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LineChimeTimes - for Corinne
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LineChimeTimes - for Corinne |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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LineChimeTimes – for Corinne It should have been noisy, but lively living child in me played too hard to notice outwardly noises ~ after all, the noisy 50’s LA wasn’t all that deafening, yet. We moved up coast, to a tiny town, where songbirds lived long, and loud…living, and proud… then we moved southerly again, not to LA, but to where valleys sucked us in, verdant, well lived, where deep holding sounds of lungs held fruit… but not so far from where the earth didn’t rumble; not lunging from underground faults, always, but overhead, in anti-missile-missile protection lines of tests in strength; where rumble addicted lives loved… hear the sound, move out to watch… will it go beyond sight? Will it detonate in despair? LineChimeTimes… Later, I moved to the Midwest… silly me…naïve beyond reproach… economy driven Illinois in the ‘70’s, visiting family in the boonies, as their land was christened, rural, to me…simply rurally beautifully intact… and then I heard, in a dark cool December, missiles…rumbling through God’s night, but different, sounding east to west, not south to north… I mumbled, questioning, “Missiles? Out here?” “Trains,” they said… trains… I listen closer, now. Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen? Keeping in mind, I must stand close... [This message has been edited by Sunshine (06-08-2004 08:40 AM).] |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
And what do you hear these days? The memories we associate with sounds seem to last forever, and re-visit us in dreams. Now I'll be thinking about trains again, LOL. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Karilea, you know how to make a person's day, don't cha?  Loved this poem. I'll cherish it. Thank you! Corinne |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Fantastic array of sights and sounds... You my dear DO have an amazing talent for putting your thoughts and memories into words. Hugs YOU! ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
outstanding visions you have associated here with many memories....I love reading you. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
and sometimes you teach us to listen closer too  |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
 missle sounds....I hear them at least a couple of times a week. Enjoyed. ....jo |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Karilea, Love your write. Nice. I was five when the first missile rumbled by our back yard in the dark. I got in bed with my little brother to comfort him. Wish he had woken up!  If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. |
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kayjay Member Elite
since 2002-06-24
Posts 2015Oregon |
LA in the fifties was part of my life...and it was good then, still quaint in its way, sometimes you could see Catalina or the San Gabriel Mts...or play hookey in them. Great years. Thank you. KJ Through rubble and trouble and dark of night |
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