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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2001-02-17 08:52 AM

'Neath the Willow

long ago
in lesson taught
in order
not to break
told to
bend like the willow
for sanity's sake

hide the hurt well
lest it not cast a spell
nor to ever tell
but fling
your voice forth
like a bell
in summer

O meet me again
'neath the willow tree
lift me high again
as a child of three
lay in the shade
and tell me
a story
Hans will do

caress my mind
one more time
let me unwind
for a time
or two

the grass is softer
'neath the tree
the limbs speak
and whisper to me
your voice floats
to the child
of forty and nine
and once again
your words
of time
bend like the willow
come to mind

so it is as it is
and I have bent
in the wind
stood in the sun
to do it again
have transpired the cold
have lost my leaves
for all of this
I do not grieve

for until the axe
rents the air
my roots go deep
and I'll not compare
nor despair of
my place
here, in the sun
near the water's edge
true,
I cannot run
tho stagnant I'll not be
but I shall
bend like the willow
the tree that I be

02.17.01

Karilea
If I whisper, will you listen?...
I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound.
KRJ

Butterflies_dont_cry
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since 2000-03-06

Posts 3733
Michigan

1 posted 2001-02-17 08:58 AM

Karilea*
You brought me back to my childhood in this
fantastic weave...there is a willow tree in
the back yard of my parent's home...I
remember how the bows would hang to the
ground and running through them into my
secret sancutary...I miss the feeling that I
was completely invisible...though I'm sure I
was noticed there...I never thought I
was...sometimes we all need to feel like we
can hide...finding comfort of alone...

Whew....what a walk down memory lane...thank
you! Your poetry always evokes something in
me that I've tried to bury away...thank you
for weaving it the way that you feel it~

Kit McCallum

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Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada

2 posted 2001-02-17 09:06 AM

"the grass is softer
'neath the tree
the limbs speak
and whisper to me
your voice floats
to the child
of forty and nine
and once again
your words
of time
bend like the willow
come to mind"

What a wonderfully soothing and calming vision you've painted with these melodic words Karilea ... so beautifully picturesque ... I just loved this!

Best wishes,
/Kit

laryalee
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since 2000-06-19

Posts 352
Alberta, Canada

3 posted 2001-02-17 09:55 AM

Oo-oh, this is so good! So delightful to read, so beautiful to understand - Karilea, it's a real gem, I don't know what else to say!
Lary

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

4 posted 2001-02-17 11:01 AM

I feel the same as Butterflies, although I don't know why she would try to bury anything away because she is an excellent poet with such a love for the same...however. Karilea this is a wonderful comparison to yourself and from such a sage childhood lesson...well written...but, I have come to expect that from you. This nostalgia really works on me you know, that's why I write so many ballads...take care! I'm always looking forward to reading some of your very creative works...and, you don't seem to run dry...quite amazing! ethome

The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges.

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

5 posted 2001-02-17 11:08 AM

GLORIOUSLY STUNNING, wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Martie

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6 posted 2001-02-17 12:32 PM

Karilea...this poem is awesome!!! (you speak from my heart with these words ..must be my looking glass you see through or mine I see you through...)

Elizabeth

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7 posted 2001-02-17 01:03 PM

I love this poem...and the pictures it brought to my mind as I read it. I'm posting here one of my favorite songs, because I thought you would like to read the words to it. Your poem reminded me of this.

Long Time Ago
(Folk song-author unknown)

On the lake where droop'd the willow
Long time ago
Where the rock threw back the billow
Brighter than snow
Dwelt a maid belov'd and cherish'd
By high and low
But with autumn leaf she perish'd
Long time ago...

Rock and tree and flowing water
Long time ago
Bird and bee and blossom taught her
Love's spell to know
While to my fond words she listen'd
Murmuring low
Tenderly her blue eyes glisten'd
Long time ago...

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

8 posted 2001-02-17 01:18 PM

Oh my....look what sharing poetry does....takes folks down memory lane, allows them to share their feelings, causes gifts to be given....

poets amaze me....they give to live...and live to give....

thank you all!

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