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Open Poetry #33

I Am South

1slick_lady
Member Ascendant

since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

0 posted 2004-07-20 10:56 AM

I Am South

I love the Mississippi
it’s muddy water travels
comfortably in my blood
my skin is tender cotton
a white harvest on green
where honeysuckle clings
to a sultry night in the delta
if you want
you can find me if you
connect the lightening bugs
to a saltwater taffy county fair
simple complexity in cream lace
a contradiction of place and time
woven of pines and magnolias
a structure intricately tangled
in a mannerly past and present
to no matter where it is I am
I am south

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2004-07-20 11:01 AM

and from the south comes grace..

very nice Helen...

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2004-07-20 12:02 PM

yeppers! me too!

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2004-07-21 01:08 PM

a contradiction of place and time
woven of pines and magnolias

And I love it... in spite of the heat, humidity, mosquitos and reptiles! LOL

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

4 posted 2004-07-21 01:26 PM

Very picturesque poetry! Great write.

JL

She said: ”You look cute in the dark.”

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

5 posted 2004-07-21 01:43 PM

country fair
with all the goodies
stuck on noses
of little kids
with smiles
and too big teeth

oh and perfume too

dang nice slice of pie I'd say

kewl stuff

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