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Sunshine
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0 posted 2000-06-14 10:14 PM



It Rippled Today

Did you feel it?  Ever so tentative,
less than a breath, a trigger
of action occurring in a touch
of finger's skin to temple ~
~ a catch of thought ~
so it has again begun.

It is moving closer although
it will have no final destination.

There can be no action without
a reaction, and nothing ever
comes to a complete stop.

Because there was a ripple today.

God, I pray
that I will be aware
of the nuances this very slight movement will provide
~ a flash of color ~
~a scent so silently pervasive ~
and that I will know that
it touched me.

Like McKuen's "Stanyon Street"
the symbolism of the words alone
evade memories of things long gone,
but never forgotten.

I was not listening when that
ripple of yesterday passed, I had only
felt the breath of a decision
and that path then taken
lies in some wooded dream
of long ago.
Done rippled along in other directions.
Outcomes which someday
may ripple back to me.

Consider it never too late
to make life changing decisions,
as they only come to you
on ripples of conscience,
and do with it all the good
that you can.

©KRJ
2 May 2000


 Sunshine

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~


© Copyright 2000 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
Lighthousebob
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1 posted 2000-06-14 11:24 PM


  Profoundly, the simple things that I have set in motion, I have initiated unnoticed.

Bob <><  

WhtDove
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2 posted 2000-06-15 12:45 PM


Lot's of thought went into this one! My first thought was an earthquake. I like this much  
Alle'cram
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3 posted 2000-06-15 12:55 PM


Sunshine, You do have a beautiful way with words, penning them in a manner not causing a ripple, but acknowledging them. Ripples will be part of a born-again's life, that is why is it so important to be grounded in God and faith, not in man.  Man causes ripples, sometimes unknowly, sometimes in spite of, God will calm the hearts He lives in.
A very beautiful piece, written from a very good heart.   Blessings, Marcy

ellie LeJeune
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4 posted 2000-06-15 06:41 AM


Sunshine; This is so full of food for thought. When God is using us and we listen to that small still voice, watch out! Miracles can happen. beautiful! Love, Ellie

 Summers haunting melody that awakens the butterflies, calling them to join the dance in their silent song of praise to God. E LeJeune


Sunshine
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5 posted 2000-06-15 09:09 AM


Bob, truth!...

Whtdove, thanks!...

Alle, when humans walk with God, the ripples can be miracles...

Ellie, exactly, and thank you so much!...

 Sunshine

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~


BSC
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6 posted 2000-06-15 10:04 AM


Sunshine - How those little ripples can grow into beautiful waves...or, damaging tides.  This is wonderful, it gives so much to think about, a great message in an awesome poem. Bonnie
Sunshine
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7 posted 2000-06-15 03:59 PM


Thank you Bonnie!

 Sunshine

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~


brian madden
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8 posted 2000-06-15 04:43 PM


I was not listening when that
ripple of yesterday passed, I had only
felt the breath of a decision
and that path then taken
lies in some wooded dream
of long ago.
Done rippled along in other directions.
Outcomes which someday
may ripple back to me.

Consider it never too late
to make life changing decisions,
as they only come to you
on ripples of conscience,
and do with it all the good
that you can.

Sunshine, really beautiful. I love to watch the ripples move across the ponds of life carrying to places unknown. lovely poem, lots to think about especially love the last verse.

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"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.

"Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso

"We Irish are too poetical to be poets, we are a nation of brilliant failures" Oscar Wilde


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Sunshine
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9 posted 2000-06-15 04:58 PM


Thank you Brian.  One of the things that make me feel best is when one picks out those pieces of a poem that strike him/her best.  Your comments thrill me as well, thank you!
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