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Roasting [It Seems]
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Roasting [It Seems] |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Roasting [It Seems] Among a slipping stream of fire flies that dance to chirring katydids, where ample is this summer’s eve full bodied and bosomed warm Summer breathes through liquid air Yet dead are footfalls of yester’s eve for gone are lonely steps of parched souls gone airborne escaping some concrete hell No one place is left to be yet we increase warming by making false cool just so one can breathe ~*~ Was it I who took the young squirrel’s life? There was water in the bowl; what about the jay who died, or the bambi baby who lost her battle last night? And what about the bags those that are stacked with bodies ~ does any city cry? Or do they [the living] drive their power cars making heat in driving cool along parkways of black asphalt emitting, emitting streams of dead souls through heated words, some explicative, that it’s hot! Do they just not know? That [indeed] we are our worst enemy, it seems. " It matters not this distance now " Excerpt, Yesterday's Love |
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playing.with.crayons Member
since 2006-01-02
Posts 362Neverland |
"making heat in driving cool along parkways of black asphalt emitting, emitting streams of dead souls through heated words, some explicative, that it’s hot!" wow. this is one write that I can say with absolute sincerity that I WISH I had written myself. darn. such a wonderful poem. many hugs cheye |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Oh dear Sun, such truth ... yes, smoldering. I don't believe I have seen a summer like this...supposedly in the early 80s there was a time that was about as hot, but for a longer duration... Let's hope those that have much less than us make it through these times. |
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aziza Member Elite
since 2006-07-09
Posts 2995Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy! |
.. and still our politicians deny that Global Warming exists. While the US continues to be the number one contributer! Great poem. aziza |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
O this is a Great poem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And such truth in your words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
Hardhitting work, Karilea. "Was it I who took the young squirrel’s life? There was water in the bowl; what about the jay who died, or the bambi baby who lost her battle last night?" |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Sissie Who to blame? Certainly not you in death of squirrel...unless you want to consider that she had become used to knowing THAT water and didn't know how to find other...I don't know. Sometimes I wonder of the things we give to wild critters. To go about our daily life without thought, is so easy..you're right...and to take forgranted this precious earth of ours, not right. Thank you for this!  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
What Kate said! - Owl |
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