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Open Poetry #14

Taking Time for Shadows

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-06-20 10:14 AM

Taking Time for Shadows
Virginia Salter

crisp morning air drifts in
through screened doorway
as shadows stretch to follow
reflecting a strange image
an image absent of animation
absent of life

yet at the edge
just beyond the shadows
life happens
life flourishes in green, magenta, white
trimming the silent scene
in glorious delight

morning patio awaits
ready, ever ready
for its visitors to sidle over
stop a spell, rest
renew in the risen sun
of a new-dawn day

four legs and a tail
four pads and a wail
having eaten, basks in sunlight
then having warmed, leaps
into shadow-covered chair
curls up in utter solitude

© June 27, 2000

JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

1 posted 2001-06-20 10:20 AM

Morning patio awaits...taking reservations?

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2001-06-20 10:22 AM

Sounds a pleasant place to visit...

nicely written VAS I ejoyed!

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

3 posted 2001-06-20 11:26 AM

Very peaceful and pleasent read!

Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

4 posted 2001-06-20 11:30 AM

Very nice!

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

5 posted 2001-06-20 12:14 PM

Cats are like that ... and some humans

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

6 posted 2001-06-20 01:22 PM

JLR, come on over!  I've not spent much time on my patio yet, in fact, I didn't get the furniture out there until a month later than normal, well, usual.

Cpat. It is a pleasant place, if only I could get my computer out there without us both having a melt-down, then I'd spend more time there.  I used to breakfast there until I started breakfasting at the computer.

ethome and decaflame, thanks for the encouragement.

Interloper, I'm quite like that, when I can be.  Just finished working in my flower beds in the hot morning sun and am taking time in the shadows, the cool, the 'dry off'

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