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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2019-08-09 09:34 AM


09 August 2019

It is good
to have made memories
and to mourn them
down the decades,
but it is even better
to have known those moments at the time.

To do that, our senses need to be ever
alive,
awake,
aware,
joyous
or sorrowed
in perceiving the moments with our understanding,
breathing them with the bones of our birth,
savouring them in quivering ecstasy,
listening to them with our hearts attuned,
touching them with our souls on fire,
bathing them in our compassionate tears of joy and sorrow
and raising them up on the wings of doves and eagles.

These moments abound, all around,
whispering, fluttering, waving wildly
like the leaves of the trees in a forest
to the tune of the whims of the wind.

Open your arms and gather them,
hug them close, cherish them, caress them, bless them, sing them,
then throw your arms wide
and set them free
amongst the crowds of humanity
in the hopes that some of these precious flutterflies
in their dance in the breeze
will wing their way down on to the shoulders
of those who will honour them and love them
as you do.

© Copyright 2019 Diana van den Berg - All Rights Reserved
Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
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1 posted 2019-08-09 12:25 PM


Beautiful, milady. Butterflies and dragon flies are indeed real. Sadly, so are dragons and pterodactyls.
OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
2 posted 2019-08-09 03:37 PM


Delighted giggles, John.  How many dragons or pterodactyls have you met?  They are very friendly if you talk to them nicely!  Smiles.  
Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
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3 posted 2019-08-09 05:49 PM


Many. But they were disguised as people and walked on two legs.
OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa
4 posted 2019-08-09 06:11 PM


Aaaah!  There's the rub!  They were contaminated by human blood!     The uncontaminated ones are delightful!  
Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09
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5 posted 2019-08-09 08:41 PM


Lol, Princess. You always seem to make me smile. Thank you.
OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa
6 posted 2019-08-10 02:32 AM


Lol, too, John.  I am happy to hear that.  Thank you, too.  It is my pleasure (meant, not just as a polite reply).  
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