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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2002-02-23 09:41 AM

The Fisherman’s Daughter…

Sunwarmed pier boards
tingling bared feet
salt spray attaching to
golden highlights
aurora crowned daughter
tagging dad’s footsteps
teach me to fish

She squints her
eyes over the bluegreen sea
making the shimmer more
in her memory
teach me to fish

First lesson, the rod - useless
without a reel ~
casting is taught and be
careful of who is behind you
for we shall snag nothing
but trouble if we don’t
watch our back…
teach me to fish

Now fish forward, only
taking enough to feed
yourself and a friend,
giving back to the sea
what someone else needs…
teach me to fish

~*~

Lessons come with gifts ~
memories harbor laughter ~
sands of time shoal
our souls ~

and this is written,
for a fisherman’s daughter
who remembers

this is for you…

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
23 February 2002

Larry C

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1 posted 2002-02-23 09:43 AM

Karilea,
I'll always love a daddy's girl. Fabulous...just fabulous. Thanks.

Rex Allen McCoy
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2 posted 2002-02-23 09:47 AM

Next lesson ... if it doesn't fit your foot ... throw it back for the next guy

I loved this poem ... just the right amount of everything within

Mistletoe Angel

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3 posted 2002-02-23 10:06 AM

(big huggsssss) This is such a gorgeous tribute to your father and to many loving and compassionate fathers out there who harbor all the love and laughter they can give to last a lifetime for their children! (kiss on cheek) We all love you so much, sweet friend, this is excellent! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

RSWells
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4 posted 2002-02-23 10:16 AM

I'm glad the Sun shines on your memories. Enjoyed

Martie

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5 posted 2002-02-23 10:20 AM

Karilea:

I love the lessons in this and the way you presented it. I think you must have been standing next to me on the pier.

I remember the sun touched my hair
and the boards were scarred and splintered
and all around was lively air
that took my perfect well placed cast, anyway,
and angled it and twisted it just so
around the wooden post where seabird sat
in apparent nonchalance.

This bait was better fish
than any I could perceive in the undulating
murky depth before me, I thought,
and took to tossing it in the air
for free falling seagull catch game
which charmed me more and made the gnarled
man next to me with full bucket, smile.

And so I passed the day
catching happiness

Poet deVine

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6 posted 2002-02-23 12:12 PM

Sounds like you wrote a Norman Rockwell here! I really enjoyed this.

amusemi
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7 posted 2002-02-23 12:50 PM

((giggles))...for the most part, it was my mother who taught me to fish...

I love this...very well done!!!

PearlsB4Swine
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where the heart finds me

8 posted 2002-02-23 01:17 PM

What wonderful lessons we can all learn if we listen well.
Sunshine, you really sketched an endearing portrait of
a daughter and a Dad, in their best light.
PB4S

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