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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2003-12-21 11:47 AM

Wicked walks the Wonderling
wandering the western winds
on mistral wings,
whispering
within the wounded spider webs
of the shadow world.

The Dryad darlings
of the deepest forest
dance in visions,
braided within
dreams' visions
and sweet remembrances
of diva days of Summer.

Tonight,
the Gates of all realities
may be opened
gently
by the willing
and the righteous,
while warding off
the charlatans
working out their greed.

Simple situations
sometimes start
to set in motion
tiny points of shift
that sift within
the stream of time,
softly swirling
snowlike slips of change.

I think
sometimes we are
the greatest source
of humor for gods
who need distractions
from the task
of being midwives
birthing galaxies.

So set upon the hearth
the thoughts,
and offerings,
brought along
throughout the year gone by,
and try to clarify
all intentions
that may come to mind.

Light the candle,
ring the chime,
recite the ritual
if your soul needs rhyme,
but choose your wishes
carefully to face
the dire chance
they may be granted.

©2003 by icebox

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2003-12-21 11:51 AM

icebox

Much enjoyed reading the alliteration in this well thought out poem...and this

"but choose your wishes
carefully to face
the dire chance
they may be granted."

made me smile.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2003-12-21 12:54 PM

always love your perspective

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2003-12-21 01:58 PM

Wonderful write...
Happy Solstice.
Hugs~

~Let peace begin with me...

Kahlil
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since 2003-04-12

Posts 1881

4 posted 2003-12-21 07:56 PM

"Light the candle,
ring the chime,
recite the ritual
if your soul needs rhyme,
but choose your wishes
carefully to face
the dire chance
they may be granted."

AMEN!!! I love the word play in this. I just love the way you write. "Solstice greetings", if there are such things, or maybe I just made it so... to you, my friend. ~K~

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

5 posted 2003-12-21 10:02 PM

Simple situations
sometimes start
to set in motion
tiny points of shift
that sift within
the stream of time,
Oh, yes! Wonderful write. Chris

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

6 posted 2003-12-22 10:49 AM

Ah, icebox... you make it look easy!

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BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

7 posted 2003-12-22 12:04 PM

So set upon the hearth
the thoughts,
and offerings,
brought along
throughout the year gone by,
and try to clarify
all intentions
that may come to mind.

Especially liked that verse!
This is one of your very best, icebox!!
Fabulous writing, every single word of it!!

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

8 posted 2003-12-22 12:06 PM

Yanno, I always figured you should have had a big part in Lord of the Rings LOL, and now you see this proves it to me! Wonderfully written and not surprisingly either.

Kristabell
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since 2003-11-29

Posts 678
Portland, OR

9 posted 2003-12-22 12:14 PM

Great write, and so true!!

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

10 posted 2003-12-22 02:40 PM

Alliterate me baby!

Very nicely done!

"if you won't let me fall for you
then you won't see the best that I would love to do for you"
~Dido~

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

11 posted 2003-12-22 04:25 PM

Yes, indeed, icebox, you are so right in everything you ... write! I am impressed and humbled.

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

12 posted 2003-12-22 04:43 PM

very nice

James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

13 posted 2004-01-18 10:47 AM

but choose your wishes
carefully to face
the dire chance
they may be granted.

My apologies for making light of something so serious -- but mine was granted this morning. I went back on the boards looking for excellence. Here it is.

~~J

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