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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2001-05-12 05:19 PM

Almost Summer’s Prime

it’s a quiet
almost summer day

if
there were a word
such as lushly

that is the backyard
just now

a little more than
lush

a little more
than full

a little more like me

translucent leaves
beckoning thoughts to
rise

and still I am with
Listen to the Warm

remembering

Jean, Jean, roses are red

and his voice, husky
and warm

and how it touched
me,
here…

the raspy timbre
still comes to my ear,
with
nothing to go by
but memory

oh, my…

thirty some years
1969
where
did they scamper off

how is my heart
still young
knowing
it would turn
to hear again

Jean, Jean, you're young and alive
Come out of your half-dreamed dream
And run, if you will, to the top of the hill
Open your arms, bonnie Jean

so the tune
shall carry me
into daydreams
in this almost summer day

where warm envelops me
within
and without

and I think
it is all right
to look back, and remember,
and smile,
to look forward
to new days
to be made into
cherished moments,
those memories
that will grace
me,
as I accept me,
and come into my prime

knowing that I shall
still be me,
but perhaps a
better me, after all…

as maybe I’ve been
prime,
all along,
but just embracing it
now…

Excerpts from: http://www.mixed-up.com/lyrics/round/bonnie-jean.html
Written by Rod McKuen
From the 1969 film "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie"

Tiersdin
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since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

1 posted 2001-05-12 05:24 PM

Sunshine, thanks for painting such a lovely picture of self discovery and setting to the background a song that I remember well...

*hugs*
~Tier

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2001-05-12 05:40 PM

Nothing like warm sunny days, to make one daydream. Lovely poetry. Joyce

latin passion
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since 2001-04-26

Posts 576

3 posted 2001-05-12 05:42 PM

I've gotta think on this one - I'll be back. LP

For those who believed in me -May God keep you. There is no fear in love..For perfect love casth out all fear.

Elizabeth

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since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

4 posted 2001-05-12 05:58 PM

Summer holds so many precious memories. Well said, K.

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

5 posted 2001-05-12 06:44 PM

I remember 1969....I liked this very much.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

6 posted 2001-05-12 09:41 PM

Karilea--Your heart stays young as you grow more wise...and there IS such a word as "lushly"

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