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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2007-04-15 06:55 PM

The Muse Taps

Nothing shared out loud, just thoughts
bouncing between gray matter.

Admired the last of winter’s snow
but souls cringed when temps dipped,
and 18 degrees bit the fledgling rose,

the burgeoning fruits,

even wheat fields lay down in
devastated supplication.

Farmers, having prayed for rain,
their fields now receiving moisture
from sources heavy skies didn’t provide.

Accounts reviewed, revised,
a farmer lays down his head
in distraught appeal.

Robins feed on fat worms,
a red-headed woodpecker
sings his new song.

A new morning’s hope begins,
revisions to plans and reprocess,
taking stock of stock,

Where new calves suckle at their mother’s teat,
away from water standing
in the fields,
as highway passersby wonder if
the drought is broken.

The limp roses await a careful hand.
Cattle will graze on the wheat fields before
the plow turns the loss.

The red-headed woodpecker
finds a new note,
and returns to a muse, tapping.

" It matters not this distance now " Excerpt, Yesterday's Love
~*~
KRJ

Martie

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1 posted 2007-04-15 07:04 PM

ahhh, sissie....the seasons and changes...through all, some things remain the same. I love your muse!

The Lady
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The Southwest

2 posted 2007-04-15 10:37 PM

earthy
real
and a lovely song Karilea

Earth Angel
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Realms of Light

3 posted 2007-04-16 08:31 AM

I could sense and see it all! Thank you!

Love & Sun Light,

Linda

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2007-04-16 08:51 AM

Karilea~
Love the metaphor of the redheaded woodpeckered muse tapping~
I thought it was on the endangered species list~

Way to go gal~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~
~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email - noles1@totcon.com

Kethry
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since 2000-07-29

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Victoria Australia

5 posted 2007-04-16 08:59 AM

Sometimes the weather just won't do what we want and all over the world it's looking strange - but there's nothing strange about this beautiful work.

a good commitee can decimate communication.

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

6 posted 2007-04-16 09:36 AM

Oh my Karilea..this sure fits the kind of weather we've been having.
Hope it warms up soon...and dries up a wee bit too.
Luv & hugs, Nancy

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart..
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul.

Andrew Sewell
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since 2007-04-16

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County Durham, England

7 posted 2007-04-16 11:28 AM

Beautiful writing Karilea.

Andrew

"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." - R.A. Heinlein.

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

8 posted 2007-04-16 11:33 AM

Sunshine
Love your wile and style.

Gentle Spirit
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9 posted 2007-04-16 11:34 AM

Time and seasons, ever changing. Very nicely done indeed Karilea.

passing shadows
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displaced

10 posted 2007-04-16 11:38 AM

beautiful read on this cold morning

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