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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2002-01-19 07:38 AM

Souls Like Crystal Snowflakes

Just a few short hours ago,
During midnight it chanced to snow
And early, around 3:00 a.m. or so,
I awoke to a glisten of glow.

There was no sound, no apparent life,
As only in a fairy tale’s dream,
Imagine souls like crystal snowflakes,
Come to dance upon my scene.

For there was a sparkle all around
And lo, over the land covered white,
The skies had cleared and the moon abound,
Snowflake souls and I, alone in this night.

For each flake was a spirit of one
Before it joined its companions white
And like my world, they all joined in
United, to make things ensue just right.

So may souls like crystal snowflakes
Thrive round you this year;
And keep in mind during summer;
Rainbows will keep them here.

©KRJ
11 January 2000
revised 19 January 2002

ethome
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New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2002-01-19 07:42 AM

There really is something mystical and soothing in the falling snow and in the scene thereafter. It gives a soul a chance to reflect in peace!
This is so pretty and deep.
"There was no sound, no apparent life,
                                As only in a fairy tale’s dream,
                              Imagine souls like crystal snowflakes,
                                Come to dance upon my scene."

Nice writing my friend...you're definitely a thinker!

How's things anyway?

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

2 posted 2002-01-19 09:06 AM

Oh Karilea, you have captured the feel and imagery of this perfectly. The quiet hush as the snow blankets the earth,...to the souls of each crystal snowflake. Beautiful!
Thank you for this one...I love the snow!
~Hugs, Nancy~

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So you won't ever forget me~

Gentle Spirit
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3 posted 2002-01-19 09:58 AM

This whispers to me with a peaceful feeling Sunshine. So soft and beautiful...

On the wings of words our spirits fly....and our souls are free.
~Me~

(I could have missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the dance~Garth)

strbbux
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4 posted 2002-01-19 10:02 AM

Sunshine, you have won my heart I am a snow lover, and I alway am so amazed when I read a poem and see lines or words I have used and not yet posted, like" glisten of glow" mine is " glistening glow" another poet also remarked on how she wrote similar to some of mine, I guess in the end we all think alike. I love this, it is wonderfully written and the title just grabbed me. floria

ellie LeJeune
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5 posted 2002-01-19 10:39 AM

Karilea, dear friend, we are waiting for those first flakes to fall here in PA and your most loveliest of poems will enhance the beauty all the more for me! Glorious poetry! Bravo! Hugs, Ellie

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

craigrk
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6 posted 2002-01-19 01:13 PM

Beautiful, it just started here as I'm reading your poem. thanks.

Silver Streak
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7 posted 2002-01-19 01:24 PM

Karilea, I love to see a beautiful new snow. And when sunshine first looks down on a new snow, isn't it pretty how it sparkles?

-newell

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Copyright: 2002 Newell Elsworth Usher

Ivy Rose
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8 posted 2002-01-19 01:57 PM

Wonderful comparison...the snow and the snow of the soul. REALLY ENJOYED THIS ONE.

***IVY ROSE

Mistletoe Angel

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9 posted 2002-01-19 02:04 PM

(smiles) Sooooooo beautiful, sweet friend, you always write the most gorgeous visions! (kiss on cheek) May we all be enthralled by the beauty of snowflakes this winter and to the sprouting rainbows in the summer and so many other beautiful things of nature! We all love you so much, sweet friend, such sweet serenity fills your words! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shin eupon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

rwood
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10 posted 2002-01-19 02:18 PM

Thank you for making my winter so beautiful. I really needed that. Very much!

Sincerely,
Regina

Nightshade

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just out of reach

11 posted 2002-01-19 02:30 PM

So may souls like crystal snowflakes
Thrive round you this year;
And keep in mind during summer;
Rainbows will keep them here

Sunshine - Thankyou for this lovely poem. Chris

Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away.

Mysteria

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British Columbia, Canada

12 posted 2002-01-19 08:23 PM

Well I a definitely smiling up here in the greenbelt, with the snow behind me up yonder hills. Every time I look up there I will be thinking of those crystals and the coming rainbows too.
I loved this, but wanted to see a picture of a snow fairy dancing in the snow on the poem,
so I whispered the poem and poof, there it was, an image of you!

~* CARPE' DIEM *~

[This message has been edited by Mysteria (01-19-2002 09:25 PM).]

Butterflies_dont_cry
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13 posted 2002-01-19 08:52 PM

I want to thank you so much for this poem tonight, I haven't been in the forums much but when I do take an occasional stroll through there seems to be one or two poems that call to me like whispers on the wind...yours was one of them tonight...a beautiful serene write my friend. Thank you for sharing this~

Saunni
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14 posted 2002-01-19 08:56 PM

Sunshine, this is beautiful, simply beautiful! Thanks for a whole new way to look at the snow.

Sauni @~~~>~~

The Sun Shines
Not On Us, But In Us
The River Flows Not Past,
But Through Us

Madame Chipmunk
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15 posted 2002-01-19 09:08 PM

This poem is so beautiful, Karilea...that it almost seems sacred.
I love the way a new fallen snow looks in the middle of the night...So peaceful, like your lovely poem.

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Startime
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16 posted 2002-01-19 09:16 PM

*sigh* it is not snowing here but I can see and feel the magic of it from your words. Stunning. I love it. **big hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

A Whisper's Caress
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on the horizon of a fairytale

17 posted 2002-01-19 09:22 PM

Nothing to teach you here, this is perfectly beautiful just the way it is....

Midnitesun

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Gaia

18 posted 2002-01-19 10:42 PM

"So may souls like crystal snowflakes
Thrive round you this year;
And keep in mind during summer;
Rainbows will keep them here."

I really needed to read this tonight. Thank you. It just may help me make it through the night.

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