Midnight Walk in Battle Creek - yearly repost with a nod north

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Open Poetry #23

Midnight Walk in Battle Creek - yearly repost with a nod north

Sunshine

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0 posted 2002-12-04 07:58 PM

Midnight Walk in Battle Creek

Night and darkness shadowed in
as heavy gray clouds felt of snow
quiet was the air, and thin,
awaiting Mother Nature’s show

O the beauty of a night first born,
a Michigan town, Battle Creek
smells of grape nuts in early morn
for these are memories I keep.

Company had come that night,
good times were had by all,
then it soon chimed come midnight
and snow had begun to fall

Twenty miles east of Kalamazoo
Battle Creek quietly resides,
Kalamazoo has great winds, true,
off Michigan’s great lake side

Battle Creek, a different town,
as quiet reigns over the snow,
instead of drifts and shifting hills
the white just chooses to grow.

Midnight walks on streets of white
a wondrous treat in it’s own,
but this is when magic begins, and
why belief in cherrystones.

Did you know snow has song?
it's heard when winds don’t blow,
crystalline tinkling is taken to heart
and snow fairies softly glow ~

I know, we stood, quiet, still
heard chiming tings softly surround
no one spoke, but shyly descried
as snow came twinkling down.

O Battle Creek of Michigan,
someday I’ll come to visit again.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
29 September, 2000
revised
4 December 2002
Photograph courtesy of PiP

[This message has been edited by Sunshine (12-04-2002 08:22 PM).]

EagleScorpion
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1 posted 2002-12-04 08:04 PM

It is supposed to snow tonight where I live. Thats should be neat to see tommorow, cant wait. It's fun to walk in the snow around midnight.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

2 posted 2002-12-04 08:46 PM

Perfectly beautiful Karilea..
and just as it does look now as we do have snow.
Promise you will return and visit here as well.
Loved this keeper so much.
~Hugs~

~ Life is too short not to believe in Santa Claus ~

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

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Florida, USA

3 posted 2002-12-04 08:58 PM

Well Lady Sunshine, I quite possibly won't see any snow this year,
but I certainly did see it through the words you painted in
this beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing your snow with me.

"Love makes the world go around"
~~with love and hugs from Ethel~~

Martie

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4 posted 2002-12-04 09:31 PM

Karilea--You make snow sound so beautiful, when I know it is really, just cold. A wonderous poem!

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