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Crossing The River
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Crossing The River |
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icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA 
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In shimmer and glory of morning the last blink of hope’s eye is carried away on the rolls of staccato drumbeats All breath held for miracles has been heard in a sigh sifted by spades and channeled across the wide, wide river Her surreal mist guards an intense longing for buried treasures Heartbeats stretch with each note of trumpeted solace God is nigh Tears and sweat and blood shall make this fertile ground for a new century No monument will ever stand Higher, Greater, Longer than the humanity that readied the garden in which the last of the angels will sleep |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
No monument will ever stand Higher, Greater, Longer than the humanity that readied the garden in which the last of the angels will sleep ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ icequeen, I too watched in tears the closing of Ground Zero today... This is one incredible write describing the scene and your personal thoughts as well... Wonderful tribute, delicately, and reverently depicted. ~Hugs for this keeper~ |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Icequeen, a fitting Tribute... thank you... |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
A sad chapter closed and you expressed this well! |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
IceQueen~ I've been touched so tenderly with today's events ... you just touched me again~ 'No monument will ever stand Higher, Greater, Longer than the humanity that readied the garden in which the last of the angels will sleep' Such moving thoughts ... thank you~ ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA |
Thank you all for your kind responses. I was touched by the solemnity of the ceremony today... and thanking God that not one politician stood up to pontificate and posture over what it all means. It was respectful and dignified, as well it should be. and then the words just kind of tumbled out  ...and her crown was formed by the ice in her eyes |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
This is a stunningly wonderful piece! Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. |
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