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Sunshine
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0 posted 1999-08-28 10:19 PM


Native Grasslands

West of the Kansas Flint Hills, not yet to Kansas’ flats
lives a secret, sacred, lovely place, I know where it is at,
swollen mounds of ground lift me a little bit on high
where my feet touch the ground, my hand can stroke the sky.

It’s at this place where I can be, between now and November
I may go there and roam about, lean back and then remember
a time woven long in history, a place only in my dreams
amidst the grasses rising tall, higher than white man’s seen.

Native grasses on ground never tilled, growing grassroots deep
Turkeyfoot, Indiangrass, bluestem grasses that still do keep
a watch on the land, Indian land, native land at its best
keeping land, virgin land, that is the greatest test.

When September’s sun brings a shine to eight foot heads of gold
I then know that secret which the Spaniards did not know
that golden grains of seed will bring forth seedlings new
and if I could, then I would, share this vision with you.

©KRJ
28 August, 1999


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Sunshine
Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ
Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



© Copyright 1999 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
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1 posted 1999-08-28 10:22 PM


beautiful, took me right there. Thanks.
Nicole
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2 posted 1999-08-28 10:35 PM


You shared it beautifully. As always, a superb job!

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"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." *Mark Twain*

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3 posted 1999-08-28 11:29 PM


A wonderful poem ... turn left ... three miles on to our shared memory .. thanks again
Sunshine
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4 posted 1999-08-29 08:21 AM


Thank you all!
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5 posted 2010-06-13 08:18 PM


Love this.
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