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The "Why" I Write [Repost, For Special Reasons]
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The "Why" I Write [Repost, For Special Reasons] |
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Sunshine
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Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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The “Why” I Write Laying hidden, softly, out of view and sound rumbling intently, growing gently from heart’s mound convenes a word, coupling with another, just until it pours forth, gigantically, as if in a swell. This action forces one to take a pen in hand and write, poetically, something fine and grand but the mind hangs back as the heart pours forth wondering if the words will take their rightful course. For the mind knows what the heart yet does not that the words now penned will soon be forgot ~ a vacancy will then lie in the open hearts’ well, but give it a moment, let it sit just a spell and again it will pour forth with words enamoured of love and life and countless here-afters, moments of time thrust into a black hole, become void as gilded letters to paper refuse to be destroyed. To impart that shift of air so the perfume stings, to extol the bell so the chimes doth ring, to hesitate, slightly, so the words come slow to touch the heart of the reader, there, just so. To allow another to see a love’s true course, to capture the exhilaration of a wild and free horse, to allow the sense of quietude in a babe’s soft sleep, to share with one the shadows of loves’ fill, deep. Anguish comes to one, many, sometimes comes to all when they hear inside the words, know they have the call and yet, when written, it only sounds trite, so banal ah yes, anguish comes to many, sometimes comes to all. But, laying hidden, softly, out of view and sound rumbling intently, growing gently from heart’s mound convenes a word, coupling with another, just until it again pours forth, gigantically, as if in a swell. And the poems thunder on. 7 September, 1999 ©Karilea Rilling Jungel |
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Elizabeth
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since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
 Why ME??? |
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BSC
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since 2000-02-04
Posts 2919New York, USA |
Just totally incredible Karilea!!! Such awesome thoughts and what a perfect job you have done putting them into this poem. Your way with words never ceases to amaze me. Bonnie |
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Kit McCallum
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Oh Sunshine ... I'm so glad you've reposted this, for I had not yet read it. This is definately one of my favorites of yours. Beautifully expressed, from the heart of a true poet indeed! Best wishes, /Kit |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Elizabeth, (~,^)... Bonnie, stay amazed, stay very amazed... Kit, may the poems thunder on... |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
You been reading my journal again. Very lovely my friend. You gotta know I loved it. |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
since 1999-07-23
Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion |
Ohhh, Karilea - if only those rumblings would visit me more often. You've captured the very essence of what drives us all - very well stated. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Mark, now really, who's reading whose journal? {~,^} LngJhn my friend, if you'll send me some rain, I'll send you some rumblings... |
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Dee Member Elite
since 2000-08-19
Posts 2330Queensland, Australia |
Sunshine, how true this is, we never know when our poems will "pour forth, gigantically". I hope you "thunder on". Dee |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Dee, indeed, we should all thunder on! Welcome to Passions! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
{~,~} (I am blinded by the dazzle of this one) regards, sudhir |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
I can relate so well my friend |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Sudhir, did you pay much for the blinkers?  Hoot...when I first posted this I was the multiple posts prodigy kid...so I thought some of the newbies would like to see stuff from the "olden" days! Thank you for your comment, too many of us here, I feel, are cut from the same weave...which would make us a mighty warm, friendly bunch all in the same room, don't you think? Hugs, KJ |
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Rosebud1229 Senior Member
since 2000-04-05
Posts 1813North Carolina |
this makes me ponder the question, if we don't write no one will ever see our heart. Because in writing we part with something very dear. Wonderful poem Sunshine I once heard this quote : a song is not a song until it is sung a bell is not a bell until it is rung and without us writing our poems it is not a poem. Thank goodness there are people that want to share and give to the world such beauty. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Rosebud, thunder on! |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
yeah I think there is something to the notion the mind knows before the heart... but I would have put it the other way around... morning sunshine... nice work here |
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Sunshine
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Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Morning, Reb. Nice to see you here...'tis always a toss up - what to listen to first, heart, or mind...ah well, life! |
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