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Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

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Texas, USA

0 posted 2003-11-30 06:48 PM

Salt Cedar

I’ve known the love
that blooms in Spring,
when a new-warm sun rides high.

I’ve known the love
that lasts a day,
but withers in a night.

I want a salt-cedar love.
It grows slow, but shoves down roots
that will not die.

Its bark is rough and knotted,
with leaves
both sharp and dry.

It bends to the wind,
but never breaks,
though it may twist awry.

Desert gods, if such there are,
and you can
hear my old worn sigh,

give me
a salt-cedar love,
a love that wants to try.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

[This message has been edited by Pilgrimage (11-30-2003 07:40 PM).]

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2003-11-30 07:08 PM

Nan~
A double-dose for me, please~

I just love this~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
noles1@totcon.com

ThisDiamond
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since 2002-02-22

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Michigan, USA

2 posted 2003-11-30 07:24 PM

This piece, will replay in my mind forever.
Nice write.
TD

Pilgrimage
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Texas, USA

3 posted 2003-11-30 07:40 PM

Marge and TD-thanks!

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 2003-12-01 09:59 AM

a love that wants to try.

Yes... *S* I like this very much! *S*

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

5 posted 2003-12-01 11:16 AM

Thanks, suthern. I appreciate it.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

6 posted 2003-12-01 12:09 PM

Pilgrimage,
   I very much enjoyed your write, especially:
     I want a salt-cedar love.
     It grows slow, but shoves down roots
     that will not die.

     Its bark is rough and knotted,
     with leaves
     both sharp and dry.

     It bends to the wind,
     but never breaks,
     though it may twist awry.
                                        Sadelite

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

7 posted 2003-12-01 01:32 PM

A creative and enjoyable write!

Will salt cedars grow in Ontario? lol

~ May you find salt cedar love before next spring!

Warm hugs & smiles,
EA

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

8 posted 2003-12-01 03:16 PM

Sadelite, thanks!

EA- Salt Cedar generally grows where there's nothing to make anything want to grow, so no, it won't grow in Ontario where there's good weather and water and stuff.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

titch k
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since 2003-11-25

Posts 123

9 posted 2003-12-01 03:54 PM

hi pilgrimage
i simply adore this verse
the imagery, the elequentness is outstanding ....
i shall watch to read you..
thankyou
love Titch

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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10 posted 2003-12-02 02:29 PM

I like this, both the idea and the way you carry it out....maybe because we think in a little bit of the same way about the subject.... reminds me of this one of mine: /pip/Forum79/HTML/001905.html

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Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

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Portland, Oregon

11 posted 2003-12-02 04:16 PM

(smiles) Yay! Oh Nancy, I wish for a strong and pure love to forever fill your heart and bring great fruit to your soil, sweet friend, God Bless You, I love the novel imagery here, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Nancy, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

Martie

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California

12 posted 2003-12-02 07:33 PM

This is lovely and the thought of love that is strong, enduring.

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

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my own state

13 posted 2003-12-03 12:20 PM

for a love that digs deep in earnest, bends in the conflicting breezes and resists breakage...this one was enjoyed

passing shadows
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displaced

14 posted 2003-12-03 02:31 AM

nice ending line

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

15 posted 2003-12-03 09:49 AM

Titch-how very kind of you. I don't post often, I don't often have time to come here, but I'll look out for your poetry too.

Ed,

I love your poem. I'm probably not meant for the nutwoods, just the nuts.

Noah, it's good to hear from you, you always have something kind to say.

Martie, thank you.

Martin, I'm so glad you liked it.

passing shadows, I'm happy you like the last line, it came to me without any work on it, unlike the rest of the poem.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

martiniat8
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since 2003-06-21

Posts 897
Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic

16 posted 2003-12-10 02:27 PM

Nan, aka Pilgrimage
I think I may know you, will you do me a favor and shoot me an email?

Id email ya here but you dont have one listed.

Thanks,
M@8

Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

Posts 5622
Ala bam a

17 posted 2003-12-10 03:49 PM

I like this...interestingly done

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

18 posted 2003-12-10 05:46 PM

Thanks, Toe.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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