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Sunshine

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0 posted 2000-10-09 03:37 PM

                    Backyard Menagerie

                    breeze and I spoke today
                    as sprightly the gust played
                    pushing me along, puffing
                    southern breezes,  northerly born,
                    bringing hint, before cold, the warm

                    whispering winter’s coming

                    robins packing full the backyard
                    knowing we grow nourishment
                    just for them, our guards
                    as little soldiers they stand
                    chirping, singing hungry demand

                    knowing winter’s coming

                    pet rabbits of nature, eyeing warily
                    the lay of the land as they see
                    the spread of grain and seed
                    and even chase brown squirrels away
                    leaving nothing left to weed

                    waiting for winter's coming

                    a woodpecker, striped herringbone-like
                    in darkest black, gray and white
                    red blazoning on it’s neck
                    adopted us rather circumspect
                    and treats its whereabouts with respect

                    watching for the winter coming

                    cottonwood readying to let go
                    all of summer’s greenery
                    leafing flutters have turned to a
                    whiskery sound of scenery
                    in the Kansas winds that blow

                    eager for winter’s coming

                    the breeze and I spoke today
                    robins packing full the backyard
                    a woodpecker, striped herringbone-gray
                    ‘neath cottonwood readying to let go
                    soon to be blanketed in white, it’s so

                    winter’s coming

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
30 September, 2000

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (edited 10-09-2000).]

wayoutwalt
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since 1999-06-22

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1 posted 2000-10-09 03:59 PM

it's coming yuh it's coming..very nice

Kit McCallum

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2 posted 2000-10-09 04:03 PM

Oh Karilea ... from one nature lover to another ... wonderful!!! I could picture this perfectly, beautifully written, and summed up so nicely in the closing. Well done!

Best wishes,
/Kit

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

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East Lansing, MI USA

3 posted 2000-10-09 07:03 PM

Winter has already come in some parts of Michigan. . . 11 inches!!! WOO HOO!!!

This was great Sunshine. . . got my gloves and scarf all ready!!!

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That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl

Sunshine

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4 posted 2000-10-10 09:30 AM

WOW, Kit and Sven...

thank you all...Sven, I'm jealous!

Karilea
If I whisper, will you listen?...KRJ

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5 posted 2004-05-16 08:33 PM

ooooooooo...very pretty

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