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Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2007-11-23 08:10 PM

Can you smell it?
Can you feel it?
can you taste?
The fragrance of winter?
The gently falling snow
flushing and cleaning the air
clear of all the junk we're spewing in to it?
Do you know the names
of the towering, Olympian peaks just west of me?
I open my mouth and taste
the clean, sweet, frosted air,
And, if the sweetened air were more substantial,
I should just reach out for it in handfuls,
scoop it in, and EAT it!

And no calories!
I have already tried out this cold and living air
on hot, bubbling, percolating coffee,
and the aroma is like nothing else on Earth can be experienced.
I would try to store some of it
in really air-tight jars and bottles ...
to keep it clean, and frosted and pure,
as it must have been when life on Earth began,
as it must have been on the first day of Creation,
when everything was new and uncorrupted,
when I opened my eyes and knew that I was naked,
and you taught me how to say your name ...
But ... okay, okay, I'll get over it;
I'll come back down to the real world; you know,
the one with its pollution, its noise,
its grit, and everything,
its ticking clocks, its shuffling papers, its pagers, its complaining people yelling ... pushing ... but not quite yet.
It's a still, Thanksgiving night time
in the Colorado snow.

Living high in the High Country
Southern Cross

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2007-11-23 09:52 PM

How beautiful, Jaime!
"And, if the sweetened air were more substantial,
I should just reach out for it in handfuls,
scoop it in, and EAT it!"
That is the essence of pure Winter brew!

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

2 posted 2007-11-24 02:42 AM

Jaime... wonderfully expressed!! We don't get snow here in Sydney, but I did enjoy your beautiful words... RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2007-11-24 01:30 PM

A wonderful flow of thoughts...James

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

4 posted 2007-11-24 07:11 PM

beautiful thoughts indeed

ARCTIC WIND

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2007-11-25 07:23 PM

interesting 'write!'

I am especially fond of:

"...this cold and living air...
like nothing else on Earth can be experienced.
I would try to store some of it
in really air-tight jars and bottles ...
to keep it clean, and frosted and pure(!)"

at the rate human technology is trashing the atmosphere...someday
the 'corporate marketeers' may unfortunately be selling that pure air in
'pop top' cans; etc.!

Applause for this environmental conscience/consciousness post!

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