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kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

0 posted 2004-01-09 10:49 AM

White out in Portland

I’m deep in my igloo
Struggling with a frozen keyboard.
Echos of keystrokes bounce off snowbanks,
Clattering like light machine gun fire.
Frustrated cursings resonate
With a deeper voice than I have.

Shingles and treelimbs quiver
Like tuning forks, conducted
By a rogue virago, standing
In for Mother Nature.
Crows slide on frozen snow
while autos don wrinkles.

Cross country skiers cavort
on trails of neighborhood streets.
Children, freed from school’s tedium,
gambol in weather hookey.
Rhododendrons droop
with ice-lined eyebrows.

Buses, like swollen sardine tins,
wobble through the slush.
Merchants eye their doors
that do not open.
Travelers pack the restrooms
while frozen aircraft watch.

Soleil Noir
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since 2001-12-19

Posts 688
USA

1 posted 2004-01-09 10:51 AM

The imagery in this is superb!
Well done, KayJay...
I do hope you thaw out soon!

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2004-01-09 10:52 AM

liked this... the images and the flow all add to the overall "mood" of being snowed in...

good stuff

Terrina
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since 2003-12-31

Posts 166
California

3 posted 2004-01-09 01:02 PM

This is great. I've never seen snow, and you've showed it to me in full force. Thank you. Now I know I probably never want to see it;-)

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2004-01-09 01:07 PM

I've heard of snow days where you just don't move, everything shuts down....

my brother sent me some pictures of the last great snow in Virginia...covered the tops of the cars in the parking lot

I'm so glad I'm in Florida

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

5 posted 2004-01-09 01:18 PM

Great imagery in this, Kayjay. I heard it was snowing up there. I'd like to see a bit of it here...a very tiny bit!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2004-01-09 01:21 PM

Oooh Ken! You make me want to jump on the next flight to Portland.
You are teasing me with this snowy write!

Love the imagery...fantastic!
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

In the midst of winter..
I found there lives within me,
an invincible summer.

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

7 posted 2004-01-09 01:21 PM

Cross country skiers cavort
on trails of neighborhood streets.
Children, freed from school’s tedium,
gambol in weather hookey.
Rhododendrons droop
with ice-lined eyebrows.

Wonderful imagery Ken! Enjoyed. Chris

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

kayjay
Member Elite

since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

8 posted 2004-01-09 01:24 PM

The sunshine folks are checking in
with words of awe and praise.
But also they are very glad
that they don't have these days.
For all who sent their kindness here
I welcome them with all good cheer. Ken

(We've had 4 days of being totally homebound, often even too slick to walk outside.)

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

9 posted 2004-01-09 01:38 PM

Oh my, and Ken, I'm the one that's
always wanting to see the snow that you and
Nancy Lee write about. Now, this may be just a
little too much snow. LOL I guess I'll
just stick to the sand. LOL

Hugs

Ethel

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

10 posted 2004-01-09 02:49 PM

you write of it well, but please keep it where you are, i want to be snow free for a while, thanks

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

11 posted 2004-01-09 03:01 PM

Congratulations
on your 1,000th post
KayJay!

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

12 posted 2004-01-11 07:02 PM

(big hugggsssssss) Oh my gosh, I heard about that peculiar Pacific storm two weeks ago, all the way from Seattle to Las Vegas! (giggles) I am moving to Portland May of 2005 and I guess I can't be sure I'll be free from the snow entirely now when going there, where I've been told it rarely snows here! God Bless You, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Ken, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"You'll find something that's enough to keep you
But if the bright lights don't receive you
You should turn yourself around and come back home" MB20

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