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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2003-09-30 10:20 AM

The trees still drip rain from green
Though they are now in fade
With tinge of color showing
Along center veins and edges
That pretends to be unnoticed
As it slowly fades of life
To lie in eventual demise
On rugged stone
Or the litter of last years offering
Now crumbled into mulch.

I can sit here
Staring out at water
That licks its hungry lips
Against broken teeth
And sips the run off,
Swallowing once in a while
The early fallen
In an oyster slick slide
To the belly below
And remember the days of sun
Light tipped on wave
In a chant of refracted colors
That Gregorian soothed
The inner mind

But today it is acrid oak
From someone’s early fire
That takes me back to woodlots
Filled with split piles for winter
And to frost
That glimmered early in weak light
Then faded slow to brown

Long bent days
That curved into evening
With only a slight notice of curve
From begin to end
Spent piling high the splits
On which the comfort of winter
Was meant to depend.

I am older now

And innocence no longer
Colors my Falls
I know each piece of split heart
Burns from the life it had

Before

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2003-09-30 10:27 AM

Long bent days
That curved into evening
With only a slight notice of curve
From begin to end
Spent piling high the splits
On which the comfort of winter
Was meant to depend.

I am older now

And innocence no longer
Colors my Falls
I know each piece of split heart
Burns from the life it had

Before

~*~

Wistful smile...

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

2 posted 2003-09-30 10:51 AM

YES.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2003-09-30 10:56 AM

"I am older now

And innocence no longer
Colors my Falls
I know each piece of split heart
Burns from the life it had

Before"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yes...you are so right.
You always say it best.
~Soft Smiles~

~ I love your glances meeting mine
across forever or the room ~

QjQ
Member Elite

since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

4 posted 2003-09-30 11:09 AM

But today it is acrid oak
From someone’s early fire

enjoyed the lines

nice write

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

5 posted 2003-09-30 11:48 AM

"I am older now

And innocence no longer
Colors my Falls
I know each piece of split heart
Burns from the life it had

Before"

Please tell me this makes us better???

Love you Mr. Hair

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

6 posted 2003-09-30 12:05 PM

Well Dude, I had to open this just for the title.
(Cord wood is my life...Tra La, Tra La)

The only good thing about the recent flooding is the abundance of downed trees. (Some, already fractionated into managable pieces by the Utility Companies!)

A good bit of readin' here Ron.

Ed

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

7 posted 2003-09-30 12:12 PM

we are all older now

Edder
Senior Member

since 2003-04-02

Posts 671

8 posted 2003-09-30 12:44 PM

i don't know how you do it, but you always do. fantastic!

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

9 posted 2003-09-30 12:53 PM

as always an exceptional write/right
smiles & hugs, thank you for sharing

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

10 posted 2003-09-30 12:56 PM

Amazing!

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