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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2010-02-01 06:27 AM



The sun slowly peeks around corners of dawn
Gathering shadows on field and on lawn
Opening petals that bathe in the sun
And paint brilliant colors where hummingbirds hum

Time slowly peeks around corners of life
Gathering shadows of sorrow and strife
Letting the spirit immerse in the sun
And breathe in the peace where the hummingbirds hum

There is a child about to be born
Who will skip into sunbeams one bright early morn
His sweet little heartstrings will quietly strum
The rhythms of life like the hummingbirds hum

Whatever is taken is somehow returned
Whatever we lost is a candle we burned
Whatever we learned is our life’s total sum
To be left in a place where the hummingbirds hum

Elizabeth Santos


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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
1 posted 2010-02-01 11:09 AM


this would make a great title page for a book!

I would love to have one of your books in my library here at home

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
2 posted 2010-02-11 02:30 AM


This is beautiful and uplifting, Liz. Love your poetry.
                               Ida

Bill Charles
Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now
3 posted 2010-02-13 10:52 PM


Elizabeth - this is so tender I felt it deep inside when reading.

BC

Lucie
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since 1999-06-20
Posts 1077
Houston
4 posted 2010-02-14 06:07 PM


Oh Liz, what a wonderful poem for me to pop back in to PIP and discover. Just beautiful!
JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
5 posted 2010-02-16 07:02 PM


Fine writing...James
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