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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA 
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Meandering long country paths aside, Lush fragrance hallows summer's sweet ascent. Festoons of lilacs breathe of heaven's scent Midst fingered breadth of weeping willows bide. Unfettered fronds enchant a flowered tide Like choirs of angels boughing in descent, In harmonies with primrose breeze content To stave travails duress has oft decried. Securely held within maternal arms, In tiers the willow only seems to weep. Embraced as swaddling babe in rhythmic sway Bouquets of lilac meld to willow's charms. Once nestled in her heart's protective keep Remembrances for fragrant winter's day.  |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
(smiles) Yay!!! Oh my gosh, this is most perfect for the coming of spring, dearest friend, I can almost see the lilacs reading this, yay, this is most illustrious, you have my solstice vote, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Nan, thank you for sharing!  May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton "Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..." Shakira [This message has been edited by Ron (03-24-2003 04:39 AM).] |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Ooooh Nan! How could one not vote for this beautiful spring piece! Yes indeed...this does belong in Reflections! ~Hugs~ |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Nan...exquisite!!!! |
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Chanson Senior Member
since 2000-08-19
Posts 1559Up Creek w/Out Paddle |
This is beautiful, Nan. It's so springish, refreshing, and I hold great childhood memories of hours of fun playing in the weeping willow tree at home with my brothers. *s When you think you have heard it all, |
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Greeneyes 
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
quote: Nan~ this is most beautiful, and softly reminded me of my grandmother, her favorite season was spring.....when all the flowers would bloom....thanks for this.... ~~~~~~~ hugsss Lauren~ I close my eyes and there in the shadows I see your light |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
I recall that fragrance well. It is my favorite! Excellent write...voting now.  If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. |
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Miah Senior Member
since 2002-08-26
Posts 1062Pennsylvania |
This is a wonderful sonnet! Your words brought a fresh breeze of spring and also my vote! |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Thanks, my friends... A breath of fresh air just seemed like it would be a good thing for all of us...  |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Beautiful, Nan. Seems like I can smell the fresh air and flowers. I'm voting. Hugs, Ethel |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Beautiful! Gets my vote, hands down. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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jjote Senior Member
since 2002-12-25
Posts 1088Ontario, Canada |
Love this, and all the others you've wrote. (here goes another one of my collection of "Nan" poems) Voting.. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Absolutely gorgeous Nan! You have my vote |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
You're one of the finest poets I know Nan. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Remembered and voted for |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
This speaks to the inner --and outer!--me. A truly beautiful piece of poetry... Warm hugs, EA |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Where's my vote...?  OH! Here it is!  |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Fantastic, Nan! This is the springtime like I've never experienced it. You should come stay at my place for a week or so, in the springtime, and see what it's like in Winnipeg... I've tried writing about patches of dead grass and filthy brown snow all over the streets, and ruining pairs of good jeans by walking pretty much anywhere and getting mud and gunk all over yourself. I haven't seen a single flower so far. And the trees are still naked.  Yours sounds so much nicer! hehe... Now of COURSE I'm going to vote for this, nanner... you think you could write a brilliant sonnet such as this one and not find it in the book? I hope it gets in, even if it's your third submission (if I count right). This is my favourite of your submissions so far. I've never really doubted your talent for a second. I'll just check three boxes now and hit "Submit."Parasite "Faith" means the will to avoid knowing what is true. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Nan~ Could easily wrest it's way to the top of my 'favorites' list from you~ *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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NewEnglandlazurlu Member Rara Avis
since 2002-01-04
Posts 7470A Mountain Paradise |
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful and I applaud and bow to you my friend. This was a delight to read. Spring will get here and we will forget this dreadfully long winter. Hugs and hope to see you soon, Marti Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. A.Einstein |
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Flower Member
since 2003-03-15
Posts 240California |
You use such beautiful words and phrases, I had to vote for this one. Love reading all these great writes. |
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Charisma
since 2000-09-30
Posts 5906lost in blue pages |
Reading you is always a treat Charisma |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
