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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2003-09-06 06:55 PM

Turns on a Day

“Loving sunshine, I have lately been
as satisfied beneath skylights
as I have beneath stars.
Only the rain worries me.
I worry that it won’t come.
I worry that it will.”

Ron McKuen - from "Celebrations of the Heart", 1973

…and that was when I climbed
the garret of his mind
shelving myself between
parchment and ink

whispering someday

someday I will write…

for I had been called sunshine
and was loved as sunshine
by the he in my life,
as much as the rain
but with less worry…

he should have worried.

He should have worried that just as
sunbeams can leak through
blinds,
shadows of thought can leak
back out

so when it rained
and the river rose
as rivulets streamed down
the banks

he banked his dollars elsewhere.

In the morning sun
he was still wet
and his change hung heavy

but parchment doesn’t lie
even though, at times,
ink bleeds,

even after it has dried.

Interesting, how long ago
turns on a day.

JilGirl
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since 2003-05-24

Posts 364
Washington

1 posted 2003-09-06 07:16 PM

Interesting, how long ago
turns on a day.

I like this ending and it's
so very true!

Enjoyed this write! WELL done!

'Tiz feathers that make the bird -
Always remember to keep them fluffed
but, never, EVER ruffle them!

[This message has been edited by JilGirl (09-06-2003 07:17 PM).]

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

2 posted 2003-09-06 07:41 PM

Interesting, how long ago
turns on a day.

So true so true...how do you do this?
Your poems are always so captivating and filled with so much charm Sunshinygirl.

keeping this.

M

fate is not just
whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

(Ani DiFranco)

QjQ
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since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
U.S.A.

3 posted 2003-09-06 08:50 PM

fabulous penning lady poetess

Paul Wilson

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since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

4 posted 2003-09-06 08:51 PM

Sunshine...A touching poem. Questions unanswered. Thanks for sharing...Paul

"To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you"

[This message has been edited by Paul Wilson (09-06-2003 08:52 PM).]

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

5 posted 2003-09-06 09:06 PM

Sun, this says so much about romance and
relationships....In your style that is so
very good...

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

6 posted 2003-09-06 10:14 PM

I'll just bet even Rod knew you were called Sunshine then.

Love this one Karilea...filled with nostalgia.
~Smiles & Tender Hugs~

~ Summer can't be over...
I still have sand in my shoes ~

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

7 posted 2003-09-07 10:59 AM

Oh this is fine! It's bringing me a sense of today as a day that might bring that turning, and that someday might be the past that's turned by yet another day.

As long as you can trace the outline of those letters, it doesn't matter that the ink may run. In fact, it may make the words more beautiful for the distress of time they show.

Send me a verse sometime, eh?

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