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Exilharation |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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EXHILARATION August 1999 Even the dull can marvel at tornadoes, sportsmen and fast cars. Have you sensed the tumult of a drowning fly? Or sped up your vision to see the colours of a butterfly between wing movements? Or been stunned by the liquid elegance of a snake flowing through the grass? Have you fine-tuned your ear to the minstrelsy of the spoken word or been swept away by a musical passage? Or been haunted by a painting? Or the texture of material, or the bark of a tree? Have you really smelled a Crimson Glory? Have you let it’s sweetness permeate your lungs and nestle in your olfactory memory to recall at will over and over again? What happens when ice-cream slithers down your throat? Do you only taste it or do all your senses shout? It is not the adventurous who continually need to seek thrills and spills and Everests to climb. It is those whose senses are dead. For those with abundant life, the world around is screaming its excitement. - Owl |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
OH Diana! This is a wonderful write! Everyone should use all their senses to enjoy life to the fullest! When certain enjoyments give me a special thrill, I put them in my 'memory bank' to pull out and relive time and time again. This is indeed a keeper! Hugs, Nancy ~ Trace my body with your words, |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Diana....how did you do that? Say exilharation just right about so many things...I just love this poem!  |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
hey does enjoying a dandelion count? loved this exhilarating write |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Nancy. What a lovely idea! A memory bank! Thank you, Martie. I nearly added this to my email, but I just knew you would find it here! - Owl |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
A stunning write, Diana! The "world around" is indeed a beautiful place but perhaps not many bother to stop and really look. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Oops, Kacy! You must have replied while I was replying to Nancy and Martie. Oh, YES! Enjoying a dandelion (or a dandy lion!) counts! Most deffffffffffffinitely! - Owl |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Oops, Helen! You must have replied while I was replying to Kacy! Thanks. Yes, it's a pity that so few notice! - Owl |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
The most simple of things can exhilarate those who care to experience a moment with their senses... and you've done a fine job in reminding us to stop... look, touch, listen... and all of the other sensations will soon follow... Well done, m'dear. |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
What a delight this one is Diana. True excitement! Thank you. |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
We take so many wonderful things for granted. Have you ever just sat silently in a flower patch watching a bee gather nectar? Calmly Exilharating!  hugs, Chris Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
wow! I have no words...outstanding write |
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Rainbowdust Member
since 2002-12-05
Posts 320Sydney, Australia |
Gorgeous.. thank you for the reminder! The soul would have no rainbows, had the eyes no tears. |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
this was beautiful...although, I gotta say, I can't find any beauty in a snake...and I know I'm the one missing out...but truly fear them... anyway, what a delightful read... |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
...SAVED!!!! faster than you can say "Exhilaration"!!!! Diana, not only are you as wise as an owl, you soar like one as well!  This truly was an up-lifting read of a right write! You have the vision, the spirit, the heart, and the eyes of a true poet!  Thoroughly enjoyed your exquisite penning! Hugs with love, Linda  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Karilea, Kate, Chris, Dixie, Rainbowdust, Lee and Earth Angel. I am glad you all enjoyed it. It's my pleasure, Kate and Rainbowdust. No, I haven't, Chris, but I can imagine the excitement. I have watched sunbirds sipping nectar from a tree just outside my lounge window, but it must be so much more exilharating watching a tiny bee doing the same, especially if you are sitting in the same flower patch. I wish I lived near you, Lee - or rather that you lived near me because I don't know much, if anything, about American snakes. I am almost certain I could teach you not to fear snakes, and even to love them - even if only from a certain distance! Earth Angel, I loved your little pictures of an owl, an angel and the little blue flowers with the little yellow butterfly - and not least, your wonderful compliments! I often worry about money (though it bores me to death, I sorta need it now and then and I have to work very hard to get it), but tonight (on 3-talk, Honeybunch, in case you read this)I saw a woman on TV for whom I feel the deepest pity. She is 20 and is married to a man of 50 and has 600 pairs of shoes and 8 cars (and in South Africa, the cheapest car is quite expensive!) and has a very shallow outlook on life and a terribly distorted sense of values. I fear for her happiness. I am 60 and I have never got used to how lucky I am - how healthy I am, how happy I am (in spite of a lot of things) and how delighted I am with what I have and how few things there are that I have every wanted that I didn't have. - Owl |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Exilharation indeed Dianna!! This is a delight for my eyes to behold tonight, and your attitude dear, is an inspiration to us all!!  Oh...I am most assuradely keeping this one...  seek the flame within yourself |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Donna. I am glad that you enjoyed it and were inspired by it and especially that it came at just the right time for you. Warm hugs - Owl |
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