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icebox
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since 2003-05-03

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in the shadows

0 posted 2003-12-06 08:07 AM

Nothing stirs this morning
except the wind;
the birds are hiding
and I would bet
the squirrels are sleeping late;
damn them,
for the ease of mind
they must be keeping for themselves.

Everyone's exhausted here
from shoveling the snow,
I don't sleep much,
so I'm looking out a window
waiting for the wind to change direction.

I've lived here long enough to know
when it begins to blow out of the North
the next storm starts;
I should make cocoa
and measure out the parts for biscuits
so there's food for when they awake.

In these quiet times
I can look across the years
without judgment
at all the other waiting moments
I've spent watching for life's storms,
listening for footsteps
or the shriek of flying shell,
or the oddly funny thump
before a mortar fell.

It is true,
that the past is another country
and I realize I don't live there anymore,
but there's value in remembering;
it's a simple means
of measuring my own progress
through each passing life,
of marking every door
in the hallways of my soul.

©2003 by icebox

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2003-12-06 08:22 AM

icebox
A well defined moment of pause. Enjoyed

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

2 posted 2003-12-06 09:34 AM

I'm doing the same just now, but without any storms -- weather storms, anyway....

Thanks for taking the many moments it takes to share one.

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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2003-12-06 09:44 AM

Good morning, icebox....it is good to pause and remember, in order to find your place again, I think. Stay warm hug!

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

4 posted 2003-12-06 09:58 AM

Believe me, Dear Box of Ice, you never "bore" me with your reflective writes! NEVER!

Cold hugs ~ I wouldn't want you to melt away! lol

EA

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

5 posted 2003-12-06 10:20 AM

you touch me in ways you do not even know...thank you being here...and thank you for: you...h

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2003-12-06 12:50 PM

there is value in remembering

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

7 posted 2003-12-06 01:06 PM

...love hearing about your memories.
Hugs~

~ Let peace begin with me...

NewEnglandlazurlu
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since 2002-01-04

Posts 7470
A Mountain Paradise

8 posted 2003-12-06 07:03 PM

You are just an amazing writer and I loved this so much. (And can relate to those tired, sore muscles from shoveling!)

It's always interesting to hear of other's memories. Thank you.

Hugs, Marti

'You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.'
PEACE!!!
Indira Gandhi

S Arthur Grey
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 719
woven by a poet's loom

9 posted 2003-12-15 02:07 PM

This is poetry with "body".
I like it.
I wish I could do it so well.
Thank you.

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

10 posted 2003-12-15 03:12 PM

a most articulating resting moment...time to self explore...don't cha love those times?

excellent write

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