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Open Poetry #13

Walked

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-05-13 12:27 PM

Walked
Virginia Salter

Walked of a morning
taking in the cooling of gentle breezes
‘neath haloed light of springtime sun.

My steps echoed
by shadows merging and emerging
past stores and lamp posts
stretching barriers
before me
that swallowed up my memory
then spate it out
onto sun-drenched squares
of yellowed-up concrete
only to engulf the imprint of my being anew
when it disappeared, again, from view
into light-starved square yards of paved walkway.

Sunday morning
has dressed the streets in quiet
interrupted only by the beeping “walk”
and an interloper seeking directions.

My footsteps
even missing from the soundings
one would expect to hear greet their ears.
Merely the pages of my own thoughts and readings
crackled in their turnings to assure “life is in the day.”

My homecoming
has brought a peacefulness
even a profound sleepiness
that has heavy-laden my eyes
and sated my sighs with the comfort
of Afghan and pillow
and minutes
to rest.

©May 13, 2001

[This message has been edited by VAS (edited 05-13-2001).]

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

1 posted 2001-05-13 01:47 PM

You must know that I loved this. So gently exquisite.

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

Cuddlez
Member

since 1999-11-27

Posts 422
Walla Walla, WA 99362

2 posted 2001-05-14 12:57 PM

Well, i liked this so I thought Id sent it up front again... grin

Time flies? Say it not so, time stays we go.

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