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Child of the Wind
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Child of the Wind |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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9 September 2012 https://soundcloud.com/diana-van-den-berg-2/child-of-the-wind The softly rushing wind tonight, in crescendos and diminuendos and orchestrated ponder-pauses, regales the tales it whispered to me so long ago, so very long ago, when, as a child, I lay abed, my ears agog . . . breathless in the living darkness, enticing the wind’s excitement, daring it, wearing it, blaring it, silently singing in harmony with it, urging it wilder, wilder, wilder, longing somewhere in the recesses of my child-heart’s soul to share its fierce and stormy story with its passionate paso doble’s with its sensuous caresses with its tears and with its comfort with its frenzy and its sorrow, to any who would understand and knew how to let their feelings throb and crash and smash and ebb and flow, but too young to know I did, or how to paint it into a poem on paper, and so I kept it secret, deep in a sacred corner of my being, whispering, begging, pleading for all these years, to burst tonight in crazy, primeval abandon and these sparse words. |
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bbynams Junior Member Posts 49 |
The home I grew up in would be a long way for me! |
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bbynams Junior Member Posts 49 |
I know the rules. https://youtu.be/8ysPTgLckSM |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
"my ears agog" Love the whole poem. It took me to a place in my own childhood that loved the wind. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you Martie for sharing with me in childhood, knowing, understanding and loving the wind . . . and for loving the poem.  |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
This poem is so special! As a child, the wind scared me at night. It was good for my inner child to have shared your totally opposite experience. The poem was full of lovely, melodious combinations of vowels and consonants, what a beautiful bonus! I feel uplifted dear Owl, bless your sweet heart! ~L |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Lori, for your kindness. I am so glad that my poem did that for you. |
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