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Sunshine
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0 posted 2002-06-26 02:28 PM



Spirit of The Owl


Winter's glen
gray dawn skies
no sun up in
early morn
heaven sighs

down the lane
tree lined but bare
mysteries unfold
you didn't know
were there

snow and ice
crunch underfoot
walking quiet is
impossible
trip on root

hidden in the deepest recesses of here and then
sleeps the spirit of the Owl, answering 'who' at when
a discord settles within to break his sleep
and from the recesses of his darkness deep
the spirit comes, and the Owl then keeps

the secret of all time, held in feathered wing
and in the most silenced of plume, sweeps off
no effort in movement, feathers outstretched
through naked limbs, through the breech
no sound, no blare, in feathered wing

silence overall, no hint of gray ghost on high
was it just a vision, or a spirit in the sky
silently it sat, as quietly was swept away
spirits come to the land in the early morn
while the eve still sleeps, before day is born

snow and ice
crunch underfoot
walking quiet is
impossible
trip on root

down the lane
tree lined but bare
mysteries unfold
you didn't know
were there

winter's glen
gray dawn skies
no sun up in
early morn
heaven sighs



©Karilea Rilling Jungel
11 September 2000



© Copyright 2002 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2002-06-26 03:29 PM


If I could frame it, I'd put it in a gallery.
I see your sun shines even in the winter.

Krishankins

your 100grit love is smoothing my soul

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2 posted 2002-06-26 03:36 PM


WOW!!  Thanks for posting this one again Karilea!
I hadn't seen this before..
I love the images...It's a...


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3 posted 2002-06-26 04:09 PM


ms sunshine, another late coffee day..
mmmm love owls...and this poem was a cool tribute to my hooter buddies


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4 posted 2002-06-26 07:58 PM




(smiles) Oh Karilea, this is soooooo beautiful, sweet friend, I love snow owls and I too find them to be very mysterious beautiful creatures! (sigh) I remember watching the movie Labyrinth and how the Goblin King represented the snow owl in animal form, it was a great movie! (sigh) This is excellent, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

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5 posted 2002-06-26 08:37 PM


This poem is so impossibly excellent that I don't have words for it, Karilea....
Right now, I also don't have a voice to say those words with....
But at least I can read...and I can write...
and I can tell you that I loved it.


~ hugs from a chipmunk who sounds like a frog


Lyra

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled"  Gwendolyn Brooks

[This message has been edited by Madame Chipmunk (06-26-2002 08:39 PM).]

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6 posted 2002-06-26 08:48 PM


This is quite a lovely poem from almost two
years ago...Thank You for bringing it up
and sharing with us...

Bridget Shenachie
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7 posted 2002-06-26 08:58 PM


Love your word paintings!

Shenachie

kayjay
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8 posted 2002-06-26 09:20 PM


Great profile of the secret delight
humans have at the slightly dangerous night.

In many Indian cultures, the owl is a harbinger of death.  "I heard the owl call my name" is a short but beautiful novel by Margaret Craven

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

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9 posted 2002-06-26 09:24 PM


Karilea

I not only wish I had seen this, but wish I had written this...Wonderful, wonderful!

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