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Klassy Lassy
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0 posted 2011-09-15 07:36 PM


silent sentries
neighborhood trees
hold their breath in silhouette

sip stolen violet
from a sun still in hiding ~

guard heaven's slip across the world
half lit, still devining

my hunger
for September sapphire
and the aroma of yellow
49ers

where tiny arachnid
skitters the quiet,  casts his net
among a sea of dewdrops

for one last taste
of summer


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Margherita
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1 posted 2011-09-15 07:39 PM


where tiny arachnid
skitters the quiet,  casts his net
among a sea of dewdrops

for one last taste
of summer


Awesome, dear Karen! So good to read you again, Poetess.

Love,
Margherita

Klassy Lassy
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2 posted 2011-09-15 07:50 PM


  Thank you Magherita.  Such a warm smile you have!  I have missed being here, too, feeling the ephiphanies of poetry, and my friends.  I'll try not to be such a stranger, at least leave an ink blot from time to time.

[This message has been edited by Klassy Lassy (09-16-2011 01:09 AM).]

Sunshine
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3 posted 2011-09-15 08:16 PM


Now how many people would
use the word "arachnid"
for spider...

you made Charlotte beautiful
again!




JL
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4 posted 2011-09-15 09:07 PM


"for one last taste
of summer"

I think your poem is a snap shot of the end of summer, great poetic pictorial.


(But I am so glad summer is out-of-here)...


JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Klassy Lassy
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5 posted 2011-09-16 12:56 PM


Sunshine, I think Charlotte would have approved. She was privileged to have a name!  LOL... I appreciate the thought!
Klassy Lassy
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6 posted 2011-09-16 01:08 AM


JL, We had a very short summer here, but I love autumn before the torrential rains beging,  However, I would happily send some Oregon rain to those areas where wildfires are burning if they were to come early.  We've had them around the state, too.     
Krawdad
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7 posted 2011-09-16 02:11 AM


Nice piece.
In my calendar we are just ending of the Month of the Spider.

Klassy Lassy
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8 posted 2011-09-16 11:46 AM


We seem to be inundated with them by October...  creepy crawley things all over the eves of my house.  And I am afraid of them.  They have their purpose, but I wish they would conduct it at a distance.  

Thank you for stopping to read.  ~KL

OwlSA
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9 posted 2011-09-16 12:05 PM


Karen, this is oh, so beautiful.  I especially loved the part about the dear little spider - not just because of Charlotte.

You are only afraid of spiders because you don't know them the way Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry's fox knew The Little Prince.  

Please give them my address (but ask them to come by ship or plane - as it is too far to swim).  They can live in the haven of my indigenous forest garden.

I think I should repost my spider poem soon.

Owl

Klassy Lassy
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10 posted 2011-09-16 12:38 PM


Diana, please do.  There is an hallucination associated with spiders that I had once...and it came from a story of a black widow bite.  The vision was aggravated by a medicine I took.  One night in half-sleep I saw spiders falling off the ceiling by the hundreds, and I couldn't get away. Shaken, I rose and flushed the medication... but a few years ago, it seemed to rain spiders off the front porch of my house for real one night in October.  Luckily, I wasn't on the porch, and my son-in-law cleared them away, but that memory is vivid.

Do post your poem. Your poems are always such a pleasure to read!     

Angel4aKing
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11 posted 2011-09-18 02:06 PM


wow beautiful portrayal of Autumn!!!!

~~~kingsangel~~~

Klassy Lassy
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12 posted 2011-09-19 02:12 PM


...thank you, Angel!

JamesMichael
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13 posted 2011-09-22 08:32 PM


Enjoyed...James
BluesSerenade
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14 posted 2011-09-22 08:52 PM


Oh Lassy, what a gorgeous snapshot.

Your word capture is brilliant and every word blends so beautifully.


ebonygirl
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15 posted 2011-09-22 10:46 PM


Nice poem of Fall, enjoyed, ms. e
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16 posted 2011-09-24 12:53 PM


I'm thinking you're 49ers aren't my favorite football team... what a wonderful piece my friend, I like spiders, when i see one now, i catch it and put him to steppin outside, eight legs and all...


Klassy Lassy
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17 posted 2011-10-19 09:44 AM


Richy,
Yellow Forty-niners are very heady gold roses!     I should have spelled the name

~~~~~~~~~
Blues, I love the crisp clear days of fall, but they are all too soon given over to a shroud of gray for winter.  So, I cherish the colors to get me through it.  

~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you, ms. e.  

Krawdad
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18 posted 2011-10-19 11:11 AM


Now I know what Yellow Forty-niners are.  You had me guessing.  Thanks.
OwlSA
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19 posted 2011-10-19 04:21 PM


Karen, you were away at the time I re-posted my Spider poem for you and I wanted to email you to tell you that I had done so, but you don't have your email address available so I couldn't - so I am just mentioning it now.  It is probably a few pages back now.  Smiles.

Owl

Namyh
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20 posted 2011-10-19 09:18 PM


Klassy Lassy - In addition to all the other compliments, let me say I was captivated by the visual and poetic craft of your words in this piece. They do make an impact on the reader, along with the spiders of course. Very nice work KlassyL. Namyh
The Lady
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21 posted 2011-10-19 10:46 PM



ahh Karen
I fear I am in love with the
sip stolen violet
from a sun still in hiding ~

Earth Angel
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22 posted 2011-10-22 03:27 PM


I love your descriptive writing, Klassy One! ~ and your wonderful use of alliteration!
I enjoyed sipping the last drops of summer's sweetness!

So good to read your words again, my friend!


Love,
Linda

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