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Wild & Free.......(verse)
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Wild & Free.......(verse) |
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Nan
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since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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 The wild Abounding in personality. Peer leerily upon urbanity's inane domestication From natural hospice Of open lea Weeding deciduous walls Defy humanity's Exterminant repinery Dawn to dusk Unseen populace Unstill huff and decry The absurdities of civil meglomania Meadow's edge hosts Lop-eared hare grazing Intuitively ear to ground in silent sentinel fielding Perceptions of malintent Reliant rodentia Cavort sporadically about Dashing burrow to bunker Stalwartly bored and buffered From groundside mendacity Flickertails glide aloft Bough to limb Wherefrom but birds on wing Can safely soar away From merest hint of imminent injure Crimson dragonflies apathetically alight Oblivious to harm's capacity From pupa, grand monarchs flutter by, vying to see all despite life's brevity Dusk to dawn Nature's nocturnal vanguard stirs Frolicsome fireflies abuzz enlighten dusky twilight dale As festive holiday strand about conic evergreen Eve's sated doe leads twin fawn To forestland's parapet Defiant 'possum lay claim To mankind's nocturnal road Refusing compliance to his erosive way Ages of collective wisdom Harmonize in resounding crickets trill-ions of Vociferous reminders of strength in unity Erstwhile, distantly distinctive Domestic canine's frenzied bark Euolgizes man's animality As the anticity of the wild and free thrives symbiotically And a self-destructive indifferent world of Inhumanity dwells complacently within its concrete cave Waft every crest upon your destined sea Embrace the Wave of Serendipity Lest its elusive arcane ecstasy Refurl with sail for all eternity Nancy Ness [This message has been edited by Nan (edited 08-13-2001).] |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Nan~ Resplendent with imagery~ 'Flickertails glide aloft Bough to limb Wherefrom but birds on wing Can safely soar away From merest hint of imminent injure' You truly touch nature in your verse~ Glad to see MissGypsiNess let you out of the tent !  *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Nan, A wonderful write but the sum of this equation is beyond evasion. You are a bright candle indeed. *L* |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Crimson dragonflies apathetically alight Oblivious to harm’s capacity From pupa, grand monarchs flutter by, vying to see all despite life’s brevity Dusk to dawn Nature’s nocturnal vanguard stirs Frolicsome fireflies abuzz enlighten dusky twilight dale As festive holiday strand about conic evergreen Eve’s sated doe leads twin fawn To forestland’s parapet Defiant ‘possum lay claim To mankind’s nocturnal road Refusing compliance to his erosive way ======================= the imagery in this is superbly done... and I loved the vocabulary, as well as the creative presentation. There is much to take in here...both in vision and message... going back to read this beauty again. What a treat to have a Nan post today  love your signature too jm I know no one is to blame |
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Janette
since 2001-07-20
Posts 2843Chicagoland for now |
Wow...such a lovely play with nature and vocabulary. This one really made me think! Loved the "Bambi" picture, too...Ahhhhhhhh! |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
good stuff about the man yuh |
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poetsguild Member
since 2001-08-12
Posts 85Florida |
You've captured the suffering inflicted upon the natural world so well. A tour de force. Thanks. |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Nan- Wow! What a picture this paints! This is just packed full of beautiful imagery. Wonderful verse, my friend. hugs, ~vicky "...until you have read the verse on his |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Wow NAN, don't see much from you but it always humbles me when I do (not sure I understood the highlighting though...sorry) jwesley |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Nan, I was surprised to see free-verse from such a structured gal  But, you do write in free-verse so wonderfully with great imagery and flair. You were meant to be a poet~As always, your way with words awes me Melissa~ "Poetry is not an opinion expressed... |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
By Jiminy, I think I know it now...I've always been a cricket! Loved it! |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Nan--So beautifully done with natural imagery and "man" woven into the meaning in such a clever way. Loved the way you did this! |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
If this is what 7 days in a hot tent will ddo, I'm gonna get me one. Nan, my dear, this is exquisitly done. A rhymer turned free verser! (I still love ya) Liz |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very well done, Nan! I enjoyed this very much! |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
A great reminder of the sad state of our earth, Nan. Also loved the use of ? for '! Cor |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Thank you all so very much for taking a moment to stop, read, and enjoy. Living in the great outdoors does give one an appreciation for the magnitude of life outside of our doors... I'll see if I can muster up some more verses while I'm in the wild...  The '?'... That one's thanks to Word's thinking for itself..  |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Be nice to that reliant rodentia....I count on them.. You shine in this one, Ms. Nan. Isn't it fun living the wild life? |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
The outdoors suits you Nan, this was beautiful. Good, let's have more, as this was a keeper and a half! Enjoy your escape. To see real beauty ~ look with your heart |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
  Another wunnerful work, Nanners. I sure miss you! geesh.. |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
ok, first things first, what's a "malinent"? is there really such a thing as "rodentia"? isn't that a town somewhere in florida? i never met an apathetic dragonfly, very very cool! i bet your pupas at school will love this one! i used to be a sated doe, now i'm just a sometimes saturated doeween... lol....i had a "vociferous reminder" once, but i can't remember what it was trying to remind me!! this whole piece is very "symbiotic" and makes me symbathize with everyone living in a concrete cave.... geeeeezzzzzzzzz, you sure have gone au naturale on us or, er, umm.... nature becomes you... oh deer me, i have no clue what i'm trying to say except that this was one very kewl pome, l'il miss campergal.... do me a favor, k? oh but, remind me not to play scrabble with you again until i brush up on my vocabulary..... you should write more free verse more often, btw, seems you have quite a knack for it.... enjoyed this very much |
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shadow of the fall Member
since 2001-08-13
Posts 83Indiana |
this is very thought provokinig and made me read twice. Beautiful picture also. |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Ah Nan ... positively superb - a topic that's dear to my heart, and you've captured all so beautifully! The imagery in the sentiments portrayed, the links between "man" and "nature" so intricately woven throughout, right down to the "concrete cave", excellent! This was such a treat to read ... almost tickled the mind with the wonderful wording ... I enjoyed this immensely my friend! Best wishes, /Kit |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
once more, you have improved my vocabulary, Nan. I do enjoy reading your poems, thank you. ~Wynter |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
More appreciation to you all.. I can't respond individually, unfortunately - I can't stay online long enough to do so - But I really love that you've all enjoyed this - as I sit here listening to the birds chirp.. and watching a spider engulf the tree beside me... |
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citizenx Member
since 2001-07-31
Posts 189motorcade |
From natural hospice Of open lea Weeding deciduous walls Defy humanity's Exterminant repinery Nan, amazing images nad weaving of the beauty of nature and evil man is capable of. Wow one for the library. shadows flicker sweet end tame |
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