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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2005-01-16 08:02 PM

Wolf

Winter’s expanse hears lone wolf cry
And white these tracks that seek the moon
This is not the season of sighs
Winter’s expanse hears lone wolf cry
O ancients, still wondering why
That truths vanish with loss of loon
Winter’s expanse hears lone wolf cry
And white these tracks that seek the moon

~*~

Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen? Keeping in mind, I must stand close...and keep my promises...
[This message has been edited by Sunshine (01-16-2005 10:04 PM).]

ThisDiamond
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1 posted 2005-01-16 08:07 PM

Pretty and powerful...in a neat little package. Enjoyed as always of your writes.
TD

Dark Stranger
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2 posted 2005-01-17 08:51 AM

enjoyed this animal
in stil life capture

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3 posted 2005-01-17 09:34 AM

I know a place...where such a creature waits...and you may meet her at any time, daylight or dark, there by the back gate...relentlessly guarding. Such a creature, and yet...not.

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Magnus

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4 posted 2005-01-17 09:39 AM

Let's see, three of my favorites...a woman,
a wolf, a loon...where is the eagle? Hmmmm,
all make for mystical and magical poetry.

Poetry such as this......

LeeJ
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5 posted 2005-01-17 10:21 AM

all these things bring forth feelings of winter, or a lost lover...or simply the lonely of a wolf cry....

Tremendous

Robert Frazier
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6 posted 2005-01-17 10:49 AM

"Winter’s expanse hears lone wolf cry
And white these tracks that seek the moon"

this speaks straight to my melancholy, romantic sensibilities . . . and i love it! actually, i think it's quite simply brilliant.

Rf

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7 posted 2005-01-17 11:16 AM

You have written many words that have become very endeared to me...

this....

this is my favorite.

The greatest beauty on earth, is
found in the hearts of those
who love....

Martie

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8 posted 2005-01-17 12:27 PM

Sissie

A sensitive and wise poem!

ice
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9 posted 2005-01-17 09:58 PM

"This is not the season of sighs"

So true, Karilea....it is the season of howling..I am alive, I am alive at the moon...(odd, but I have done that...in a blinding white-out snow squall.....like Sandburg said...

THERE is a wolf in me ... fangs pointed for tearing gashes ... a red tongue for raw meat ... and the hot lapping of blood--I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
(Carl Sandburg- excerpt from "Wilderness")

And he was right..."the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go."

And what better time than Winter to howl and follow the white tracks?

"O ancients, still wondering why
That truths vanish with loss of loon"

Why should they wonder?..."the wilderness gave it to (them) me and the wilderness will not let it go."

The "truths" did not vanish, neither is the "loon" lost...They have always resided within...and still do.

The wolf totem represents to me the epitome of maleness (Is this a sexist thought?)...It can be terribly vicious when need be, in defense of its pack and family...to which it is loveable and loyal...(I have read that the wolf bitch also demonstrates this same conduct, but rarely is it as strongly displayed as in the alpha male)

Perhaps this poem was meant to tell a different story, but these are the thoughts that came to me as I read it...

A thought provoking poem....Thank you for writing it... Love the form.

______________ford
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Magnus...
Sandburg also wrote of the eagle in his poem...

"There is an eagle in me .....
... and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want ... "

passing shadows
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10 posted 2005-01-17 10:04 PM

stunning!

Aenimal
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11 posted 2005-01-17 10:12 PM

beautiful karilea

MGROVES

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12 posted 2005-01-18 03:17 AM

yes beautiful georgous picture. brought back memories of my bear, wolf and shepard mixed, he comes to me now and then to let me know he still protects me even from the othe side. along with what else the night brings for me to see and hear

thanks your words are always a welcome pleasure

Dark Angel
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13 posted 2005-01-18 04:33 AM

Very beautiful Kari

M xx

all I can taste is this moment, all I can breathe is your life, cause sooner or later it's over, I just don't want to miss you tonight.~GooGooDolls~

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