2002-05-03 04:40 PM

Oh Toto
I do believe
we are
Home again

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

17 posted 2002-05-03 05:52 PM

Wow you sure captured the scene and mood in this one Karilea! Very very nicely done!!

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