Circles (lessons from shadows 3)

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Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

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0 posted 2004-02-18 06:33 PM

She bid me wait
Till sun in fall met the blue of hazed land
With shades of red
       That deeper grew to purple
Along the line where horizon lay

And side by side
   Our shadows grew
Mine longer then than hers
There came a blend
        And none could see
The place we blocked the sun
For something larger than us both
Had stepped between

She whispered me be still
While she pulled from pocket string
And began to lay it in a circle
Round behind to front
      The break tied in knotted ends

My mind remembered spells
   And circles drawn from them
To keep at bay the fears of dark
Or will of others
             Who sometimes stalked

The shiver began deep
     And I,rooted as I was
To this patch of ground
Felt below me too the swell of earth
And wondered if she was some mage
To cast on me revenge
         For all the weary days I lived
For all my mortal sins

She smiled
   And handed me a stick

“Stake the place where your shadow ends
and mine begins” she said.

“I can see no shadows there is no light.”
I replied

She laughed a kind crinkle of sound
“Can you see me?” she asked
as she saw me frown.

“yes” my answer came
for indeed light enough did remain

“Then tell me why you do not see my shadow
or yours?” In low voice she asked.

I simply shook my head as science ran
In rampant thought across my mind
But formed no words to speak

“Because,” she softly said
“we are lit from inside and
not blinded to this fact by an
unrelenting sun.”

“we have no shadows here?”
I asked.

Her laugh in fact
Haunts me still...

"our shadows in this circle lie"
she said,
"and we just lie within."

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2004-02-18 06:41 PM

Very nice...James

Martie

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2 posted 2004-02-18 06:42 PM

Ron

Mesmerized by this series.....thank you.

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

3 posted 2004-02-18 07:17 PM

these are all amazing, and i have taken it upon my self to print each one....heart hugssss

~~**~~
There are moments when speech
is but a mouth pressed lightly and
humbly against the angel's hands.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

4 posted 2004-02-18 07:23 PM

She bid me wait
Till sun in fall met the blue of hazed land
With shades of red
       That deeper grew to purple
Along the line where horizon lay

And side by side
   Our shadows grew
Mine longer then than hers
There came a blend
        And none could see
The place we blocked the sun
For something larger than us both
Had stepped between
==================

“Because,” she softly said
“we are lit from inside and
not blinded to this fact by an
unrelenting sun.”

=====================
"our shadows in this circle lie"
she said,
"and we just lie within."
=================

I read part 2 thinking part one's intensity couldnt be touched twice...then I read this one...

"Gads" I LOVE being wrong.

good grief...your muse is on fire...
burn baby burn

Well I cant say what I might believe ...
but if God made you ... he's in love with me.

5 for fighting

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

5 posted 2004-02-18 07:33 PM

so haunting, and yet compelling...excellent series...more? please...

Bill Charles
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since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

6 posted 2004-02-18 07:42 PM

Cpat Hair - enjoyed the writing....

BC

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

7 posted 2004-02-18 08:43 PM

This was great! Enjoyed the read, mucho!

jwesley

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

8 posted 2004-02-18 10:23 PM

“Because,” she softly said
“we are lit from inside and
not blinded to this fact by an
unrelenting sun.”

“we have no shadows here?”
I asked.

Her laugh in fact
Haunts me still...

"our shadows in this circle lie"
she said,
"and we just lie within."

Absolutely wonderfyl Ron

into my library it goes.

M

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

inkedgoddess
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since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

9 posted 2004-02-18 10:50 PM

and we just lie within

looked the look from the inside out here
or is from the outside in

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

10 posted 2004-02-19 07:57 AM

This series is fantastic Ron and the entire series has been tucked neatly into my library to return to.

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

11 posted 2004-02-19 08:37 AM

Her laugh in fact
Haunts me still...

"our shadows in this circle lie"
she said,
"and we just lie within."

~*~

I got a distinct image of pink mountains, and yellow skies...

I'm very much in like
with this new path...

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

12 posted 2004-02-19 01:33 PM

Thought I would give you this reply for all your support and sometimes annoying understanding of me.

"sit on top of the world and tell me how you feel...'cause what you feel is what I feel for you.."
~Dido~

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