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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2003-10-14 08:37 PM

Reasons to Keep Walking…

October
is like this
when a late afternoon walk
makes you appreciate the half-warm,
half-cool sides of you, dependent
[already] on which
is sun-side up, when turning in circles
is the only answer.

Somewhere out there, a train runs through the town,
marking time in miles.

I still find me stepping to miss
sidewalk cracks, even though
that back is no longer here
to bear any burden
I might lay upon it, so these
still in need thoughts,
well, I keep them to myself

for this is October readying me
when a day in November
will hold me quiet,
like clichéd fine crystal framing
that green glint from her eyes
I remember so well…

In this week’s end,
a fall into autumn will expect me
to find that in nine, I shall still
be here, in health,
expecting even more years
to greet me,
and I won’t fear any familial predisposition
or a too-early demise…

so, I will wander my week’s end
in reds and golds, wave goodbye to green
and pull grains of life to me,
not in fear of anything, just sorry
she’s not here to count the
growing smiles she left behind.

PsychoticBunni
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1 posted 2003-10-14 08:40 PM

sweet. wholesome. lovely. everything October is.

Meg

Meg- And the Texan pushed the Mexican out of the plane and screamed, "Long live the ALAMO!!!!!!!!!"

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

2 posted 2003-10-14 08:43 PM

"so, I will wander my week’s end
in reds and golds, wave goodbye to green
and pull grains of life to me,
not in fear of anything, just sorry
she’s not here to count the
growing smiles she left behind."
=============================================
So very hard to finish reading with the tears blurring the monitor.
I know this feeling of missing a loved one..
yet walking on, smiling in memory.
Autumn is a good time for that.....yes.
~Warm hugs~

~Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile~

Magnus

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3 posted 2003-10-14 09:37 PM

Bringing hugs and tissues!!!

Excellent, if only I could pen those thoughts
as well as you do...

Patricia
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4 posted 2003-10-14 09:38 PM

Tissue alert warning needed here, Karilea! I just want to hug you, my friend. She is there with you; she is watching over you. But I think you know that, now don't you?

Very touching write.

Patricia

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5 posted 2003-10-14 09:38 PM

I loved the poem and the picture is awsome too

What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?
All walls are great, if the roof doesn't fall.
-yorke/bjork

littlewing
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6 posted 2003-10-14 09:42 PM

ahh Kari I love this line:

makes you appreciate the half-warm,
half-cool sides of you,

stunning and who's grren eyes are these
you speak of? Mad me feel as though
she is lingering . . .

Beautiful writing, always is
xxoo

Janet Marie
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7 posted 2003-10-14 10:37 PM

for this is October readying me
when a day in November
will hold me quiet,
like clichéd fine crystal framing
that green glint from her eyes
I remember so well…
=================================
so, I will wander my week’s end
in reds and golds, wave goodbye to green
and pull grains of life to me,
not in fear of anything, just sorry
she’s not here to count the
growing smiles she left behind.
================================

and the growing library of oh so lovely tender tributes she has inspired in your pen...She is a generous muse and you do her sweet justice with your inked memories Kari.

like clichéd fine crystal framing
that green glint from her eyes

will wander my week’s

reds and golds, wave goodbye to green
and pull grains

*smiling at you*

every time I talk to you its over too soon
every day feels incomplete till you walk into the room
just say the words, I'll jump that moon.

D.Gray

JamesMichael
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8 posted 2003-10-15 12:31 PM

Silky...James

Gentle Spirit
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9 posted 2003-10-15 08:08 AM

so, I will wander my week’s end
in reds and golds, wave goodbye to green
and pull grains of life to me,
not in fear of anything, just sorry
she’s not here to count the
growing smiles she left behind.

~smiling here~
Just beautiful....and so full of knowing....

Cpat Hair

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10 posted 2003-10-15 08:10 AM

bravo my friend... bravo...

Greeneyes

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In Your Poetic Mind

11 posted 2003-10-15 08:49 AM

so, I will wander my week’s end
in reds and golds, wave goodbye to green
and pull grains of life to me,
not in fear of anything, just sorry
she’s not here to count the
growing smiles she left behind.""

Here is where your heart shows, a "walk to always remember" awwww Karilea ya got me with this one....heart hugssss

Lauren~

Will the wind ever remember
the names it has blown in the past
with its crutch, its old age, and its
wisdom it whispers no this won't be the last

Cerenity'sLine
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12 posted 2003-10-15 09:42 AM

Hi Sunshine,

So full of tender emotions, a keepsake of memories,

Cerenity

vandana

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13 posted 2003-10-15 09:59 AM

nice read

Sudhir Iyer
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Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

14 posted 2003-10-15 01:50 PM

Hi Karilea,

I liked this so much... nicely composed thoughts...

Regards
Sudhir
p.s. shall be there in C.A. too...

Corinne
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state of confusion

15 posted 2003-10-15 08:26 PM

Such wonderful, inward reflection here. Sad that she had to go, but glad that you are healthy. We are meant to go on and live, yes?

I come from a family predisposed to diabetes, so I know something of living with this fear. Everyone in my family has this now, except me. I get tested once a year, so far so good. It's scary how one can hear that clock ticking, not the age clock, really, but the dna clock.

Beautiful words, yours,words to live by.

Core

BluesSerenade
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16 posted 2003-10-18 10:48 PM

I needed to take a deep breath before responding to this. The sentiment is lovely and so full of the wonder of life and all that it lays before us...it is a gift indeed. How silly to dwell on the insignificant, I am so guilty of that, shame on me!! Thank you for making me look up, I am truly grateful to have read your poem. I also read Corinne's reply, I to know the horror of diabetes first hand. I miss my Father every single day, he was so young... and this only serves to remind me, that when the going gets tough, if he could do it I can do it, and I am not about to let him or myself down.

Karilea, I will treasure this always....

passing shadows
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17 posted 2003-10-19 05:01 AM

I needed that reminder

NewEnglandlazurlu
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18 posted 2003-10-19 04:38 PM

Karilea ~~ A magnificent write that needed a Kleenex alert! So many lines grabbed at my heart and made me stop and ponder friends and family who have gone on ahead.

Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with us in this piece.

And, I love the picture of you and the baby!
Huggles, Marti

angelblueyes
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19 posted 2003-10-19 04:44 PM

You've captured the month and the season wonderfully.

Crystal

Sunshine

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20 posted 2003-10-19 04:49 PM

So many times, I write for myself, and lay it here, not to see if anyone will read, but simply, to share a moment, to let you get to know me a little better, to allow you a glimpse into my life.

But to see some responses, the "I know" kind of comments, those are the times where I dare think that I may be a poet, if I have touched you, at all.

Thank you, each and every one, for reading, for understanding, for sharing. To me, that is what poetry is all about.

Mistletoe Angel

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21 posted 2003-10-19 05:19 PM

(big hugggsssssssss) The colors of autumn too remind me of this inevitable notion, sweet friend, I have had friends who have passed on and I hold their memory spirits true to my heart and harvest the afterglow always! (sigh) God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sun set and I perceive

***Live***

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