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spelunk spelunk spelunk (another cavewoman write) |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia 
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Spelunk! Spelunk! Spelunk! Falling drops of lime, suspended moments in time. The cave climber's twilight zone beckons you to enter the crystal chasm below, where spelunkers dangle from friendly threads and crawl on their knees 'round majestic columns massive as giant Sequoia trees, and shiny soda straws are swallowed by Mother Earth's cavernous mouth, while jazz curls itself capriciously through deep canyons and painted galleries. Listen to an opus of Nature. The sounds of a saxaphone suddenly echo point to counterpoint, blending harmonically, sensuously, as dancing lovers entwine beneath surface sinkholes that camouflage hidden treasures, filled with young vertical shafts cutting through moist passages of calcite speleothems; a whirlwind melody of enveloping stalagmite reeds, notes dropping serendipitously from crystalline stalactites. Spelunk! spelunk! spelunk! Bridging the ethereal tunes of nature surrealistically with sensual sax sounds, a jazz fusion caresses you alongside licks of lime, mingling Aeolian chamber music with jazz sublime, and beckoning you to enter these chambers divine. * another cave rewrite, just me imagining what it would sound like if a spelunker friend of mine who plays the sax ever played within the caves Note:The opening of a cave is affectionately called the twilight zone by spelunkers, whose first love just may be exploring the secrets of caves. It is not a reference to Rod Serling's old Twilight Zone show. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
 Hope you don't mind, Kacy, but don't you know that I have a photo of such spelunkings... one or two, or more, in fact!  Enjoyed the poem, and of course, you allowed for some good reminisce!  |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
wow, that's an unusual one, Karilea those in front really look like giant fingernails....kinda spooky! |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
"Fingernail alley"....they are spectacular, aren't they? I'll go with you someday.... Just to see the marvelous! |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
where is that cavern? |
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