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Mike
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since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

0 posted 2000-07-29 03:59 PM

                As solemn silence reverberates,
                ...over pall of dying day,
                Evening darkens into night,
                ...death's calm on land does lay.

                From afar, repose is broken,
                ...by sound of nature's hymns,
                Vespers of a settling wind,
                ...sound forth through muted limbs.

                With fading rays of sinking sun,
                ...shadows stalk the winds of fate,
                Silent death with razored claws,
                ...springs forth from Eden's gate.

                As solemn silence reverberates,
                ...over pall of dying fawn,
                The forest and its creatures,
                ...wait advent of the dawn.

                In Luna's light, shadows dance,
                ...across dawn's silent threshold,
                Darkness fades, its anger spent,
                ...an eerie calm betold.

                First breath of morning softly whispers,
                ...upon lush land below,
                As eastern sky in garden blooms,
                ...at touch of sun's first glow.

                Amidst the splendor of day's wakening,
                ...feral creatures pause,
                In cathedral of the forest,
                ...as hush of night withdraws.

                In that fleeting, tranquil instant,
                ...t'wixt darkness and the morn,
                Amongst the forest, and its creatures,
                ...a speckled fawn is born.

AVANTI
Senior Member

since 2000-02-02

Posts 664
INDIA/MAHARASHTRA/PUNE

1 posted 2000-07-29 04:36 PM

very well written...
simply beautuful imaginery
wonderful work

If all was light...then I would have never learnt the dark...from which such truth evolves
from which evolves the light...
Avanti Rao

Meadowmuse
Member Elite

since 1999-12-27

Posts 3263

2 posted 2000-07-29 05:38 PM

This is one of my "favorites" of yours...though choosing one over another is such a difficult task. Take care,

~ Claire

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-07-29 09:07 PM

You do have a way with words, Mike! This is breathtakingly beautiful!

Denise

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2000-07-29 09:39 PM

Mike...this is one of my favorites too...I'm so glad to see it here so I could read it again..and vote!

Mike
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since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

5 posted 2000-07-30 09:32 PM

Thank you for the kind and gracious replies.
They are truly appreciated.

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2000-07-30 09:53 PM

Mike~
Such a beautiful serenity comes over me
as I read this piece.

I've been to the forest and seen the scenes.
I've gazed, with reverence,
upon the speckled fawn.

Thanks for this beauty.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

7 posted 2000-07-31 02:32 AM

This is beautiful, Mike, and I loved the ending - Perfect
Liz

Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

8 posted 2000-08-04 12:38 PM

Beautiful!

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