Kansas 1987: A Trilogy for Sunshine

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Open Poetry #14

Kansas 1987: A Trilogy for Sunshine

Mabel A. Dilley
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since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

0 posted 2001-06-03 05:24 PM

At the edge as far as the eye can see
at the center of great high plains
red-grained fields meet blue sky.

Hay rolls fresh from the bailer
dot the countryside, basking
in a ripe Autumn's sun.

Strong and resonate violins
repeat the refrain of
"Peace,peace"
while blue Flint Hills chant
"Freedom, freedom."

My mechanical stallion gulps a
Kansas wind for we are off to the next
horizon, over the next hill.
___

Deep in the heartland of all heritage,
parts of our families lie side by side,
planted beneath wind torn scrub grasses,
deeply committed to Kansas sandstone,
their souls finally free to soar, hang-glide
like the hawk circling above seeking game
among spent and broken corn stalks.
___

In a land where silos are "guardian rook"
and grain elevator "queen" I scatter
your ashes wild to the wind so your soul
may touch the far flung corners of all
that is known of heaven and earth.

Edwin Evans
Grain Fields, 1890 Oil on canvas

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

Sunshine

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1 posted 2001-06-03 05:28 PM

Mabel...thank you SO very much for this trilogy...although not native to Kansas, I have taken to it, as it has hopefully taken to me...

at least, the winds have not yet swept me away...

this is a marvelous write, and it goes directly into my library! Ah, it was just wonderful! Thank you!

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (edited 06-03-2001).]

Mabel A. Dilley
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since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

2 posted 2001-06-03 05:56 PM

Sunshine: wasn't sure what comment to make on your lovely poem...so a birth of a new poem as comment. Thank you.

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

walker
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since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

3 posted 2001-06-03 06:22 PM

Very beautiful, poem/reponse. Well done!

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

4 posted 2001-06-03 06:55 PM

Thank you, Walker. Couldn't pass up the picture.

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

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