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1slick_lady
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standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2002-10-18 09:00 PM



Dixie’s Dreaming


brown canoed
I lay with you
telling lazy fishing lies
dip my toes
in the Mississippi
looking in your eyes
the warmest welcome
you could ever give is
caressed in shirts white cotton
easy making memories
from simple things
never to be forgotten
tying chicken legs
in a stringed basket
for blue crabs to troll
Dixie’s dreaming
and this is truly where
I wear my soul


Mississippi…I will always love you…best.

I’m not disappointed,  I never expected anything from you.

© Copyright 2002 Helen Chambers - All Rights Reserved
nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
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Between the Lines
1 posted 2002-10-18 09:19 PM


I enjoyed these thoughts..I love the blue crabs, very popular in these parts..but have never gone fishing...

*s
M

Bill Charles
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highways, & byways, for now
2 posted 2002-10-18 09:21 PM


helen - southern skies, summer nights are speaking tonight...

BC

regards2you
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since 2002-10-01
Posts 3940
California
3 posted 2002-10-18 09:37 PM


Helen,
You wrote this especially well, for I sit here and relax and sigh. Sounds like a wonderful place to be and the simplest things somehow always seem to stay in our minds, making memories.
Still swaying, just a tad, in that canoe, breathing in life. Mmmmmmmm.
Nice to get away for a minute.

Warm Regards,
Pat

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
        "Desiderata"

RMW
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4 posted 2002-10-22 06:01 PM


"Brown canoed...." Excellent. Very nicely done. Bob
Robert Adamson
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since 2002-10-21
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5 posted 2002-10-22 06:50 PM


I have no living experience in the South except a neighbor who's mother was from Georgia. The word I relate to is soft in order to describe her spoken words and mannerisms. I like your title to describe the South.

etoodog

S Arthur Grey
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since 2001-03-19
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woven by a poet's loom
6 posted 2002-10-22 08:04 PM


"brown canoed
I lay with you
telling lazy fishing lies"

quiet Mississippi romance . . .
and fishing too

how nice!

tell you what . . .
you bring the chicken legs and the basket, i'll bring the canoe . . .

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