Birched Beauty [repost for Redwriter1]

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Open Poetry #12

Birched Beauty [repost for Redwriter1]

Sunshine

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0 posted 2001-02-18 08:30 AM

Birched Beauty

slender and white
rising high
against fall's
bluest sky
birch beauty is splendor
in motion
commotion heaves
among fall leaves
and birch grows slowly
naked,
to await winter's gray
and starker days
to come
forever reaching forward
it's crown
of stardust glory
or to tickle with
skeletal fingertip
sun's chin, as an entreaty
for yet a little more shine
from which a new
dress of spring
sprung green
shall bloom,
all for the
reclothing of
the birch beauty
in splendor

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
29 September, 2000

Kethry
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since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2001-02-18 08:55 AM

Sunshine,
splendid ... as usual!
write on
Kethry

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen.

redwriter1
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since 1999-07-22

Posts 480
Franklin, TN

2 posted 2001-02-18 09:05 AM

Thank you for posting this.....birch trees are certainly different aren't they?? So slender like super models. (grin)

I think they know how pretty they are..

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

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3 posted 2001-02-18 11:39 AM

forever reaching forward
it's crown
of stardust glory
or to tickle with
skeletal fingertip
sun's chin, as an entreaty
for yet a little more shine
from which a new
dress of spring
sprung green
shall bloom,
all for the
reclothing of
the birch beauty
in splendor
==============

i love this poem...very cool Sun...
love the descriptions and detail.
Birches are a personal fav of mine...
here in St.Louis ... where elms, maples and evergreens are so common...
the whitebark of the birches are a lovely treat...
just like this poem

As sure as God made wine
you can't wrap your arms around a memory
In the dark for me
youre the candle flame that flickers to life
~Mission UK~

Sunshine

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4 posted 2001-03-16 02:32 PM

Keth, redwriter, JM....thanks for reading....I guess it was not a "nature" day when posted, except for us four....LOL....

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