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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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PHOENIX 4 January 2012 Single candle burned staunchly in the crow-wing night. Wayward wind fluttered to tempt the light. Candle straight as a dye stood firm and white. Wind backed off having lost the fight. Flame stretched skyward in the black night bite and burned with Christmas tranquillity might. Owl |
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Nicole Senior Member
since 1999-06-23
Posts 1835Florida |
Single candle burned staunchly in the crow-wing night This line alone is a poem in and of itself. I very much enjoyed this  |
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bel1e Senior Member
since 2006-07-24
Posts 1631 |
artfully woven visuals, Owl....and for the life of me...I have never been able to make any one of my poems rhyme! This is brilliant |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
I look for your daily post.Only you can do it so softly. I hope you hand write a daily jornal.Computers change and disks are lost. Pen and paper last forever.I have found in old book stores, hand written journals from many years ago and I have to buy them whenI see them, to save them. Otherwise they end up in the trash. jo |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Wow, Nicole! Thank you. Another wow! Thank you, Belle. I very seldom use rhyme, and always only for a reason. Smiles. Oh, my goodness, Jo. Thank you. You blow me away. I am very touched indeed. No, I don’t have a handwritten journal, but I have printed out my collection in 2 parts (well up to just before Christmas) – each with about 260 pages back and front. Bone Marrow Part 1 is safely bound correctly, and all of Part 2 is printed including its cover page and table of contents, but something snapped in my spiral binder as I was trying to bind Part 2 last month and it won’t open wide enough for the largest size spiral any more. When I have time, I will try to find out if and where it can be fixed. I don’t have anything printed out since Christmas though. I suppose I should print out each page as soon as it is full on both sides, and keep replacing the last 2-sided page of the table of contents perhaps once a month after re-generated it again. Jo, those hand-written journals that you find in bookstores are a precious find to be treasured - and not only that, what a wonderful escape for them to be saved from the trash. Thank you for that. I have never seen one in a bookstore here. Owl |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
You offer perfection here once again, dear Owl! Love, Margherita |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Wow, you stun me, Margherita! Thank you. Owl |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Helen, I am so glad you have saved them and bound them .I started printing so many poems from this site that I now have many three ring note books and have tried to organize them by subject. But now I have stopped that because between my many books and journals there is the sad thought that my children will most likely have bring in a large bin and throw the poetry away. The books I am going to start to give away, my private journals they may keep. But who knows. Yours should be left to someone who will appreciate them. Do go to Bel1e’s site and find her special books called “altered books” I know you will love the thought she puts behind them.jp |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Jo, I ain't Helen (of Troy, or elsewhere, lol). I be one Diana of Durban. Owl |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Diana of Durban. Oh color my face red! I think I have done this same on another poem you posted. Why I persist on calling you Helen is beyond me.Please accept my apology.jo |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
No, I colour your face its own natural colour, lol! When I was on holiday on a farm near the Drakensberg (a range of mountains) when I was about 10, I had a friend called Elizabeth, but she looked like a Jill, and I kept calling her Jill. I didn't know another Elizabeth or Jill so where it came from, I don't know. Perhaps there was a children's horse-book with a Jill in it, and we rode horses every day. Perhaps it came from something like that. Owl |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
My humble thank you to your gracious reply. I also had a friend who persisted in calling me Joan for over twenty years and my name is Josephine. I much prefer jo. As a child I thought the name much to hard to spell. Also it was my grandmother's name and I had never known her. I did not want to take it from her.I have her photo and she was a beautiful woman. once again Thank you.jo |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Smiles. Owl |
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tracie66 Member Elite
since 2000-01-18
Posts 4713Australia |
excellent write, I loved the imagery this portrayed for me. Love is the life of the soul... |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Tracie. Owl |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
Superb imagery and a peaceful feeling of guardianship. Lovely crafting!  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Karen, for your kind words and your interesting interpretation. Owl |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Actually I think you rhyme very well. Lovely write, Diana. Ida |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Ida. Smiles. Owl |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
What are the odds? *S* On 1/4 twelve years ago, I wrote a poem with the same title as this poem you wrote on 1/4/12 (my mind loves numbers *G*)... The poems' contents are very different... but I think we were meant to be friends! *S* I love the images you give us here... beautiful work!! |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Whew, Ruth! That is amazing! And, on top of that, you share Flicka's birthday, 3 days before mine! Of course, though, you are centuries younger than my treasured 66 years! Kacy's was exactly 14 days younger than me. I, too, like numbers. My father and mother and I moved from the dear little village of Malvern into the city of Durban also on 14 January (but 1953!) and I lived there until I was 19 and qualified as a teacher and was posted to my first school in the north of the province. Thank you for enjoying the poem. So lovely to see you back, as I keep saying. Owl |
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