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desert flower |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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 desert flower patient in her crux of rock she passes her self on mother into daughter seed into seed gone in days she lives forever I disappear so quickly |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed The desert flower can cause you to write a poem that lives on, but she cannot write a poem....she is a poem! Lovely, photo and poem. I need to get out to see the wildflowers while I still can. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
"she passes her self on mother into daughter seed into seed" Great lines m'friend, a beautiful write. where ya bin? Mxx and i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Oh, I've been out  trying desperately to find  some flowers  ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Seems as though you succeeded!  |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I saw on the news the other day where the desert was abloom... like never before... and Death Valley held fragile life abundantly... and in glorious color... and that even the long-timers hadn't seen so much of the desert's hidden gifts, ever... such is the stuff of miracles. Like this poem. |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Just back from the desert myself...and this brought me right back once again. Eric |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Ed, you found them...and you gave away something to us....a tender soul... |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
OhEd~ What beauties you found to share~ Breathtakingly beautiful~ Wish I was there ... right NOW !!! Thank you for these ... so happy to see you photographing such richness~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
This is the moment to go out there, eh, Eric? If you only drive by, the flowers are astounding....and when you get out and walk among them....then look down to see flowers you would never have seen from a distance.... ....even flowers the size of this: * in a dozen colors, rising on tiny stalks perhaps an inch out of the grit that passes for soil out there, beside waist-high yellow displays, and ten-foot ocotillo lancing the sky with their red flags.....it is good, and more than good. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
You may disappear quickly from the desert, my friend... but you have a forever home in the hearts of all who know you. *S* You're truly an artist... your poems are always the epitome of excellence... but these pictures show your talent has many outlets. This is incredibly lovely! And your words... how perfectly you've captured the wait... dormant through years and even decades... for this moment of life, this explosion of beauty... this capturing the moment given before another wait begins. |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
this is just so beautiful Ed, thank you for sharing this! |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
NIce...James |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
God, I can't tell you how invigorating your words touch, and the pictures...amazing...gloriously happy sounding colors...what beauty! Thank you for sharing, now please go take some more... |
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EvocativeVerse2 Senior Member
since 2003-09-10
Posts 1279 |
I absolutely adore this. Man I needed to see color again. I am so sick of winter. Looks like I did not move far enough South when I came here from Canada. ROFLMAO! |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
It lifts me to see replies like these, it truly does. To write a poem and know it reached somebody....guess I don't have to tell any of you folks how good that feels, to I! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
Beautiful read,the pictures are just as beautiful. I must agree with EV2 on seeing colors instead of a blanket of white. Thank-you Ratleader for sharing such a beautiful read,pictures both. Happy Easter :-) |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I think the only flowers that I could find around here are in someone else's yard but this write of yours makes me want to go searching |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Omg, but this makes me ache to go see the desert in bloom! I always visited the desert wildflowers each spring in California, seeking those vibrant beauties which bloom just once. Thanks for the photo visit, Ed. |
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majnu
since 2002-10-13
Posts 1088SF Bay Area |
simple, like what you describe. i like the formatting, its almost like a cactus, or maybe just a stem climbing up. -majnu |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
YESSS!!!! Majnu wins the washer and dryer! I was doing exactly that, copying (or trying to) the gangly shapes of those flowers, hoping it would help give a better feel of the place -- it's a way of writing that I use sometimes when the subject is thin but intense....I hang the words one at a time, like little mirrors on a mobile....I call it "dangling words" for want of a better name...... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ |
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Bridget Shenachie Senior Member
since 2002-01-23
Posts 1056Kansas USA |
Thank you for showing us the desert as it looks now. I've been away from it too long and love the memories of the desert in bloom. This was just beautiful, Ed. Shenachie |
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