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Lady In White

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since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

0 posted 2004-10-29 10:24 AM

Decades have disappeared in ruts
since the
first warming

                 I visit the deck, ’neath
                 shade of awning, a chair
                 comfortably accepting me
                 in review of shadowed thoughts,
                 alone, here, on break of
                 summer’s gleam

                   as words sit gently
                   by way of his book,

                   he taught me of searching
                   north, then south
                   and when he looked north,
                   then caught the curve
                   and carve of the red woulds

                   found himself at the ivory
                   columns of welcome

so entered there, to a fountain of
youth in remembrance

Visions of what was then
brings back that first long ago
flush
and my temperature rises
slightly with the noon

his tutelage was kind and slow
good and southerly
he traveled abroad but always
took me with him, he
traveled light

                   sun meets my face as the awning
                   is pushed about by
                   prairie winds which have played with time
                   and now, warms again…

actions which speak louder
than any word he ever
wrote

                   my eyes, closed to open of
                   what is to come?
                   That I might then

                   warm a poet

                   in kind.

~*~

With sincere appreciation
for the help in rewriting
a favorite of mine.

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

1 posted 2004-10-29 10:25 AM

oh....whispering....
yes....
oh yes....

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

2 posted 2004-10-29 10:38 AM

ahhhh, yes, this heart is cooing
now please, more of this rich flow
amazing!

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

3 posted 2004-10-29 11:17 AM

It is nice to see you here again! Well done. KJ

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2004-10-29 11:21 AM

awesome!

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2004-10-29 11:55 AM

Lady

"sun meets my face as the awning
                   is pushed about by
                   prairie winds which have played with time
                   and now, warms again…"

It seems that it is just this that you have done with this poem.  Lovely!

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