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Open Poetry #42

Keeping Silent

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2008-06-28 03:40 PM

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Trees still
In their
Night clothes
Swaying
In a cool
Summer wind

Through a few
Dark clouds
Heavy with rain
Five in the morning
Crescent moon

Blossoms of flowers
Like small white stars
Scattered across
A wide lawn

With dawn comes
Softly to my balcony—
The first bird’s song

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2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

1 posted 2008-06-28 04:31 PM

Once more enjoyed it, always a pleasure to share the abundance of your short poems....

yann

The Shadow in Blue
Member

since 2006-05-18

Posts 493
EL, Michigan

2 posted 2008-06-28 04:42 PM

Beautiful Huan.

Kudos to you.

~Jill

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-06-28 06:25 PM

Yo John,

Nice work. I'm just glad those trees aren't in the all together.

Bobby

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2008-06-28 06:54 PM

for me...this is one of your best ever, John!

[a joy to read!]

I am especially fond of the beginning:

"Trees still
In their
Night clothes
Swaying
In a cool
Summer wind (!)"

serious, sustained applause for this 'penning!'

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

5 posted 2008-06-29 01:24 AM

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Thank you everyone

In its own way this is a very
agressive statement of the right
to be left in peace to enjoy
one's own talent for happiness.

Thank you all again

John

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2008-06-29 02:14 AM

What a wonderful way to start any day.
Ida

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

7 posted 2008-06-29 02:15 AM

wonderful! love RDB

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

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

8 posted 2008-06-30 09:37 AM

just reading this poem makes me feel like that moment is a time where life begins again

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