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Come RiverFest with Me
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Come RiverFest with Me |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Come RiverFest With Me thunderous black gray concrete skies threatened week’s end but no one cries for festival will come, for come what may even mud can become decorative clay all the week the rains were damping but set ups continued neon blaze orange lines on green grass stayed sprayed, denoting “tents here and here and here”, plans never-ending like a chant of thunder festival is coming, festival coming, FESTIVAL is here…. ~*~ spirited sprites like magical gnomes crafted, Disney-like, trees transformed by colored gauze and suddenly we ARE in Oz {mommy, look!} follow the blue/green/red/gold/yellow brick roads that lead to treasures of heart, food ala-carte eyefuls of artist’s lives in art crafts to cart, home, home but no one leaves until they have laughed and giggled, talked, and jiggled their way through the day, dancing with the beat of the greet sounds swinging from cottonwood to elm butteryflies reggaeing shimmy shimmy sister find the shade watch the parade, humanity’s rainbows are passing by… people, short tall thick small thin and kidlets as colorful as the wherewithal they have dressed the park up and down, nothing is left to the imagination except the thought what will next year bring? planners looking listening planning next year, knowing the tents will come as will I…. a poetry wall! heaven took a slice of rolling scapery, an S, set on edge the river’s run through the park, magnetic words a give and take, line to line of thoughts by children of all ages I thought… “more!” ~*~ people watching, it takes a village to give life to festival, oh live we do….meet, greet, talk to strangers ranging and roaming cottonwood snowing feel the breeze! summer sunning on shoulders and noses, white legs pinking, freckles popping, fill the bellies growling with yet more food and with good eye spy a small ring to fit the finger and validate myself… I have steak taste in style…. ~*~ music filling thousands with snap and yet, no crowd, enough room for everyone, come along, go away, come back, come back memories filling sun satiated windblown bodies meld and swell and move like the river itself, slow and eversure lazy and twainish in delight of the day feel the cool…. ~*~ ah yes, home again home again home… peel off the clothes careful watch the burn and where’s the aloe ohhhhhh that is so much better and now zebraed for summer, tomorrow to dress with cover for the taking of the last sausage and blooming onion and wisps of sounds, smells and eyefuls of color…. until next year…. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Oh,Karilea~ Sounds like such fun ! Thanks for sharing ! I wanna go ! ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Hope New Member
since 2001-06-04
Posts 4The Lighthouse Keeper's Beam |
You have managed to transform, numerous visual, "Mind Photos"`into this piece. That is of course one of the most important methods to reach the reader. Your`intermigling of sounds. and sights is well done. Well done Indeed. Hope "Hope IS like a lighthouse Keeper's beam" |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
I feel like I was right there with you, Sunshine! So very well done, thoroughly enjoyed the stroll, but where's my share of the cotton candy????? |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
I loved all the snapshots you took with your mind's eye...wonderful and colorful..just like you. |
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Poeminister Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862Regina SK; Canada |
You take the reader vividly with you into the anticipations and sensations of these moments. Wonderful writing. Poeminister [This message has been edited by Poeminister (edited 06-10-2001).] |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Marge, go pack, come along....it's better shared in person.... Hope, mind photos are indeed what I had hoped to bring all here...thank you so much for seeing this with me, it WAS a delightful day...wasn't it? Virginia, I left your cotton-candy by the kettlecorn stand, your mint-tea is there as well....you wouldn't hurry, and I couldn't wait to see what was around t h e corner...., now hurry, we only have one more day.... Martie, I am beige....but LIFE is colorful! Poeminister....you have just told me that our Fesitival CAN be shared through word, then, and guess what? There will probably be more....thank you so much for reading! [This message has been edited by Sunshine (edited 06-10-2001).] |
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