The Visitor ............................................. for Mysteria [repost]

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Open Poetry #13

The Visitor ............................................. for Mysteria [repost]

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2001-04-07 06:14 PM

The Visitor

in my woods
there is a corner
~ a copse ~
where all is quiet
no matter the time
of day

with the exception
of an owl in flight
in the lee of night
or a hawk on high
in the day of sky
or the wind that sighs

and it is here
in these woods
beneath the naked trees
I sit
quietly
and wait for the eye
that would behold me

the bearer of the eye
that should
beware my smile
shall wear a coat
of tawny sheen
his eye shall bear
a golden gleam

quiet, in muffled silence
I
draw to my lungs
a shallow breath
lest I sigh, too,
too obtrusive
and my proximity give
away

for I would view
my visitor
I would catch his eye ~
a puissant challenge, he
suffers few in his
presence
such is his powerful essence

a crackle of leaf
draws courtesy of my gaze
as a brown squirrel
runs his maze
across the branch of
the elderberry
making lively, making
merry

still I await the non-sound
as the woods become subdued
before magnificence
comes on crafted limb
and all other bestial beings
grow silent in
his propinquity

as he enters the copse
and takes up my soul
in the depth of his golden eye
I can only take up
his imagery in
the eye of my
camera

and he looks direct
at me
and
the shutter shudders

and only one of us
is the better for the
spell he shall leave behind

01.06.01

Joyce Johnson

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since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-04-07 06:21 PM

You held my interest to the end when I found a camera. It was a camera. Joyce

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

2 posted 2001-04-07 06:57 PM

Clapping!!!

SpitFire
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since 2000-04-19

Posts 2396

3 posted 2001-04-07 07:05 PM

~Crafty little writer you. What a mixing of words, an interesting and gathering piece. To be read aloud for sure. Enjoyed this. *Peace S.

Chelsea~
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since 2001-02-09

Posts 260
Ontario, CANADA

4 posted 2001-04-07 07:07 PM

sunshine,

excellent, imaginative
writing

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2001-04-08 02:44 AM

Oh my goodness! So this is what a poet does? Well, I don't know which would capture the image better - you or a camera, that is a real toss up. Thank you so much for posting this, and you know I love this one! Oh do I love this one. Thank you for posting it. What a painting!

[This message has been edited by Mysteria (edited 04-08-2001).]

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

6 posted 2001-04-08 04:43 AM

still I await the non-sound
as the woods become subdued
before magnificence
comes on crafted limb
and all other bestial beings
grow silent in
his propinquity

as he enters the copse
and takes up my soul
in the depth of his golden eye
I can only take up
his imagery in
the eye of my
camera

and he looks direct
at me
and
the shutter shudders

and only one of us
is the better for the
spell he shall leave behind
==================================

no....not "only one is betterfor it"...for with this... the spell is now shared with many...seeing it thru your eyes wrapped its gifts in poetry.
very very cool write Sun.

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