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0 posted 2005-10-06 09:56 AM


bird
huddled in
smoke

where
will she
go

without
a sky?

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just out of reach
1 posted 2005-10-06 10:03 AM


Oh, Ed, I had never thought of a brush fire this way before! How sad.
I am tucking this brilliant little piece into my library. hugs, Chris

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

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2 posted 2005-10-06 10:04 AM


Where, indeed? It takes so little to make us lose all direction and be stymied... even when to sit still is to surely perish.

This is magnificent, my friend... you write just a few words... but in them lies so many stories... Beautiful!!!


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3 posted 2005-10-06 10:39 AM


Ratleader
I have to agree with Suthern.

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4 posted 2005-10-06 11:15 AM


Ed....Perhaps birds understand that somewhere there is always sky.  Faith!  
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5 posted 2005-10-06 11:24 AM


Ed~
I think you'd have to know that this touches the critter-sitter in me~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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let me know when it is LOVE that I find*~ <))><

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6 posted 2005-10-06 11:39 AM


this is so sad it makes me want to cry !thanks for sharing this excellent piece

-may the force be with you in poetry

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