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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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LUCKY ME 1 January 2013 I smile my joy at my lucky life, full of blessings and beneficial strife – too many of each to list tonight, but three that are ever burning bright: music, soulful, soft and real, and poetry that holds my heart in quiver-seal, and a forest that breathes and moves and grows, born of dreams that a rainbow sows. I want to hold on to each fluid note that charms my ear and savour every taste of it just like each sparkle-word of every poem that I breathe and wrap around myself and each leaf of every tree that I glory at, but there are too many notes and beautiful poems and leaves, and even if I live to be a hundred-and-thirty-one, there is so little time and their abundance is what makes me feel like a gypsy wandering under a starbright sky, a penniless millionaire. Owl |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
Wonderful poem! Love the ending - "penniless millionaire" says it all! Enjoyed! Kat >^..^< |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Smiles, Kitty Cat! Thank you for understanding it so well! Owl |
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Richy Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 3050 |
what a positive joy this was Diana.. quintessential you  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Rich, for knowing how me this is. Smiles. Owl |
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mvvenkataraman Member
since 2011-11-12
Posts 72India |
Dear Poetess, Your noble heart Gives me comfort Time is damn short Please play your part By being greatly smart. mvvenkataraman |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you for your reply, mvvenkatamaran. Owl |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Especially like the ending, my friend. A lot more need to understand that. Good write. j. |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Yes indeed, you are forever young in this life because you have enjoyed the richness and wonder of it. jo |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Jimmy. It has its disadvantages, of course (hee hee), but perhaps the pennilessness enhances the exhilaration! Yes, I find it so sad that so many people just don't see all the beauty around them. Smiles. Thank you, Martyjo. Yes, in all my 67 years, I have never, for a moment, lost the wonder of, and amazement at, so much beauty and glory around me. It is sometimes exhausting, but that is an exhaustion I am happy to experience. Of course, along with the quiver-wonder, comes the quiver-horror of disasters that happen to so many people and animals and trees and plants and things of beauty and necessity and that is even more exhausting and debilitating. However, I suppose that is the yin and yang of life, and balance, despite - or because of - the horrors, often is what brings harmony and peace and true goodness and progress of the best kind. I am rambling. Owl |
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Spiros Zafiris Senior Member
since 2002-10-20
Posts 982Canada |
..bravo Diana..much enjoyed this upbeat poem.. ..spiros ~~ |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Spiros. Smiles. Owl |
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