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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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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 ------------------ Sunshine Words will always express our feelings true. ~~~ KRJ Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
beautiful, took me right there. Thanks. |
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Nicole Senior Member
since 1999-06-23
Posts 1835Florida |
You shared it beautifully. As always, a superb job!  ------------------ "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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traveler Member
since 1999-08-17
Posts 119 |
A wonderful poem ... turn left ... three miles on to our shared memory .. thanks again |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Thank you all! |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Love this. |
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