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LeeJ
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0 posted 2004-09-10 07:51 AM


Morning dress, waving a massive slow breath
Rummaging through a flea market of water colors
Decorating matron of sun meadows
Restless from her drowse, in a playground of light
Sure hands of morning pressing into mine
Etching autumn mosaics sneezing
Browns, reds, oranges

Inside this woman’s face there is a turn
Her eyes raise, with force cutting the air
From a lithography of great chutes opening
Writing an opera for the day
With a late luster in the sky
Becoming the skin of autumns grand piano
Cooler breezes playfully chasing away
The life work of summer music

Where did it go?
The air now crisp, fragrant...cool
Climbing for hours, the walkers of autumn color
Listen for air rising to delicious September soul

Milkweed pods are opening…floating
Into shorter days, fires of fall rolling on horizon
Sky hawks tugging the drift of melting bird songs
Scarecrows standing straight and tall
With a now painted smile
Knowing his work will soon be done
With mason jars now full
Children no longer in the fields
Autumn eyes behold, painting fall


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1 posted 2004-09-10 08:23 AM


WOW Lee....beauty in each line...

I don’t want the world to see me
cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s made to be broken I just want you to know who I am

miscellanea
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2 posted 2004-09-10 08:29 AM


You painted the awakening morning exquisitely, Lee!  You are such an artist.  I'm curious, do you sketch or paint?

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passing shadows
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3 posted 2004-09-10 01:00 PM


ah the death of a season, the birth of another...

so beautifully done

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