Copper Moments ................... [repost, by request]

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Open Poetry #14

Copper Moments ................... [repost, by request]

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2001-06-06 03:35 PM

Copper Moments

brilliant they are
shiny penny bright
~ pliable but lasting ~
takes me through
the night

copper memories
were tapped out in
lasting tribute from
Dad’s hands in the
silhouette of the
copper dog’s
face, my
only
bit
of

Dad

he
took
hands of
leather and
crafted before
I was a gleam in
his eye, a shepherd
dog’s head in copper
craft and lended to
it an awesome
mask of old
world and
majestic
scheme
a sight
of

dream

I
was
born
and saw
it adorn the
room of my birth
it gave me root and
worth, and the copper
gleam shone in moonbeam
a light of awe, uncanny delight
of orangeish fright when first
the child was I ~ but father
said “no, it just has a
glow of life about
it and you will
not be in
fright
of it
for
it
is
I”

&

now
it is a
daily bit
a treasure
as I cast my eye
on the eye of the dog
and wonder aloud at my
father’s artistic bent and
wonder where the art
went, perhaps a bit
was left in my
pen, do you
reckon or
not?

9 December 2000

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since 2000-11-06

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Deep in the heart

1 posted 2001-06-06 03:45 PM

I reckon so, ma'am. Beautiful.

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Loving in Truth

JLR
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since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

2 posted 2001-06-06 03:45 PM

I know I haven't read this before...but the the crafts you've described seem so familiar to me. Like I'd seen them in my own childhood. What a wonderful, creative inheritance!

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

3 posted 2001-06-06 04:03 PM

I reckon, Karilea. I'd love to see some of the things your dad crafted. You write so well of him. He must've been such a good and wonderful father.

Michael

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

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

4 posted 2001-06-06 04:11 PM

I sure enough do reckon it was! More memories please?

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

5 posted 2001-06-06 06:22 PM

what lovely memories, took me right down to the end!

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

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6 posted 2001-06-06 06:57 PM

Hi Karilea--I think our minds were on the same track today.. I think this poem is wonderful! Thanks for sharing it again.

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