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Sunshine
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0 posted 2005-04-13 09:38 PM





Rainer Sits My Shadow

Rainer sits my shadow
holding tender my thoughts in his
indescribable poet’s hands.

I did not know him
at first,
though, luckily, a fellow poet
introduced us,
and through the introduction,
he visits me now,
often,
so I asked his ghost to converse,
in an easy sort of way,
of what was,
and perhaps, what will be.

He sat, silently, almost
broodingly, his hooded brows over
dark eyes, his blood conveying
silent thoughts that only my Quill
could hear…

and then Quill spilled, like tears,
Rainer’s psyche into my soul…

Of all that has always been,
inside my mind
that aches to be released,
the knowledge that what lines unleashed
are never enough,

that a poet never says, this is adequate,
but reaches once again
for the unsayable
to find a way
to verse it just so…

that a poet experiments with all feelings,
in all writings,
in all ways

with every breath…

and he transmits
that a poet does not, no, never does
he, no, not once

stop writing,
for to do so, would be to
give up on light,
and feathers, it would be to
quit believing
in awe-inspirational shadows
that speak
to poets

in the quiet
through their quill
to their soul

or that shadows believe
in the unsayable.

~*~


A repost, yes,
for a woman who reminds me,
often, that the lives we lead
will ripple into someone's future...

with serenity.

© Copyright 2005 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2005-04-13 09:46 PM


Yes indeed...love this.
And with a very special person in mind.
Hugs~N.

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul

Martie
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2 posted 2005-04-13 09:53 PM


sissie...repost any time...all of yours are so good, and this is one of my favorites.  Plus, you doing it means it's ok for me to do it.  Right?  
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3 posted 2005-04-13 10:22 PM


Nancy...yes...a very special person...

and Martie?  Absolutely, dear, because I try to keep up with YOU...and your remarkable, which is oftimes, unsayable...

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4 posted 2005-04-13 10:52 PM


in the quiet
through their quill
to their soul

Yes...oh my yes!!! Awesome. hugs, Chris

"The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze."
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

ice
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5 posted 2005-04-14 05:38 AM



"the knowledge that what lines unleashed
are never enough,..."

"that a poet never says, this is adequate,"

That's it, that is the sum of it...

For these reasons, I write poetry...

Becuase verse is never truely finished, and that subjects brought to life by language add continuity to my own.

Well done, Karilea
I enjoyed the whole poem, but the lines quoted came from the most profound stanzas,
(IMO)

----------ice/ford
  ><>

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6 posted 2005-04-14 06:39 AM


Your yesses are smiling, Chris...

and ice? This particular poem is a favorite of mine, as it sits in Reflections among so many favored poets...and because Rainer hit a chord within me when I was introduced to him, and doesn't seem to want to leave me. I don't mind...sometimes I even imagine I hear his voice, and there's no way [that most would believe] that I could have ever known his voice...

I'm glad you enjoyed.  Thank you!

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7 posted 2005-04-14 07:31 AM


I am so very glad you brought this back in today...
it is one of my favorites.  

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8 posted 2005-04-14 10:10 AM



bernie

A smile a day keeps the world in smile's.
Bernie Slicker

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9 posted 2005-04-14 11:06 AM


that a poet never says, this is adequate,
but reaches once again
for the unsayable
to find a way
to verse it just so…


Just so!

How absolutely captivating this poem is!

Love, Margherita

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10 posted 2005-04-14 12:16 PM


and we end the poem only so that we can begin again . . .

e

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11 posted 2005-04-14 01:27 PM


oh yes
I remember this
and love it still

kayjay
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12 posted 2005-04-15 01:36 PM


I like to hear the linking of thoughts with others that pervades many of your poems.  It is such a pleasure to read you.  KJ

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

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13 posted 2005-04-15 01:45 PM


Thank you, Karilea, for the repost of this gem of a write...

Regards
sudhir

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14 posted 2005-04-15 01:46 PM


And you write of the world and the world writes of you

You have a quality that transcends

Dave

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15 posted 2005-04-15 02:03 PM


Rainer sounds like a mountain of a man...a very wise fellow indeed.

The two of you make a very good pair....this is excellent writing..

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16 posted 2005-04-16 05:46 PM


Nice...james
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17 posted 2005-04-16 08:01 PM


smiling softly, this is beautiful Kari. Well Done!

Mxx

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~Buckingham/Nicks

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18 posted 2005-04-16 08:19 PM


Such elegance beholds your heart Kar.
TD

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