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Sunshine

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0 posted 2010-05-11 11:48 AM

Kansas Sight

To stand and gaze at prairie
just below your feet,
you feel the earth respire under you
a moving
viable
shift
of

life.

Close your eyes, and lift your head
then open lids
to cerulean sky
and white clouds that build
over you in
silence

so white, So White! Snow White blinding
and blink your irises so much so the
blue becomes a sapphire

jewel.

Close your eyes

and pull your face to face the horizon
and somehow,
someway,

the distance seems more remote
and you seem more isolated,
as a reachable horizon seems farther
than the sky.

At first there were no windbreaks

except for what grew along streams
and then, only scrub brush and
prairie roses gave
scent to the zephyrs,

and grasses were seven feet tall
where horses could hide;

then trees became a land-line for mine-line
and fenced in eyesight
and made the wind easier to hear.

I haven’t found it yet
that bit of say from someone from
before, that

one feels at first insignificant then
magnificent by the mere grace
of standing within such
grandeur

and I still have not yet given you
Kansas Sight.

~*~

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
1 May 2002

Chalmette Guy
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since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

1 posted 2010-05-11 01:03 PM

The Kansas Tourism Commission should give you a job K.
This poem should make any person long to visit this place.

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

2 posted 2010-05-11 01:13 PM

boy ms sun..toto will be p-o'd when he finds out calif was not kansas..enjoyed you lady

Eusta B. Mae
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3 posted 2010-05-11 01:50 PM

Sunshine- You make me proud to be from the land of ahhhhs! ebm

Martie

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California

4 posted 2010-05-11 04:39 PM

Sure wish I could blow with the tall grass and watch the sky with you, Sissie. Know that I am from my spot on this earth.

Lamar Cole
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5 posted 2010-05-14 09:53 AM

Very Nice.

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

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by the sea

6 posted 2010-05-14 12:16 PM

a wonderful poem, an artful painting of Kansas and a poetic mood all along...Great work...

thanks

yann

whisperingwalt
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since 2010-04-29

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Coquitlam, BC, Canada

7 posted 2010-05-14 12:39 PM

Wonderful imagery...You started the tour with your first word and we boarded with you....the read was magical...you truly captured the essence of the moment.ww

Goldenrose
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since 2003-05-30

Posts 3665

8 posted 2010-05-14 12:56 PM

Kansas brought sharply alive by your words of wonder and is obviously a place you love, it speaks to us readers with devotion...thank you for showing us the view i enjoyed the sight...

Goldenrose.

Friendship is Love without his wings. Lord Byron.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

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Eternity

9 posted 2010-05-14 06:07 PM

Wonderful, could experience your sight, dear Karilea!

Love,
Margherita

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

10 posted 2010-05-14 07:18 PM

Beautifully done...would love to see Kansas, however, I'll just have to see it thru your eyes..what wonders...loverly missy...thank you

threadbear
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since 2008-07-10

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Indy

11 posted 2010-05-14 10:51 PM

it takes a word painter
to see the story behind the sometimes still
world of Nature,
Compliments to the Master Sunshine!
Jeff

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12 posted 2010-05-14 11:48 PM

Ah, Sunshine...you have painted a beautiful portrait of my childhood. Mine was in Missouri but a rose by any other name...it's all part of God's country, after all.

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

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So. El Monte, California

13 posted 2010-05-15 03:24 AM

I've never been to Kansas, Karilea, but this poem makes me want to visit.
Ida

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

14 posted 2010-05-15 05:23 AM

You described it just as I remember it

LOVEd THE VASTNESS AND THE CERULEAN BLUE SKIES!

MISCE'

Sunshine

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15 posted 2010-05-15 09:36 AM

Wow...what wonderful responses. Perhaps I have given you a glimpse of this little spot...

I have walked in the grasses looming high over my head...and have heard the barbed wire sing.

Come, visit again.

Bastet
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since 2010-05-07

Posts 246

16 posted 2010-05-16 12:44 PM

Again a wonderful painting in words. It's a real treat to read your poetry. You are very gifted and I appreciate your sharing your gifts with me and others. Thank you.

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