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bivzbabe
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marion,il

0 posted 2006-06-08 04:54 PM



Within a Stone’s Throw

Lies a once lively garden
Within a stone’s throw,
Chipper chipmunks chase gaily
Over ground where weeds grow,
While the wild onion wind wakes
The molding windrow.

Tired tools of the harvest
In rusty sleep lie,
At the fence that kept cattle
In the meadow nearby,
While the gate gapes wide open
Having long said goodbye.

Under shade of sugar maple
Where the salvias grow,
Lie the farmer and family
Who, many years ago,
Raised the home barely standing
Within a stone’s throw.

Sherry Bivin  4/05


© Copyright 2006 Sherry L. Bivin - All Rights Reserved
Jess
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1 posted 2006-06-08 06:22 PM


This is an interesting piece. It feels melancholy but also cheerful somehow...
iliana
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2 posted 2006-06-08 07:19 PM


Welcome to PIP, Sherry.  Good write!
JamesMichael
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3 posted 2006-06-08 07:50 PM


Enjoyed...James
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4 posted 2006-06-08 07:55 PM


I've got to go find your first poem...in order to Welcome you to Passions!

The fine resonance of sound in your alliteration...
the keen ear to wind speak of your words...
these are quite the sounds worth hearing...
and I am glad to have stopped...

and then heard.

Welcome to Passions!

" It matters not this distance now  " Excerpt, Yesterday's Love
~*~
KRJ

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5 posted 2006-06-08 09:24 PM


Most hauntings involve ghosts; here the haunting is done by emptiness. Nice job.

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