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Blue Gray Day
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Blue Gray Day |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee 
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This gray blue day stretches out in slats touching me awkward “What is the matter?” I ask Mother Nature She greets me welled up ready to spill buckets I am understanding eyes I walk the porch in static air, knowing the rains are just around the edges What is that sense of yellow that hovers the skin just before storms Why are we allowed to feel before we see things so differently than we hear them Like breathing Like your heartbeat The sound of things breaking inside your own body Lightening Happiness feels yellow on gray blue days Thunder rolls all around me Today I hear nothing, just sigh sounds |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
rwood, You are so right my wife gets a pain in the knee before it rains never fails. LOL as for the sigh sounds I guess it's not going to rain for you today. I know the inferance of the symbols, just having fun. Great write.  |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
This gray blue day stretches out in slats touching me awkward "What is the matter?" I ask Mother Nature She greets me welled up ready to spill buckets I am understanding eyes I walk the porch in static air, knowing the rains are just around the edges ============================== you make the reader feel and smell the rain with the anticipation of your words... love the "feel" of this whole poem Reggie... a mix of blues and longing and wonder of things to come. and how cool is this line of imagery and analogy: stretches out in slats touching me awkward something about that just held me there. very cool indeed  When your own emptiness is all thats getting through, |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Regina, you know, oh you know, IWIHWT...you did it so very, very well... |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
Thunder rolls all around me Today I hear nothing, just sigh sounds Beautifully expressed thunderstorm, Regina. I love rain and thunder and I prefer the grey cloudy days to the bright sunny ones... It was raining here, when I got up this morning and it just looked so beautiful with everything soaking wet. It made everything shine...I think a poem is writing itself in my head right now...My muse has returned from a weeks vacation....finally. I love your poem.  ~ Big splashy rainy hugsLyra |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
I recognize the feeling so much! The static inside oneself radiates into the air the the yellowness of happiness is being scratched and unsettled by it. Fantastically woven images, sensations, you communicate marvelously! Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Oh Regina...I know what you mean... The storms are about to roll in here... and I get that feeling as well.. electricity in the air. Loved this! ~Hugs~ |
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jellybeans Member Elite
since 2000-10-13
Posts 2298 |
well, if ever a blue gray day was put to paper, it would be this...it is so hard to describe the feelings you write about, but you did it so well....the rain clouds are hovering around my edges also, I feel every word of this *hugs* |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
This is magnificent  Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
reg, if you can feel rain before it comes, you need to visit calif for a few weeks...see if there is anything on it's way.. dug the view babe..you do it good!! |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
Sounds foreshadowing. So much for the calm before the storm. I've felt that tense electric heaviness before and it's disconcerting. |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Regina I love the electrified waiting for a storm..makes the ions rage, or something. We sure need some in California if you have any leftover. You write so well! |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
yet another great write! I lvoed each line, and know what it is you saw when you wrote it. For I have seen it too but could not put it so finely into words that describe. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
the promise of a day. . . or, the promises to come of a day. . . or, the promises failed of a day. . . excellent Reg. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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NewEnglandlazurlu Member Rara Avis
since 2002-01-04
Posts 7470A Mountain Paradise |
We are having one of those days here in Boston. The air is so yellow thick as we wait for potentially dangerous winds, thunderboomers and lightening. The arthritis in my hip is throbbing but we can always use the rain. ;-) I enjoyed this very much. Hugs, Marti " My wrinkles are badges of courage and reveal that I am a Mother." |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
(smiles) Yay!!! Oh my gosh, I know just how you feel, I too get soooo excited when a storm comes rolling in because we don't get alot of rain where we live, it's a desert out here in Denver, and the rain just makes me happy! (sigh) I love this, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Regina, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..." |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
enjoyed |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
RWood~ OH YES ! Wonderful ~ *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
Seymour: The aches and pains fall mainly when it rains. So sorry she knows it. Yes..you do. hug you! Janet: But if not for such perception.. You are wonderful to me Lady. Big hugs. Sunshine: You spread yellow ya know? Warm smile hugs. Lyra: I love rain too. Inspiring to inspire you Poetess. Thanks for you. Vas: Yes. When in tune..it is there. you can feel it all around you. Thank you for your most kind reply! Nancy: Static cling thoughts and thanks dear lady. Appreciate you hugs. jellybeans: You are so kind to me. Many thanks and hopefully your blue gray has a lot of yellow too..Hugs back~ Bob: I love the way you make my face wrinkle up on both sides with such few words. Dark: Can feel it. Smell it..taste it. Wish I could send some. Hugs darlin. Richard: I like storms. I suppose I could say that they teach me..that I'm never in control. Appreciate you poet. Martie: I hope heaven spills a rainshower perfect on Cali this week..but don't be disappointed if your weekend is soggy. Sloshy hugs! Passing Shadows: I really appreciate your thoughts. Big yellow smilies. Thanks bunches. Sven: Yes. All these things go through your mind when we pay attention. Hugs poet! Marti: Aww..I hope Arthur doesn't visit long. The rains do bring the pains. Warm hugs. Noah: You do need a drenching darlin. I do pray soon. Love and hugs. Vandana: Thank you hugs! Sincerely, Reg |
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