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Sunshine
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0 posted 2008-10-07 11:08 PM



Rites

a liturgical ceremony
this writing one does
a cleansing ceremonial
of one's whole soul

and I shall engage therein with time and right
the reasons and the wherefores
and no one, not you, nor you, nor he, nor she, shall remove me from this path

I shall climb this hill
look north, south
east, west, and in the turn
lift my arms in this rite

and I shall speak to the hawk, place palm upon the doe, be wind beneath owl's wing
seek the coyote's lair, tend the grasses, and gaze upon the cornflower's blue light

in this dance of write
I shall perform in solemn
accord with the right
of this instrumental rite

in the realization of what I am, and not what I could pretend to be, I find that my heart holds

a simple poet

and I would pretend no more, that my right to write can only be held in my own hand

for my quill owns me

is this ritual then
an obsession or
merely an observance
of what is

I have spent my first lifetime observing
it is now time to perform the ritual

...

but it is now that

I

live

~*~

Very slightly revised
but with a lot more sense

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

© Copyright 2008 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
WindWalker
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1 posted 2008-10-08 12:14 PM


This is a good one!!!!!
OwlSA
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2 posted 2008-10-08 12:35 PM


WOWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!  Stunning, sensitively magnificent - a first reading should be compulsory for everyone on the planet - thereafter it would be read voluntarily by everyone many, many times!  

Karilea, you are a poet par excellence - but you really have outdone your usual brilliance this time!

Just in case it isn't obvious, I llllllllllove it - and so will everyone else!  

- Owl

Oklahoma Rose
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since 2008-02-28
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3 posted 2008-10-08 03:08 PM


Wow! Karilea this is great. You have always had such a way with words.
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