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bluestem
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0 posted 2001-05-30 10:00 PM



Sleeping Bear


summers of youth
spent fishing in the sun,
collecting wild berries, wild beauty,
and woodticks
adventures in the forest,
in the north, then in the west
always entranced
ever awake

and then the coming darkness
i dug a den for many years
--a place to find some rest--
winter rolled around somehow,
i said goodbye to sunshine
nestled down one day, deep within my den
i slept through cold dark winters,
i slept for three years solid.

a sleeping bear won't wake 'till spring,
nothing stirs its slumber--
the bear grows weak and deathly cold
reduced to skin and heavy bones--
it rests in quiet unawares
and sleeps among its ****

wake up, you say, it's spring again,
i awaken to your pleas
you've roused me from my den and now
a dangerous bear stalks your world

crippled by sleep
and three years lost

© Copyright 2001 Sara Marks - All Rights Reserved
doreen peri
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1 posted 2001-05-30 10:04 PM


crippled by sleep
and three years lost


.... great lines.......
welcome to the blue pages

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2 posted 2001-05-30 10:05 PM


this is very interesting....I enjoyed the read  
Red_Feather
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3 posted 2001-06-04 11:59 PM


I dare say i love this bluestem. You write a vivid picture my friend. I like that i could still feel your stlye even though this was longer and told more of a story.

One's not half two it's two are halves of one EE Cummings

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