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My Long Ago Home (rwwith music &voice recording)
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My Long Ago Home (rwwith music &voice recording) |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light 
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My Long Ago Home Please Click Link above to hear music and my voice recording. Music: Castle Gwynn” by Arlene Faith From the album entitled: River of Dreams  Artist: Max Weber My Long Ago Home by Linda L. Dowd The dampness of the cool, autumn air, musty smells of lichens and loam ~ ochres and russets of high rolling hills remind me of my long ago home. Mighty oaks in all of their splendor, rustic browns of sedges and briar ~ denim-blue skies span lochs and the highlands, forests ringing with magpie choir. The earthy smell of fall’s leafy ground, the pungent smoke of a hardwood fire ~ Fond memories are stirred of simpler times, back home in the quaint, country shire. Sheep grazing on emerald hillsides, pipes echoing thru’ dales and tors ~ Peregrines circling cerulean skies, purple heather blanketing moors. Hares scamper o’er dew-laden grass, buck and doe stand in silence by stream ~ Trout leap from sparkling, clear waters as I raptly look on in day dream. Bluebells line floors of the woodlands, meadows teem with bracken and thistles ~ Grouse roaming carpets of peat moss, woods ring with birdsong and whistles. The dampness of the cool autumn air, musty smells of lichens and loam ~ Ochres and russets of the high rolling hills, remind me of my long ago home. ~ |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Linder Lou of the Moors, Thank you for taking me to your heather hills and allowing me to see their beauty through your eyes. I loved hearing the pipes and feeling the breeze as we sat by the stream. You are lovely, generous and a keeper forever. Love, Ali |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Oh, my dear Lasky Girl, I'd love to share those smells, sights, and sounds with you! You are a true appreciator of Nature's beauty! I'm glad I could share a bit of it with you as you do me with your poems and photographs of Alaska! Love you too! Linder Lou of the hollows and the hills!  xo |
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Nicole Senior Member
since 1999-06-23
Posts 1835Florida |
What a lovely bit of serenity; thank you for sharing this.  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
This is nothing less than breathtaking in its scope and wordage, Linda. There is such depth and feeling inside the lines of this piece of fine writing, that I think you must have been slightly possessed as you wrote it. Good poetry! ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
grand-fine imagery of my most favorite (and what is arguably the most beautiful) place in the world! wonderful writing. |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Very nice EA... JL Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I took a mini-trip to the highlands through your words... and the smell of peat fire lingers in memory. Thank you for a beautiful read and fantasy! LOL |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Masterfully written magical poem, dear Angelo Terrestre! I have learned quite a number of new words in English, your language being so rich! Loved your soft intense voice and the music too. And then I remembered a fantastic photo taken by Tony Howell with the bluebells ...  Love and hugs. Margherita  |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Dear Linda You have just described "paradise". So lovely! Love Helen |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
Linda Angel you have taken me home to a place I've never been but remember exactly as you paint it. |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
Like floating on a cloud in a state of bliss. Wonderful words |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Linda, whilst there is nothing outwardly sad about this exquisite poem except the nostalgia, there are tears rolling down my cheeks at the immensity of it beauty which I know will cling to me long after I press the Submit button. Gentle hugs and ever-powerpunch prayers Owl |
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