Open Poetry #12 |
Different Beauty |
Startime Member Ascendant
since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918Canada |
Different Beauty Karen Torbiak 2000 As I gaze out at the flat, barrenness of the prairie world around me my mind drifts back in time A time when the tangy, salt air had my nostrils twitching as I tasted of the freshness flowing into my body Seeing the endless seas of green planted fields rippling forever in the distance brings the fantasy of memory closer still Eyes closed against reality I transport myself to the cliffs of my past where I view the ever-changing waves responding to the powerful winds flowing over their surface Stepping out after a gentle prairie rain, smelling the fresh rebirth it has given the land makes me wistful still Memories of blinding torrents of water pouring from skies overburdened from the oceans near at hand As I gaze out on the flat barrenness of the prairie I see barrenness no more as it comes to life for eyes now willing to see Love I leave with you my friend whether it be in your life or of yet the essense of your dreams. http://www.voy.com/7622/ http://www.powerpoems.com |
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kcsgrandma Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1522Presque Isle, ME |
This should not be dropping off the first page without attention. I, too was transplanted from the coast for a time, and remember how I missed the salt air. How lovely that you have learned to see a beauty, not the same, but no less, in your new home! Thank you for sharing this. To love another person is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables Marilyn |
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Victoria
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869 |
i know what you mean..i lived in hawaii and i do miss those beautiful waves...i am now on the plains too haa..trying hard to enjoy them haa...especially the tumbleweeds...but seriously there is beauty all around..as i look out at the beautiful snow upon the branches of the trees..lovely write ~V~ A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery (1871-1945) |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
It is all in how we look at things in this life that matter so it is best to try to find the beauty in all around us. Wonderful write Karen, I enjoyed it much. |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
wonderful imagery in this Star ... lovely descriptive poetry well done take care jm When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past ... I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. ~Shakespeare~ |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Startime, having come from a green misty land to a land of sweeping plains,I can relate to this. It evoked such great images. write on Kethry. Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life. Patty Hansen. |
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