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Sunshine
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Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Circling Existence, a Trilogy The Beginning, Chapter I It was there, on another plane in another life in someone else’s dream somewhere amid star shine and moon’s beam loved a life anew loved another, too there, on the other plane Memories trickle in between night dream and reality where there lies the line black/white, lust/love so close, so far there, on another plane lived another life anew loved others too there, on that other plane Seafoam memories red-orange china memories fling me far away to sea there, on the other plane Perhaps an ancient bird was I as in dream state I often fly, under power of my own there, on the other plane Is it just a wanton dream, of people/beings I only want to be or is it something I should see there, on the other plane… The Middle, Chapter II I saw her on the Nile her beauty foretold her reign in gold… my death was unnoticed my arrival was unnoticed… I was there I watched Him walk before the world knew what He would do… my death was better my arrival was unnoticed… I suffered mightily for the Peace that wouldn’t come King’s Lords over rode I was overcome… my death now searched at the place of this birth… I spoke to Napoleon before Josephine arrived he was so alive his passions wouldn’t survive… of a passing no record my life of little worth… only woman, only husband to listen to the hoof beats to run from tyranny to explore new lands…retreat… we found a new world She had a light in her hand… I tilled ground fought for the right to live beside the red American who held my babe… you can still see my cross over my grave… today I wonder when all things foreign seem right deep in night’s night in the absence of light When did I begin? When will I really end… The End, Chapter III It is today Swirling around me I touch all things All things touch me Everyone has a twin Where is mine… Out there Somewhere There, on the other plane Does she look at herself And think of me? What does her heart see? Are we a repeat of history? Have I done things not yet imagined? Did I impact your life? Am I but a dream? Is there an opening to this plane One to step through Knowledgably? And if I touched it Would it shimmer? Am I a better person on the other side? Am I despised there? Do I cry? It was there, on another plane in another life in someone else’s dream somewhere amid star shine and moon’s beam today I wonder when all things foreign seem right deep in night’s night in the absence of light today, I will wonder of me there, on the other plane…in the real reality… there, go I. 10 July 2000 ©Karilea Rilling Jungel |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Oh my....I will be back when I can inhale this beauty fully.... till then this shall be Circling Existence in me library  oh you speak to me in riddles |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Truly mesmerising work, indeed!!! Regards O Karilea, Sudhir |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
You know how much I love this one. . . thank you for bringing it back my friend. . . It will always be one of my favorites of yours. . .  ----------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Thank you all.... |
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