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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2002-01-29 08:56 PM

Suspended Animation

Long in promise, fate decries
   A coming of immobilization

Heaving heavy waves of white
  Having long crossed most
   Of this great nation

Having awaited this moment to perceive
Tinkling sleet hit cold ground
From spring of yesterday
To winter’s lament this eve

Come, I plead, Implore! Come!
I need this shell of frozen crystal to cover
My soul so my dormancy
Does not yield a weakened
Flower come spring…

I need to sleep with the seemingly
Dead for just a while, waiting
To be bear-hugged to life
In eons melt ~

For seasons to pass green one to
Another in calmer, smoother climes
Is one thing, passive resistance
Leading to no conceptual change,
And we do not know why we age…

But where seasons wrench us from
Hot to cold,
Smooth to rough
Allowing an edge of life to meet us
Full in the face
As we test our mettle
While our resolve abounds in the can-do
Attitude of survivors

And we hang, suspended, a frozen
Animation of promise
In a crystal shell

Waiting for the sun to rainbow us
Into tomorrow.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
29 January 2002

SmartChick
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since 2001-09-23

Posts 7081
On A Journey To The Unknown

1 posted 2002-01-29 09:02 PM

Wow Sunshine! You are so good. Wish I could write like you.

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

2 posted 2002-01-29 09:02 PM

BRAVO!!! Such a haunting but beautiful vision, sweet friend, these winters will always come to give us strife when we least desire it, but the rainbows will continue to cast on as the seasons come and go through our heart and spring will again emerge from yesterday and be ours to roll around in today! (kiss on cheek) This is fabulous, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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since 2001-12-19

Posts 3859

3 posted 2002-01-29 09:03 PM

Sunshine this is magnificent.

"And we hang, suspended, a frozen
Animation of promise
"In a crystal shell

Waiting for the sun to rainbow us
Into tomorrow."

Wow wonderful words. I love winter and snow and the picture took my breath away, It has been 50% here and now we are looking at 12 inches of snow coming....oh my....I love it.. this was wonderful. floria

Floria

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them"
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2002-01-29 09:41 PM

Karilea~A wonderful read on the eve of a winter storm watch! I can't wait! And this piece just made me more excited...I need my dormancy, to reflect, and write, and know that winter really was here, and I made it through to yet another spring.
Thank you for this one tonight!
~Hugs, Nancy~

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

Martie

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California

5 posted 2002-01-30 02:12 PM

Karilea...Deep caves of thought awake to write this winter poem. This small snow crystal, already melted..thanks you!

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

6 posted 2002-01-30 02:34 PM

This was just so beautiful and a site I see so often you described better than Nature herself. Hmmm, but the shovelling is a getting to be a real drag here! I loved it, and thank you fram a Gramma being held captive

~* Carpe' Diem *~

Interloper

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since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

7 posted 2002-01-31 06:33 PM

And another foot or so coming your way. Might be a while before that rainbow shows up

SEA

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with you

8 posted 2002-02-01 11:17 AM

"I need to sleep with the seemingly
Dead for just a while, waiting
To be bear-hugged to life
In eons melt ~"
Sunshine, this is wonderful

LngJhnAg
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since 1999-07-23

Posts 3508
Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion

9 posted 2002-02-01 01:50 PM

Nicely penned, Karilea. Are you digging out from under a drift now?

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

10 posted 2002-02-01 03:05 PM

As always...you write with such great depth.
I always enjoy feeling your thoughts...

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

11 posted 2002-02-01 07:03 PM

quote:

And we hang, suspended, a frozen
Animation of promise
In a crystal shell

I like it...

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