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Zeke |
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clawmute Junior Member
since 2007-10-01
Posts 24Arkansas, USA |
EZEKIEL By Frank Lee Jennings Ezekiel was a mountain man rare that day and age couldn't stand the city life seemed just like a cage lived up in the mountains, yep way back in the hills shared his nights with saw whet owls and wistful whippoorwills shared a one room cabin with an aging one eyed dog had a blackened fireplace for Oak and Hickory logs Hunted wild game with his hounds fished the spring fed streams had a cleared spot on the flat for corn n' peas' n' beans Spent springs and summers workin' on his little backwoods place but came the fall was time to hunt and hear the blueticks race then winter'ed come and bring the snow with howlin' sleet n' rain while Zeke and Joe, the one eyed dog mused at the window pane the stack of firewood at the door was mighty good to see when ten below hung on for days the fire was where to be days and weeks of slate gray skies while outside fetchin' logs or drawin' water from the well or tendin' to the dogs then one bright day, winter'ed break and snowdrifts start to melt in early spring Zeke heads to town to swap his catch of pelts people all would stop and stare at this peculiar sight a man in buckskins totin' furs in early mornin' light Zeke would trade his winters' catch for things he couldn't grow then finger through the merchandise guns, knives and calico but soon he'd leave the settled land and journey far away a score of days and he'd be home another year to stay to live the life that he so loved in virgin rollin' hills n' share his nights with saw whet owls and wistful whippoorwills |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
I enjoyed this write greatly, dear Frank. I love the mountains too, but not to such a degree of solitude ... I experienced twenty below and it was brrrrrrrrrr tremendous. This character Zeke is beautifully described here. Love, Margherita  |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Frank~ You tell a WONDERFUL poetic tale~ So much talent in your pennings~ I visited your web blog spot ... saw the photos of the kids ... and the gorgeous spot you and Martha call home ..~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~ |
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