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Centuries Ago |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA 
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Rubble in sleeping piles, a grass infested mound. Once the strength of a lion’s heart. Now mere sleeping sentinels, unfit even for the growing green reaching out…crying for release. Might this cold stone have once been a haven for garrisons, for children running within a courtyard as beggars squabbled over mere fragments of nothingness and maidens giggled at the thought of a knight’s caress, perhaps a kiss beyond the gate among the bushes where hearts once beat rapidly and a sigh escaped into the still of a night’s air… where womanhood was born… Sounds of the flute and lyre echoing among the broken pillars of a once mighty gate, now lying asleep at the bottom of a shallow moat vacant of the bones, the screaming plummet that scaled the walls to conquer and kill, or die their own worthless death in a conquest gone awry… Stand, feel the breeze flow across the brow as the echoes of the courtyard still call into the night air…Flickering fires of the mind dancing the shadows now dead…. Even as a mist covered moon wanes in the dawn of light and day returns to the rubble…as grasses grow stubbornly….and dancers dance merrily in a courtyard of centuries ago.. As stones crunch beneath the feet where tears once flowed red into the ravine and love was made among the bushes now gone… From centuries ago. |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
Oh....you mean back when I was born?....Yea, I remember someone telling me about back then....think it was Balladeer...he was a teenager then.....nice write maggie....you can't be a terribly normal person and come up with the things you come up with....maybe that's why I like you so much? |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
I've had such thoughts...and been places you could feel the ages before... you capture this well..and in great form as always... |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Barry Nice trip back. Penned very well with images galore for the imagination.....enjoyable! |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
I was lucky enough to stand amongst the ancients ruins of a greek theatres, few temples and an ancient town in Sicily. I remember sitting on the steps of the theatre and wondering these same thoughts. Glad you put it to words the way only you can, vivid storytelling. I really must say I love your work raph |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Magnus A painting with a palette knife and plenty of color, enjoyed. |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
All your works are brilliant...but I find it interesting that some draw the attention of the ladies...and others are for the manly men. Liked this piece...could feel the cold slick of ancient ruins. TD |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
This is evocative. I really enjoyed it. Nan (Pilgrim variety) |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
 quote: Courtesy, www.kgs.ukans.edu/Extension/KSplaces As I read this, my mind went here, to the castle where I have walked. Thank you for the visit... [This message has been edited by Sunshine (12-10-2002 04:54 PM).] |
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regards2you Member Elite
since 2002-10-01
Posts 3940California |
Barry, You took me back in time. A great story-teller you are. And, you did manage to get a little romance in there, too. Liked the entire poem. My son visited many castles on a recent trip to Scotland. Many of his photos, some of ruins, remind me of this story, and some of what he had learned regarding such. Warm regards, Pat  ..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Barry A fine piece of writing, my friend. You keep getting better and better. |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Wonderful words dear Magnus!! Chris "Hope" is the thing with feathers- |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
how do you pull these out? amazing! |
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Sandpiper Senior Member
since 2002-06-15
Posts 738land of flora and fauna |
could hear the flute and lyre as I read--enjoyed the journey! "And it was at that age...Poetry arrived in search of me...And something started in my soul." |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
Barry, at the end of your poem, a part of me stayed there... -MVS "AS ABOVE SO BELOW" |
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