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Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

0 posted 2002-03-28 02:17 PM

~*~
Kansas is an odd place

where else can you find seagulls
massing
over March green
that doesn’t move

They come in with the gulf stream
calling Kansas home [again], then
take thoughts away
back to the sea
and you wonder why
shells are found
in Kansas

The gulls come home,
like their ancestors,
when this vast was under water

How easy to see Kansas again
when someone talks to you
of Dorothy
or Toto

How easy it is to think it just
one way
flat
black and white
dust
and tornadoes

They don’t see vast swellings
of land
nor blowing
of wind

Which is easy to miss
if you are not looking
or feeling

I can create the wind
I can blow
and you would hear

Kansas

But only if I am right by your ear

would you feel it
~*~

Duncan
Member Ascendant

since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

1 posted 2002-03-28 02:23 PM

Then you must be sittin' right here! I will never think or feel the same...about Kansas!

lunatic
Member

since 2001-04-20

Posts 172

2 posted 2002-03-28 02:24 PM

Where the waving wheat can sure smell sweet ...
Wait!
oh, that's not Kansas, is it?

Wonderful piece and I enjoyed every line

Let thy moon arise. William Blake

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

3 posted 2002-03-28 02:25 PM

(smiling) My friend... the wind is calm today inour part of KS.... but if you listen long enough the cottonwoods will still sing for you.

Mistletoe Angel

Member Empyrean

since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

4 posted 2002-03-28 02:35 PM

(smiles) Awwwwwww, I have been through Kansas before, sweet friend, it is so beautiful and mysterious indeed and I love hearing the wind rustling through my ears and rocking the sunflowers! (sigh) This is gorgeous, sweet friend, I love it! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Magnus

Member Laureate

since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

5 posted 2002-03-28 03:56 PM

OH...I do think I would...for you have
described it well...

So that is where all of our seagulls go....

Can't you get them to stay??

Auguste

Member Elite

since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

6 posted 2002-03-28 06:34 PM

This makes me want to visit, but NOT during tornado season.

I'm sure Kansas is a wonderful place and I'm glad to know you like it so much there. As for me, I'll never move away from the ocean again.

Nice one, Karilea!

Stars will shine when I am gone
Earth will spin on as before
Gulls still race along the shore
Morning star, still kiss the dawn

~ M. Auguste

Martie

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

7 posted 2002-03-28 06:49 PM

Karilea

I would love to visit there, interesting about seagulls...and yes, I do hear the wind..yup, it is different then our wind here, must be that sweet voice.

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

8 posted 2002-03-28 08:12 PM

I can create the wind
I can blow
and you would hear

Kansas

But only if I am right by your ear

would you feel it
~*~
Ah Karilea you have given me a case of wanderlust tonight! Now...if I can just find my ruby slippers...perhaps ToTo carried them off. Is it true you have a name for the wind? Mariah, I believe? Perhaps I shall just have to come visit one day. Excellent write my poetess friend!
~Hugs from the dungeon~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

Madame Chipmunk
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

9 posted 2002-03-28 11:39 PM

I can create the wind
I can blow
and you would hear

Kansas

I will never look at Kansas in quite the same way again, Karilea...

Thanks for the beautifully written geology lesson...I never knew about the seagulls and the shells in Kansas.

~hugs~

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

Rex Allen McCoy
Member Elite

since 2000-01-30

Posts 2863
Sippin a Timmy's in London

10 posted 2002-03-29 04:31 AM

Well ... Kansas must be the queen of tickle and the lord of smiles
because this just brought a smile that only lives in soft whispers, from a gentle breath of sunshine

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

11 posted 2002-03-29 06:45 AM

lovely descriptions...I have never been there...but we have seagulls here too and I am not near the ocean...or bay.

*s
M

Krissy
Senior Member

since 2002-02-22

Posts 556
kent England

12 posted 2002-03-29 10:30 AM

Auntie Kari of the golden voice and the wonderful ability of painting with words, with wind whispers. This is a wonderful way to show me Kansas, I really do love the flow of this whispering poem my fabulous aunt, you definitely are an inspiration. THANK YOU ALWAYS

Love and warm stuff
As always
Krissy

And while thy willing soul transpiers
at every pore with instant fires
Andrew Marvell 1621-1678

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