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Sunshine
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0 posted 2003-03-05 04:39 PM





Pacific Walking

I want to walk
the Pacific again


not necessarily
reside, but my
lungs require
salty inspire

to breath its air
hear great foggy horns
and crying gulls,
that they try to
replicate on tape
but somehow those
gulls seem fake

I want to walk
the Pacific again


Years became decades,
in times gone
I walked my beach
felt its wave,
plucked pink shells
from beach washed grave
before they cracked
before crushed
to dust, when I
was one
with foamy water
and stinging salt,
remembering again
those long ago
thoughts ~

I want to walk the
Pacific again


grainy Pismo sand
under feet,
Redondo beach was
warm,  sun-sweet
with first kiss
those first loves
and wind-honeyed
moments
in the fog ~

I want to walk the
Pacific again


western breezes
flung my hair to
strips of ribboned gold,

sun brought freckles
to this face, and I knew
God broke the mold

slender of stance,
soon faced the test of beast
moved in love to
faraway east

nothing is quite like the
western beach, its sound
waves
surf

nothing can take me
back to yesterday
but I still hold on
for all
my worth

I want to walk
the Pacific again


to hear my pounding
heart, then
feel the crashing waves
and spray
walk along the rocky way
and the magnificence
God imparts

salt of sea
is calling me

to walk the Pacific again.



23 December 2000
revised 24 December 2001
revised 5 March 2003
in warm memory of WY


© Copyright 2003 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2003-03-05 04:45 PM


very nice...

perhaps you are due a vacation..and a walk along the shores.. just to remember with fondness...


Martie
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2 posted 2003-03-05 04:45 PM


Karilea...You still have a place to stay, with me!   for your sweet dedication to WY.
Seymour Tabin
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3 posted 2003-03-05 05:52 PM


Sunshine
Well just take your shoes off and walk away.
An intricate write and a good one.

wandering glider
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aloft
4 posted 2003-03-05 05:55 PM


Brings back vivid images . . .
I wonder if I could go back without destroying them?

w.g.

Jason Lyle
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5 posted 2003-03-05 05:57 PM


This took me back to every walk on the beach i've enjoyed.Thanks for this.
Jason

Spiros Zafiris
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6 posted 2003-03-05 09:13 PM


..Sunshine/\.very calming poem; very songlike; i much enjoyed..

../\..Spiros


--------------calming ocean----

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7 posted 2003-03-05 09:23 PM


Karilea, this brought some sweet memories to my mind, loving beaches the way I do. We have some of the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen here by the Gulf Of Mexico.

I'll bet they are beautiful in California, too......the memories sure do sound beautiful, friend....

Hugs,
Ethel

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8 posted 2003-03-05 09:49 PM


Oh Karilea, I nearly cried reading this. I have such wonderful, loving memories of walking the beaches in the San Diego area.

If you decide to walk those beaches again, let me know, cause I'd love to walk them with you.

The East Coast beaches are beautiful, but the sunsets on the beaches of the west coast are just breathtaking.

Great writing.  Huggles, Marti


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Canada eh.
9 posted 2003-03-05 10:35 PM


May I walk with you?
This is a delight to the senses Karilea..
so very much enjoyed.
~Hugs & a Smile~

~ Trace my body with your words..
And in doing so, you touch my heart. ~

Janet Marie
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10 posted 2003-03-05 10:59 PM


I walked my beach
felt its wave,
plucked pink shells
from beach washed grave
before they cracked
before crushed
to dust,
=============================

tis so appro that I read this now, based on what I found in my mailbox when I got home tonite...*smiling at you*
this gem of pen is going in me treasure chest to go along with the gifted treasure.
I will email shortly..THANK YOU


*also smiling at the dedication*

    
peace & poetry

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