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Perhaps Spring Is Only For The Pure Of Heart
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Perhaps Spring Is Only For The Pure Of Heart |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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What is it about Spring that scratches me where I don't itch? When I faced each day alone, for hire to the highest bidder, I was anything I chose to be, without seasons, seizing life each day, howling with demonic glee. Now life, and all its forms of soft renewal bursting out all around anywhere I turn, should do something to clear my head of Winter's smaller thoughts. I ought to be able to rejoice and shout the way new flowers do, saluting the same sun and sky they struggled through the overlays of earth to reach. The world is teaching and I find most days I still am sitting in the back, struggling with the overlays of all the petty garbage I let others pour on top of me. Why can I not be as free as when I faced each day alone, free as any one single joyful flower can achieve with purity? ©2004 by icebox |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I'm in the back too icebox... so watch out for spitballs! |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
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Kaoru
since 2003-06-07
Posts 3892where the wild flowers grow |
What a good question. |
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Kahlil Senior Member
since 2003-04-12
Posts 1881 |
...you are needed... ~K~ |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
This particular spring has given me a new sense of childlike freedom, unencumbered by distress and unchained by thoughts. Wish you could join me. Liz PS The dogwood is in FULL bloom as well as the purple and white lilacs side by side, and in a few days I'll have a magnificent display of white azeleas across the front |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Incidentally, I loved that opening verse |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
The internal rhyming and flow of the poem is worth reading over and over, not to mention the message. I feel the same way sometimes -- just when I think I've learned something, I get slapped on the hand and sent to first grade again! Thanks for this thoughtful write. |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
The world is teaching and I find most days I still am sitting in the back, struggling with the overlays of all the petty garbage I let others pour on top of me. you crawl into my head and take the thoughts I haven't been able to write or express..thanks |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox I think that flowers only live for the day of blooming, forgetting the struggle it was to find nourishment and the strength to push up....so I guess to learn from them is the trick...not easy to forget the past though.  |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
Beautifully done. Smashing ending too. Nan (Pilgrim variety) |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Those who ask like you do, always learn. The purity of the soul is safe even under tons of garbage. This is very beautiful and thought provoking. Love, Margherita |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Come walk by the spring with me... we'll let the tones ring clear and free. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
I don't think "free" is a synonym for "alone"..is it? I don't think anyone can express the thoughts you do so well..  "cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
I don't know if there is an answer to this.. just take it one day at a time. Loved this one... Hugs~ ~ Lost in you, I found myself. ~ |
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