so descriptive i almost sneezed lovely poem Nan hope you are well JThere is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Festoons of lilacs breathe of heaven's scent Midst fingered breadth of weeping willows bide. Unfettered fronds enchant a flowered tide Like choirs of angels boughing in descent, In harmonies with primrose breeze content To stave travails duress has oft decried. ================================= Ahhh yes...when Nan posts a sonnet.. the moth will be on it wonderful lacing of rhyme, vocab and imagery, this was pure poetry when read aloud. Midst fingered breadth of weeping willows bide. Unfettered fronds enchant a flowered tide whoa..that couplet is cooler that a mere moth has words for!! Lovely Nan...truly lovely. "and when we get to the pearly gates ... |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Gorgeous! What a beautiful picture this created in my mind's eye! Definitely one for the book! |
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skyshine
since 2002-02-07
Posts 3058Beneath the northern stars |
I love spring, and especially the scent of lilacs. This was beuatiful Nan!  ~Liz Waited on a line of greens and blues, just to be the next to be with you.. |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Ahhhh ... this was so lovely Nan. Such a beautiful flow, with a wistful sense of remembrance and reflection. A wonderful submission for the book, indeed - you pen Sonnets to perfection, my friend. Best wishes and hugs, /Kit |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
yes...my vote.. and my appreciation for the beauty you have woven into this. |
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Jeffrey Carter
since 2000-04-08
Posts 2367State of constant confusion! |
I'm thinking this should be the first poem in the book, since it "reflects" spring so darn well  |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Beautiful and pensive. |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
Yep, yep, yep...I do love it. So glad you thought to submit this one. "...until you have read the verse on his heart, |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
This is one of those poems that beguile me... I could read it over and over again and be left smiling every time. *S* But I had to stop reading long enough to vote. *S* |
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BSC
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Member Elite
since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
Oh my Nan ~ What lovely images are floating through my mind ~ and I swear I can smell the lilacs ~ I can't tell you how much I appreciate this. Bonnie |
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waldopepper Member
since 2003-03-18
Posts 157Tennessee, USA |
Absolutely gorgeous sonnet Nancy. The form is impeccable and the choice of imagery captivating. Leaves me breathless my friend. |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Nan~ As always your words paint a Perfect picture for us too enjoy...Paul "To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you" |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Nan~ As always, your words paint a perfect picture. Thanks for sharing...Paul "To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you" |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Nan, this is purely beautiful. Sandra |
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Alicethruglass Member
since 2001-06-19
Posts 368 |
I cannot wait for my Lilacs and Willows and Forsythia to bloom what a pretty picture you painted *s ~A~ |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
A most beautiful and uplifting sonnet...of course you have my vote Melissa~ |
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Magicmystery Senior Member
since 2002-02-13
Posts 821Windsor, Ontario, Canada |
~Nan~  I could almost smell the sweet frangance of flowers up here in Toronto.... even though this place still looks alot like Parasite's Winnipeg.... Yuck!!! A beautiful poem to welcome spring by... a must for the book.Sherry Cherish the good memories of the past and look forward to the adventure called Tomorrow. But above all... be kind to yourself today. |
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sweetwater Member
since 2002-12-16
Posts 178Perth |
Everyone has said what I'm thinking, so I'll just vote and send you a smile |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Every year I go to as many Botanical Gardens as I can and am fortunate to have a few choices very near to home. One of the reasons I love to go can be something you expressed in the following lines : ***************************** Festoons of lilacs breathe of heaven's scent Midst fingered breadth of weeping willows bide. Unfettered fronds enchant a flowered tide Like choirs of angels boughing in descent, ***************************** A beautiful sonnet indeed and I proudly cast my vote with my hand raised high in the air. I truely loved the this one. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Mark certainly picked the part that you wrote where it could only be a lilac! These lines truly tugged at my heart, and held me there in a place of reverance for some reason: Once nestled in her heart's protective keep Remembrances for fragrant winter's day. This whole poem was like a special planting of love that was almost celestial in nature, but your writing makes it that way I am sure. Well Nan, I sure read this ooem in awe, for when a sonnet is written with such perfection all you can do is smile and sigh, and probably just give you a  in appreciation of how you work your craft. |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
This is what poetry is all about and should be in our book. Joyce |
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