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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2002-11-06 08:37 PM

Grounded Clouds

Looking down to seek the blue
a shorter distance to full view
a bit of wisp among the leaves
a curb led thought, in believe.

If I step out, who will know?
Will it be down, or up, I go?
Wet leaves waiting, to touch the sky
here they linger, in search of high.

That puddles hold small life, it’s known
A puddle here, it’s true, is shown;
But can you see the dream of thought?
Who’d have known what a puddle’d wrought?

Gentle Spirit
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1 posted 2002-11-06 08:40 PM

I have never quite looked at a puddle this way before Kari.......it is amazing what we can see if we just take the time.....to look. Well done hon!

NewEnglandlazurlu
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A Mountain Paradise

2 posted 2002-11-06 08:42 PM

Fascinating! I can't wait to go out tomorrow and look at the puddles our big storm of today left behind.

True inspiration and imagination.

Hugs, Marti

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

WhiteRose
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since 2002-07-23

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somebody's dungeon

3 posted 2002-11-06 09:45 PM

This is truly lovely. What a wonderful picture and the verse is perfect. I enjoyed the sight and the read of this. Nicely done.

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

4 posted 2002-11-06 09:49 PM

Love the pic and the words..
Well done...love it!
~Hugs~

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before.~

Connel

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since 2002-11-04

Posts 736
Florida, USA

5 posted 2002-11-06 10:11 PM

I swear that poem is one of the best.. I really loved it.. Your are a very good poet.. I just love reading your poems!

I wish to become a great poet some day, but it will only come in time. Til then, I shall write my poems, and wait.

Auguste

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By the sea

6 posted 2002-11-06 10:14 PM

I have puddles like that here, only they reflect oak limbs heavy with Spanish moss, pelicans...and me on the way to the salt marsh with a rod & reel over my shoulder.

Just lovely...and such a pretty picture to go along with it.

The stars will shine when I am gone,
the earth will turn on as before,
the gulls, still race along the shore,
the morning star, still kiss the dawn

Spiros Zafiris
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since 2002-10-20

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Canada

7 posted 2002-11-06 10:18 PM

.Sunshine../\..yes, dreams and clouds; puddle, too..nicely written; songlike and
intricate..enjoyed much..
../\..Spiros

------------------lyric---------

palmerj
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since 2002-11-06

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Coxsackie, NY

8 posted 2002-11-06 10:18 PM

This poem is a great example of all the little things that we as people just glance over in our hectic lives. I for one tomorrow am going to take a little time to observe somethign and maybe right a little about it if all goes well. I'll post it in this forum if I get the chance.

Marsha

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Maidstone Kent England

9 posted 2002-11-07 11:06 AM

Kari darling heart sister I really love this , but of course you know that, you are remarkable perceptive, and this is simply divine. The touch of your words fluttering within the spirit of this, rise from the page to dance in lyrical wonder into the very stuff of my soul. I truly am breathless with delight, truly you write with starlight.

If I could hold the starlight
And wrap it in a cloak of might
I would drape its silvered glow
Around your soul just like so
If within the thought of touch
I could gift you with this much
I would whisper yes to the air
Send it flying away to where
The words stroke across your soul
Rising to fill the aching hole
The possible within the sigh
The wondering of pleasure’s aye
If I could gift this dreamers might
I would unwrap hope’s delight

You know I truly love this, you really are an amazing poet

Love and warm stuff
As always
Mushy

Breathe through the heat of our desire
Thy coolness and they balm
Let sense be dumb let flesh retire
Speak through the earthquake wind and fire

Sunnyone
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Staffordshire, England

10 posted 2002-11-07 11:19 AM

Oh, this is the best yet!!!!! You have the gift of pointing our minds in new directions, and I for one always enjoy seeing things that I may not have noticed before!! Thank you.....

Pen how you truly feel...
it is a safety-valve for the soul!

Martie

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California

11 posted 2002-11-07 11:48 AM

Oh yes, Sunshine,
I can see you in a puddle
and you are beautiful!

vlraynes
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Somewhere... out there...

12 posted 2002-11-07 11:52 AM

Karilea~
There's nothing like a good rain storm
and the puddles it leaves behind.
Enjoyed this, my friend.
Hugs,
~Vicky
"...until you have read the verse on his heart,
you have not truly met the poet.
~vlraynes

RSWells
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13 posted 2002-11-07 11:54 AM

Cool photo. Artistic to see things from a different perspective. As I grow I learn that art inspires art. I saw a program (I usually avoid TV) about interpreting dreams and a woman who lives on Nantucket (jealous I) found escape from her harsh reality of depression and nightmares by photographing images straight from their reflections off water's surfaces. They were beautiful and she claims to have found a peace in art's endeavor. I hope we all may. Enjoyed

garysgirl

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Florida, USA

14 posted 2002-11-07 12:10 PM

Karilea, I love the way you can bring beauty to us even from a mud puddle !!! You are a speciat poetess, dear lady. Thanks for sharing your wonderful thoughts.

Love makes the world go 'round (unkown)
with love and hugs from Ethel

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

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British Columbia, Canada

15 posted 2002-11-07 12:25 PM

I read your poem then Richard's comment, and I too agree that there is such peace in the art of photography and the beauty found there is so real. This picture is incredible of course, but reminds me of a ski accident I had...optical illusion, thought I was landing on snow but it was the sky reflecting on it, and BANG, I had over-rotated a jump, and that hurt! Why am I telling you all this LOL. See what the artform does? Lovely poem and presentation, and I too find solice in my camera.

A smile costs nothing, give one away and make someone rich.

SmartChick
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On A Journey To The Unknown

16 posted 2002-11-07 01:05 PM

This is a perfect poem for this picture. I like it.

sigheyes
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the winds of destiny

17 posted 2002-11-07 01:26 PM

Beautiful a

passing shadows
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displaced

18 posted 2002-11-07 01:33 PM

well I thought this would be about fog...
great piece! Nice perspective.

brian madden
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ireland

19 posted 2002-11-07 02:21 PM

That puddles hold small life, it’s known
A puddle here, it’s true, is shown;
But can you see the dream of thought?
Who’d have known what a puddle’d wrought?

well that's the last time I go splashing in puddles, I could be responsible for the death of countless little life forms. LOL
but seriously, your muse has given us another fine piece to relish.

I used to make phantoms I could later chase images of all that could be desired then I got tired of counting all of these blessings"h.devoto magazine

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