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bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2002-10-22 02:35 PM

Build a fire and its bed.
Set the warming wood aglow.
At the crack of dry and limb.
Orange curling yellow flames.
Smoke is rising over snow,
breaking shadows on the stand.
Rilling glass and heating stone.
Mark of char. Now edge the coal.

Layer light in draping wraps.
Cross the cold and list its snap.
Break open a griddle egg.
Run the toast in buttered path.
Lift the sun in gentle fry,
turn it over on its eye.
Sipping coffee and its dregs.
Watch the fire. Build its bed.

[This message has been edited by bsquirrel (10-22-2002 02:36 PM).]

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

1 posted 2002-10-22 02:39 PM

you are writing enchantment again Mike.

deliciously rhythmic...has the feel of fire gazing captured here.

you witch-poet, you!

I truly adore this'n...

the symbolism is startling and makes me smile secret smiles.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2002-10-22 02:51 PM

Thank you, Serenity. I'm feeling much better today than yesterday, and I guess this poem is showing that.

The poem is also showing, I don't belong in California.

Sheesh, I'm starting to long for snow ....

Thanks for bein' such an awesome friend, Karen.

Mike (now without goatee)

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2002-11-05 03:53 AM

this is something I miss...long ago memories back tonight...thanks.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

4 posted 2002-11-05 08:27 AM

Build a fire and its bed.
Set the warming wood aglow.
At the crack of dry and limb.
Orange curling yellow flames.
Smoke is rising over snow,
breaking shadows on the stand.
Rilling glass and heating stone.
Mark of char. Now edge the coal.
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Ahhhh....what you do with imagery is just so cool...and this one warms at the same time.
Where is Lori-girl these days..haven't seen her post in awhile...working too hard?
So when ya going to Canada anyway???
Arent I a nosey moth LOL

Oh well..tell her I said hey.

No one has ever shown me how to see the world the way I see it now ...
and I never saw blue like that before.

~Tom Kimmel~

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2002-11-05 11:48 AM

Aha...you do know you managed to use my maiden name in this piece...

and you got the BIGGEST grin!

Very nice. Very nice, indeed!

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

6 posted 2002-11-05 12:10 PM

Thank you, passing shadows. Those are memories for me, too.

Janet, thanks for enjoying this little poem. Lori no longer posts here, and as you've seen, my schedule for showing up here is much diminished. Change sucks.

Karilea, I did? Hmm ... the only word that sticks out here as a possible name would be Rilling. Really? Cool!

Mikey

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