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The Swamp |
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Logan Senior Member
since 2001-05-28
Posts 1641Arkansas |
Moonbeams filtering through twisted limbs, festooned with moss, glowing in light so dim. Reflecting off polished cypress knees, clustered around century old trees. Piroque drifting with practiced ease, through the bayou in nights breeze. Speckled waters with moonlit glow, hidden spots where the lilies grow. The sound of the cat cries in the night, or was it a woman in deadly fright. Bulls-eye lantern with its feeble light, showing eyes of red over to the right. A mossy log drifting in waters brown, turns to ‘gator sinking down. The whirl of wings thunders close by, as a brace of ducks take to the sky. Peaceful and deadly these waters can be, but like a drug, hauntingly call me. [This message has been edited by Logan (edited 07-04-2001).] |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
What a wonderful write about the magic of the swamp. Well done! I enjoyed it.  |
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Lone Wolf Member Ascendant
since 2000-03-16
Posts 5842Lansing, MI USA |
Wow, Logan, I felt like I was right there! Great write! All writing comes |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
What you call swamp...I would call bayous....perhaps, and only so, it is a little more romantic in sound.... for all you have written, draws one in.... |
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Logan Senior Member
since 2001-05-28
Posts 1641Arkansas |
Munda, thank you for your kind words. It is a beautiful and haunting place. Appreciate the read...gentle smile Ahh LW, Glad you were able to take the trip with me then..Thank you for being here..gentle smile Sigh, yes, Sissie, the bayou is in the body of the poem, the swamp in the heading, so I probably am guilty of a misnomer, but it is swamp where I live, bayou fifteen miles away across the line, but you are correct, I should have named it The Bayou...gentle smile |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Logan~ Parallels~ /pip/Forum4/HTML/002585.html A swamp by any other name~  Back before my 'unique' computer didn't mind (parenthesis) in the title ! ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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SmittenKitten Senior Member
since 2001-06-20
Posts 1131where the sky and horizon meet |
Spookedy! But I can see the allure...I feel like I've experienced this swamp firsthand! ~Krista |
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Logan Senior Member
since 2001-05-28
Posts 1641Arkansas |
Marge, gentle smile, should you be surprised if our minds work in such ways? Keeper.. SmittenKitten, I am more spooked about a big city, then I am the winding waters of a bayou....gentle smile..but thank you for making the trip |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
I can see a rich oil canvas painting with saturated colors of water, shafts of light, moonglow and such... and I mean this literally -- this feels like a powerful description, not only of an actual scenario, but of a very well done oil painting... in other words: INCREDIBLE imagery! Very rich, Logan. -MVS "If you think you know it all, you have a lot to learn." |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Logan--I think I would like to be there...actually I was with your poem, and the poem was safe. Enjoyed your words! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
This is simply gorgeous...and it IS serene, until you hear some of the stories of what sometimes goes on in Bayou country...ROFL...with hugs and a  Thanks, Logan! |
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