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Asian Rain
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0 posted 2003-10-25 11:12 AM



At end of day
in the gathering dark
can you sing the sun
into trembling light

Can you run
with an evening star
tied to a kite string
or skip a stone moon
across a night pond

Tea in a kettle
bread in your pocket
honeys the penny
paid at sundown

Your summers are licorice
your springs false tears
and autumn your broken
wing of inheritance

Winters are cartwheels
impossibly white
snowmen the milk teeth
under your pillow

Your days are left weeping
on a mothers wool shawl
sorrowful tears
to any mans eye

Sing little canary
sing to the night
and the coal black earth

How many pennies
for a day of your life

(for the children who worked the mines
and the thirteen waiting for Light)


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Gaia
1 posted 2003-10-25 12:05 PM


BRAVO!
a keeper

coyote
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2 posted 2003-10-25 07:23 PM


May the grace of a merciful God,
bless you for remembering.

Again, this is poetry.

coyote 8)

"Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead,

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