You Keep Waiting for Geese

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Mabel A. Dilley
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since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

0 posted 2001-05-04 04:35 PM

You keep waiting for geese;
they do not come. You
remember the day it rained canvasbacks
in front of your Grandfather's rifle,
his black and white boarder collie
through tall jump-weed returned,
mouth filled with feathers.

You stand hip deep in marsh
on an early April's morning
listening to the thunder of your heart,
camera cocked against first light
waiting cold callings to pierce
grey skies.

You're forty-three. Spring drags
up another life cycle and somewhere
deep down you know part of yours
is lost, leaving behind ghosts
of an autumn's whisper.

Your fingers numb to trigger shape
over your camera; empty skies
return their silence. You keep
waiting for geese they do not come.

Graphics: Bowman Lake, Montana
Music: Greywolf

"I am not now that which I have been."

Jamie
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since 2000-06-26

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Blue Heaven

1 posted 2001-05-04 04:59 PM

Wonderfully done.. almost as if I were watching..

There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
byron

Mysteria

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British Columbia, Canada

2 posted 2001-05-04 06:22 PM

Just a lovely painting in my mind Mabe, I loved this.

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walker
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since 2001-02-11

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Florida

3 posted 2001-05-04 07:07 PM

Loved the poem and the music as well.

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

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By the sea

4 posted 2001-05-04 11:45 PM

Good work, Julian. Since I'm not a hunter, glad to see the camera.

Michael

Proust-
"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Martie

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5 posted 2001-05-05 12:03 PM

Very beautifully done!

Martha Cowan
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since 2001-03-08

Posts 240
Groves, Texas

6 posted 2001-05-05 03:17 AM

This was simply awesome! Brought back many memories.....I loved this!
Smiles to you, Dawn

Fading Away

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since 2001-03-14

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Lynchburg, Virginia

7 posted 2001-05-05 03:19 AM

Wow. this is very beautiful! I enjoyed this a lot!

--Marie

Don't ever be someone's slogan, because you are poetry.

Mabel A. Dilley
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since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

8 posted 2001-05-06 02:39 PM

Thanks to all of you for sharing a snippet of Montana with me, and memories of a dear man, my Grandfather. Hunt always with the camera, never with a weapon.

"I am not now that which I have been."

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

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Oregon

9 posted 2001-05-06 06:01 PM

Julian, I hated to respond to this because I didn't want to leave it to come over here. The photo, superb, the poem wonderful, the music perfect. Greywolf is the artist, right? I recognize the music as some I heard on PBS and amazingly had forgotten about til today. I really think I need a copy of it. Do you know the name of the C.D.? The combination of the 3 pieces resulted in tears shed because of the wondrous beauty encompased here. Thanks for writing, thanks for sharing!!!

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