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Auburn Tears
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Auburn Tears |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Tales so wrought with waste and woe passed on from hands of red to white, as the sinking sun beats crimson gold into the flame of the autumn night. As auburn tears wash worn and whiskered faces in day's dark one learns to keep the silence, still burning, borrowed, in hallowed hearts. And what once was rouged with sacred soil is now stark. As night becomes a blessing to the clay red soul and once again, beating drums in distance, toll, their measured strokes of scarlet syllables sound the darkening honor roll. Though wounds, with time, may heal and fade, signed scars remain atop the prairie. Tribes once were held in reverent acclaim forever and more shall they perish. And elder ones are quick to tell of honor and of brave brothers, and of the wounded warlord's rasping reign still faithful to fallen others. And of knowing the Earth, of sharing the Sun, of music wracked with wisdom, of blessings beyond one's arms and eyes of promise and peaceful tradition. When man and maker loved each day and dawning brought new reason, and God's green sacred grasses grew and change was the turn of the seasons. |
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Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
This is magnificent, Meadowmuse. Very fine piece! Denise |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
This packs a poignant message, Claire - it needs to stay on top for awhile here...  |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Oh yes, this deserves to be on top. I am impressed with your use of language and subject as well--very well done. In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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JOY 14 Senior Member
since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419Wisconsin USA |
Every stanza has a message! Wow. (Although I like the very first stanza the best. The description in this was exceptional!) JOY |
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whiskey
since 1999-12-28
Posts 1278Australia |
Wonderful very powerful |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
Very pulchritudinous!!! ~*~ Hell is not a place of fire and a devil with a tail and horns. But a place of torment because the light of God is gone. To escape this, accept the blood of Jesus Christ! ~*~ |
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Meadowmuse Member Elite
since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263 |
Thank you all...this message is important to me. Glad you enjoyed the poem. |
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