Midnight Walk in Battle Creek - with a curtsey to the north....

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Sunshine

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0 posted 2003-12-15 09:14 AM

Midnight Walk in Battle Creek

Night and darkness shadowed in
as heavy gray clouds felt of snow
quiet is the air, and thin,
awaiting Mother Nature’s show

O the beauty of a night first born,
a Michigan town, Battle Creek
smells of grape nuts in early morn
for these are memories I would keep.

Company had come by that night,
good times were had by all,
then it soon chimed, 'twas midnight
and snow had begun to fall

Twenty miles east of Kalamazoo
Battle Creek quietly resides,
Kalamazoo has great winds, true,
off Michigan’s great lake side

Battle Creek is a different town,
as quiet reigns over the snow,
instead of drifts and shifting hills
the white just chooses to grow.

Midnight walks on streets of white
a wondrous treat in its own,
this is when magic begins, and
why we believe in cherrystones.

Did you know that snow has song?
It's heard when winds don’t blow,
crystalline tinkling is taken to heart
and snow fairies softly glow ~

I know for we stood, quiet, still,
heard chiming tings softly surround
no one spoke, but shyly descried
as snow came twinkling down.

O Battle Creek of Michigan,
someday I’ll come to visit again.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
29 September, 2000
revised
15 December 2003
Photograph courtesy of PiP

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

1 posted 2003-12-15 09:22 AM

Beautiful Karilea...you have penned it perfectly.
And, if and when, you go to visit once again..
I'm just a hop, skip and a jump away.

Love ya lady~

~Let peace begin with me...

LngJhnAg
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Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion

2 posted 2003-12-15 10:19 AM

Come to Washington, DC and write about it, too, Karilea.

Your poem was beautiful.

EvocativeVerse2
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3 posted 2003-12-15 11:40 AM

Love this. Been to Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. Home may be Iowa now...but I was born in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada and I cut through Michigan on those rare visits back to see family and friends. You paint the images very well Sunshine. Wonderfully done.

Remember, if you're not part of the future, you're history!

Ericc
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4 posted 2003-12-15 08:07 PM

Your descriptive powers are only surpassed by the beauty in which you use them.

Eric

Titia Geertman
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5 posted 2003-12-15 08:26 PM

And now you made me homesick for the States again. Oh dear how I miss the train ride to Florida and all the places I visited, beautiful Pensylvania, I still envy Nan, living so close to the ocean.

I know, I have to get back there before my time's up.

Such a beautiful write Karilea.

Titia

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6 posted 2003-12-15 09:22 PM

Did you know that snow has song?
It's heard when winds don’t blow,
crystalline tinkling is taken to heart
and snow fairies softly glow ~

You're right! Thanks for sharing Battle Creek with us.
Sadelite

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7 posted 2003-12-15 09:27 PM

Did you know that snow has song?
It's heard when winds don’t blow,
crystalline tinkling is taken to heart
and snow fairies softly glow''''

The image of this....oh Karilea....what beauty this beholds......

Lauren~

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