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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2003-06-09 11:35 AM

I think I need to quit
listening to the golden oldies
because I know all of the words
and that loving feeling is
gone, gone, gone,

and crying comes too easy

and when he bought
this diamond ring
I truly believed it would
always make me sing

and the longest hour
is just before dawn
but somehow I’m up
and struggle on

(you aren’t supposed to know
that all of sunshine’s rays
comes from the poets
for whom she prays)

and then the saffron song
crosses air waves
and yellow is the color
of the day,
mellowing the mood
making it all once again good

and one two three
falling in love can be too easy
was too easy way back then
discretion would now be
worthy of pen

see how the song
takes the brain right along

and eyes cry
and arms long
and hurt is hurting all over
and bam back to the bottom again

so I shall sit
and let the songs play
and let my moods take
on the up and down
of their way
for if I were to turn
it off
off
then the silence
would be deafening
and I might miss
the right silent song
and Paul, he would
never forgive me
for losing out on
reminiscing with him
of how it was

but I may just change
the station to country-western
or maybe classics
if they keep singing
about crying
and lying
and tears
and fears

but am stopped
before dial is turned
by a beautiful morning….

and a dancing queen...

nakdthoughts
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Between the Lines

1 posted 2003-06-09 11:52 AM

had me going for awhile..and then really had me going

M

AniKay83
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2 posted 2003-06-09 11:55 AM

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so I shall sit
and let the songs play
and let my moods take
on the up and down
of their way
for if I were to turn
it off
off
then the silence
would be deafening
and I might miss
the right silent song
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very cool... if I were a song, I'd be a Beatle's song (though I couldn't choose which)
Just made me think of that...

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unwindyormind
VIVA LA FUNK!!!

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

3 posted 2003-06-09 11:59 AM

Loved this from the first song Karilea!
Then when I got to Dancing Queen...well, I had goosebumps!
Great write...thanks for the remember.

~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2003-06-09 12:10 PM

Karilea,
The word that comes to mind is elegant,

Earth Angel
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Realms of Light

5 posted 2003-06-09 12:16 PM

I think you just wrote a country song!--and very well at that!

Keep on writing your songs! Whatever the style or theme, I love them all!

Huggums,
Linda

Martie

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6 posted 2003-06-09 12:43 PM

Karilea....again you brought back those memories...and funny how now in the looking back, they are good ones.

passing shadows
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displaced

7 posted 2003-06-09 12:56 PM

serenity blaze
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8 posted 2003-06-09 06:26 PM

aw...ya thought of me?

I'd thought of this guy named "Iman..."

Hugs you!

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9 posted 2003-06-09 06:43 PM

very nice write/read....

Poetry is a vision that portrays ones impressions.QjQ

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10 posted 2003-06-09 07:18 PM

I love this...I have to wonder if Maggie Mae jolted something here (this is a repost, right?) I do the crying thing, too, Sunshine. It doesn't necessarily have to be a golden oldie either. It just seems that I can find something in me in every song I hear...ah sort of like Passions Poetry... a piece of me in everything I read? Does that make me self-centered? LOL

Wonderful Write!
Patricia

littlewing
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11 posted 2003-06-09 07:34 PM

Kari - I do this all the time . . .
why? you know why? The sad songs make me feel better somehow . . .

This is stunning - you brought me up and down and was going to cry then you made me smile . . .

amazing
xxoo

Larry C

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12 posted 2003-06-09 10:51 PM

Karilea,
I was reading this at work and had to come back to finish it! No...not the classical.

I love this write.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Bill Charles
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highways, & byways, for now

13 posted 2003-06-09 11:51 PM

Sunshine - now don't you go and stop listening to those golden oldies. Where would we be without them?

BC

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14 posted 2003-06-10 01:20 AM

Almost all the good words have been said about this...but I found a nostalgic writer, still influenced by times past. Neat write. Ken

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

brian sites
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15 posted 2003-06-10 01:37 AM

the day
plays
whatever YOU
choose

slice o life
sun
grinning

Goldenrose
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16 posted 2003-06-10 06:28 AM

very good writing, thank you for sharing it...rose.

Dark Angel
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17 posted 2003-06-10 07:23 AM

This is great my sunshinygirl

and "Dancing Queen" yup one of my favourites.

hugs
Maree

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18 posted 2003-06-10 07:32 AM

Karilea, I like the golden oldies, too...mainly soft rock now, though...Enya, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Michael Bolton, Phil Collins......

Thanks for sharing your music with us, sweet friend.

Hugs

Ethel

Rick
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19 posted 2003-06-10 09:37 AM

Dear Sunshine, your words have sang their song to me tonight and the station here I would never divert from, there are so many melodies made from the heart and soul. Enjoy Dancing queen and thank you for sharing your thoughts here and your time.
Take care my friend and goodnight.

Sincerely
Rick

NewEnglandlazurlu
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A Mountain Paradise

20 posted 2003-06-10 09:44 AM

Karilea, I'm dancin' and prancin' in my bobbi socks with my mouse this morning. What a fabulous piece and thanks for the memories!

Huggles

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. A.Einstein

Nightshade

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just out of reach

21 posted 2003-06-10 10:05 AM

Karilea,sister of my heart.....I am keeping this to read and remember on days when I am feeling low and need a little nostalgic boost. Wonderful. hugs, Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....

-Emily Dickinson

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