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Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
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Waukegan

0 posted 2010-05-28 08:19 AM


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Oh no
My Dear

Even these birdbrain
Geese are not so ignorant
Of what this evening
Could be going on

Nor have the wolves
For all their years
Inside a wire cage
Forgotten so completely
Despite restraint and age
A persistent wildness
In their being

So as we pass
Perhaps for one last time
They stop their hapless
Listless circling and
Follow us with their eyes

While dusk light
Shimmers on our inland seas
Caressing azure possibilities

And geese take notice
And flap their wings


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Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2010-05-28 05:42 PM


quote:
While dusk light
Shimmers on our inland seas
Caressing azure possibilities



How beautiful!


Earl Brinkman
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since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan
2 posted 2010-05-29 08:33 AM


What caught my eye was the title.  My parents live near Racine, Wisconsin and I grew up in Milwaukee and Elkhorn.  It`s a good thing Racine caught my eye because I might have missed this poem.  There is one stanza that I really love - Nor have the wolves....A persistent wildness..in their being.
2islander2
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since 2008-03-12
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by the sea
3 posted 2010-05-29 11:38 AM


a very enjoyable read, hypnotizing.

regards

yann

whisperingwalt
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since 2010-04-29
Posts 240
Coquitlam, BC, Canada
4 posted 2010-05-29 12:38 PM


"Nor have the wolves
For all their years
Inside a wire cage
Forgotten so completely
Despite restraint and age
A persistent wildness
In their being"

Really connected to this part...
very wonderful and flowing read..well cone.ww

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688
Waukegan
5 posted 2010-05-30 10:39 AM


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Thanks everyone, glad you liked it.

John

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