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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

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a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-08-31 04:07 PM

         Autumn in Appalachia

My roots run deep among the ghosts and
rocks of these woods and ancient hills,
where moon and sun rise from the very
    stones,
(with the sound of their most profound
    silences)
sweeping clean a thousand valleys
and all the scars of life and love
so the wounded soul may still walk
    in steadfast dignity,
that ever more desolate road
    into Winter…
mid the flickering, frost-edged
   moonbeams and shadows
of such a fine Autumn night.

           --- b. e. adams (8/31/08)

[This message has been edited by secondhanddreampoet (08-31-2008 05:47 PM).]

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2008-08-31 05:56 PM

"flickering, frost-edged
moonbeams"
Beautiful imagery, Bruce.

TheAnonDavid
Member

since 2008-08-28

Posts 237
UK

2 posted 2008-09-01 09:23 AM

You certainly show an affinity with your surroundings in this poem bringing a whole landscape to life.

ArtSolstice
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since 2007-03-18

Posts 498

3 posted 2008-09-03 01:08 PM

Often when reading your artful writing, Poet, lines of a Delmore Schwartz poem spring to mind: "What am I now that I was then?/ May memory restore again and again/ The smallest color of the smallest day."

You do that for us. You continuously restore the smallest color of the smallest day in a way that brings to our attention the significance of each earthly essence and sensation and the pulse of the natural world. In this especially finely written work, you've put yourself in the picture first (unusual for you, I think?) underscoring the importance this magnificent part of the world to you specifically, and inviting the reader to share it.

[This message has been edited by ArtSolstice (09-03-2008 03:38 PM).]

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2008-09-03 02:40 PM

Bruce, you do so much with so few words, and paint landscapes that Kincaid would marvel at!

Bravo!

Woodsman
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since 2008-09-03

Posts 25
Stony Creek, Va originally...Now Muskoka Ontario

5 posted 2008-09-03 04:23 PM

Beautiful

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Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2008-09-04 01:16 PM

You make me feel as if I have been to Appalachia (where my father's family came from) though I have never seen it.
Ida

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

7 posted 2008-09-04 06:12 PM

A beauty!!!

ARCTIC WIND

A Romantic Heart
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since 1999-09-03

Posts 5496
Forever In Your Heart

8 posted 2008-09-05 04:35 PM

Now to have someone to share that romantic scene with , would be perfection!

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