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OwlSA
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0 posted 2008-06-09 04:58 PM



CAUSE AND EFFECT
27 November 2006

You can herald
or eclipse
the dawn
of anyone’s day.
The choice is yours.

- Owl

© Copyright 2008 Diana van den Berg - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
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1 posted 2008-06-09 06:14 PM


So true, dear Diana! Short, yet containing great wisdom.

Significant!

Love,
Margherita

OwlSA
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2 posted 2008-06-09 06:50 PM


Thanks, Margherita.  It was Yann's poem, The Freedom Spells On Faces that reminded me about this poem of mine.

- Owl

Margherita
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3 posted 2008-06-09 07:18 PM


Yes, and both your beautiful poems reminded me of a haiku I once wrote:

Life flows placidly
we have the choice to be free
to cry or to laugh


Good night! It's very late ... 1.18am, gosh!

Love and hugs.
Margherita

Marchmadness
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4 posted 2008-06-09 08:37 PM


This is a very wise poem, Diana. It makes a lot of sense.
                                    Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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5 posted 2008-06-09 09:07 PM


Yo OwlSA,

Your short poem causes me to think--and that's a good thing.

Bobby

OwlSA
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6 posted 2008-06-10 04:38 AM


Thanks, Margherita.  Yours is beautiful - and so true, too.

Thanks, Ida.  Sometimes the simplest thoughts are the purest.

Thanks, Bobby.  Welcome to the club (of thinking)!  Smiles.  You know, Bobby, as strange as it may seem, I regard thinking as very exciting parts of my day - and those parts are as many as I can fit into a day!  I enjoy sharing my thoughts with people too, but outside of Pip there aren't that many people interested in anyone else's thoughts, especially if they aren't topical or even more so, typical.  Thinking is fun, and what one thinks is important and life-guiding and life-changing.

- Owl

2islander2
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7 posted 2008-06-10 11:46 AM


So beautiful Owl, I wish many people will not only read it but act it,

your poem awake me for a time,

  thanks to you.

     yann

OwlSA
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8 posted 2008-06-10 02:42 PM


Thank you Yann for your beautiful words.

- Owl  

steavenr
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9 posted 2008-06-10 03:13 PM


much wisdom in few words...well done
OwlSA
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10 posted 2008-06-10 03:58 PM


Thank you Steaven.  Glad you liked it.

- Owl

graeshine2006
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11 posted 2008-06-10 09:26 PM


Diane- you have heralded a number of mine!  Thanks. deb
Sunshine
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12 posted 2008-06-10 09:57 PM


Diane,

My niece took away my own thoughts....

Speak...and listen...


graeshine2006
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13 posted 2008-06-10 09:59 PM


Sorry Aunt Karilea.... I think you were right about that connection!  Diane - glad I got to it first...
OwlSA
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14 posted 2008-06-11 01:21 AM


Debby and Karilea, you have just heralded MINE! Literally too, because I have just come into Pip now, this early morning, and your messages were the ones to greet me and they warmed the cockles of my heart!  It is so very good to know.  I was going to say that you don't know how good, but then I realised that I know you both do.  I am going to have a very good day today, and I wish the same for you.  Beeeeeeeeeg smiles and hugs.

- Owl (Diana)

Idontmindyouundermyskin
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15 posted 2008-06-11 01:38 AM


I love short and sweet.

Makes me want to make a difference.
Eh... tomorrow sounds good. It's time to sleep.

Inspired


OwlSA
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16 posted 2008-06-11 02:09 AM


Smiles, Idon'tmindyouundermyskin.  I'm glad I inspired you to want to make a difference, but tomorrow is good.  Sleep well.

- Owl

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