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Sunshine
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0 posted 2000-08-12 10:04 PM


Pier Pressure

you would think there
would be no
pressure
to
experience
from the height
of the pier, looking over
the cobalts and
emeralds, a
sun
out
there
in the
distance
setting alone
leaving crystal  
fragments on the blue
comforter for me to
pick up in my
indulgences

but
the pier
feels the pressure
of the waves
daily

as
they
come and go
back and forth
release and persist
bringing along
tranquillity
strangely
met

and
it is not
without some
merit that waves
move sand and rock and
emerald-olive growth
for it is against
that very
movement
the barnacles hold
bracing fast against the
quay

but the salt sea
holds thereon
in time and
therein within
the very post
upon which
the pier is
made up of,
applies daily
pressure and
force, night
and day, the
ebb and flow
egress and
regress of
minute minutes
pressuring
pressuring
in slow laps
and waves of
tropical
hurricane

until the post
is aged away
with time of
centuries.

so while you exist
today with peer
pressure, do think
of

pier pressure

and know you are not alone.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
12 August 2000



© Copyright 2000 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
Sunnyone
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1 posted 2000-08-12 10:26 PM



    Oh, Sunshine.....

         This one is very, very fine!!!!!!
         Made me want to walk down to the
         beach and watch the sunset.....
               Good reading!!!!!!

         P.S. I like the text format, too!
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Today is a gift....
That is why they call it
    'the Present'!




[This message has been edited by Sunny1 (edited 08-12-2000).]

Mark Bohannan
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2 posted 2000-08-12 10:26 PM


Karilea you have captured a piece of my heart with this one.  I absolutely love to find one of your works in my day.  This is so beautiful.  I love the ocean and your analogy is so cool.  Well done just doesnt seem like enough.
Nan
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3 posted 2000-08-12 10:34 PM


Sunshine - You know I'm a homonymphomaniac... or was that a homophonic maniac... um... Love those tropicisms... tropisms.....
Balladeer
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4 posted 2000-08-12 10:39 PM


Ah, sunshine, I just love to see clever writing....and this certainly is. I LOVE IT!!!


Nan...you can't say no to hominy????

Sven
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5 posted 2000-08-12 11:17 PM


Sunshine,
         you said you've save me a seat!!  

Just wonderful my friend. . . very clever. . . you do have a gift. . .

-------------------------------------------------------

That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


Sunshine
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6 posted 2000-08-13 08:46 AM


Sunny, glad to know you enjoy your reading...

Mark, from my heart to yours, and vice-versa...

Nan, say what???...

'Deer, no, Nan can't...

Sven [pat, pat] sit right here...

Thank you all!

Bill Charles
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7 posted 2000-08-13 10:50 AM


Good morning Sunshine,
A different style than what I am accustomed to, but nevertheless I enjoyed the writing.
A treat to read.

Elizabeth Santos
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8 posted 2000-08-13 12:11 PM


Karilea,
Now who but you would come up with such a thought and then put it into words so beautifully.
This was interesting, unique and lovely
Liz

Jamie
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9 posted 2000-08-13 12:47 PM


That is great...except I watch the sun rise over the ocean...
Paula Finn
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10 posted 2000-08-13 01:07 PM


MMMMMM can hear the waves whispering 'round the pier...nicely penned
Marge Tindal
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11 posted 2000-08-13 02:07 PM


Karilea~
What a delight !
Felt the sway of the pier
errrrr - make that peer.
Oh, fiddlesticks !
Love the pressure !
Is that atmospheric ?
And speaking of OLD 'barnacles'
WHERE IS LONGJOHN ?

*This was simply brilliantly creative !
~*Marge*~



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Wilfred Yeats
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12 posted 2000-08-13 03:30 PM


I agree with Bill Charles - (thinking about the pressures of peers ~G~)


Sunshine
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13 posted 2000-08-13 08:57 PM


Oh my, I wasn't ready for the response! How wonderful!

Bill, many styles are exhibited here in Passions...I hope you grow to enjoy them all...

Elizabeth, I do believe if I hadn't thought of this first, you would have...thank you for your kind words...

Prometheus...I will get to the East coast some day...

Thank you Paula, for the M&M's...

Marge, you always create a grin...as to LJA's [dis]appearance, he's not got his boots where they don't belong...or at least, not here...

thank you, Mr. Yeats...

Karilea
When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ

Sudhir Iyer
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14 posted 2000-08-15 08:59 AM


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regards to you Karilea,
Sudhir

Sunshine
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15 posted 2000-08-15 09:09 AM


Sudhir, you're so funny!  Thank you!

Karilea
When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ

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