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Sunshine
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0 posted 2001-06-03 04:09 PM




Native Grasslands

West of the Kansas Flint Hills, not yet to Kansas’ flats
lives a secret, sacred, lovely place, I know where it is at,
swollen mounds of ground lift me a little bit on high
where my feet touch the ground, my hand can stroke the sky.

It’s at this place where I can be, between now and November
I may go there and roam about, lean back and then remember
a time woven long in history, a place only in my dreams
amidst the grasses rising tall, higher than white man’s seen.

Native grasses on ground never tilled, growing grassroots deep
Turkeyfoot, Indiangrass, bluestem grasses that still do keep
a watch on the land, Indian land, native land at its best
keeping land, virgin land, that is the greatest test.

When September’s sun brings a shine to eight foot heads of gold
I then know that secret which the Spaniards did not know
that golden grains of seed will bring forth seedlings new
and if I could, then I would, share this vision with you.

©KRJ
28 August, 1999

© Copyright 2001 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
Watersign6
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1 posted 2001-06-03 05:00 PM


oh my Sunshine,this just talk right to my heart an i can see the picture so clear you paint so well with your words here,love it

ethome
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2 posted 2001-06-03 05:03 PM


Bravo Karilea for this one!  Keep up the good work my dear poet friend!!

                     "Native grasses on ground never tilled, growing grassroots deep
                       Turkeyfoot, Indiangrass, bluestem grasses that still do keep
                         a watch on the land, Indian land, native land at its best
                           keeping land, virgin land, that is the greatest test."

Marsha
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3 posted 2001-06-03 05:04 PM


Kari dear heart, utterly wonderful, such a wonderful write and Thank you for reposting it, because I've missed lots. Even when I've been fussocking about in the archives I miss loads of goodies.

Fabulous writing excellently presented I love it. Outstanding work

        Take care
          Love and always
              Puck
              
                

Take back the hope you gave,- I claim
Only a memory of the same
Robert Browning



Mabel A. Dilley
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4 posted 2001-06-03 06:05 PM


Thank you for sharing. My comment is long; therefore, a poem is born.

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

walker
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5 posted 2001-06-03 06:17 PM


I never read it the first time, i'm glad for the repost. Very beautiful indeed makes you want to be there.
Interloper
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6 posted 2001-06-04 09:24 AM


You just did and I saw it clearly.

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


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