I Will Shed You Feathers - repost, for Martie

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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2004-06-13 08:36 PM

I Will Shed You Feathers

They say those that have crossed over leave a little way
to give a keepsake of themselves each and every day
to those that will really listen, who suffer, feel and hear
hearken closely to my plan, what I shall do for you, my dear…

I shall for you shed feathers, daily, one by one
in the darkness of the night to be seen in daylight’s sun
I shall leave them all around, and when you’re very blue
you shall see, there lies a feather, and know I’ve thought of you.

I shall loose for you a feather, and recollect will spark
when you pick up chestnut feathers of the lovely lark
hear then there the trills and notes of its favored song
and not miss me for a moment, but instead, just sing along.

I shall shower down a feather, before your feet shall lay
a reminder that I was here to start your every day.
Angels all around me, shall shed their feathers free
just so that you might know that you are here with me.

So when you see a feather lightly settle down by you
validate my love, my dear, know that here’s a clue
I shall stroll beside you, and find you in your nights
When you see shed feathers, let them be your guiding flight.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
15 August 2000
revised 8 October 2002

Martie

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1 posted 2004-06-13 08:41 PM

Sniff sniff

You forgot your own kleenex warning! Oh, I love this...the whole idea of it has always been something I believed, but you wrote it so beautifully. Thankyou, dear friend!

Bonnie j
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2 posted 2004-06-13 09:08 PM

Oh! This is so beautiful I want to cry.I have been feeling weepy all day, no reason just because. Now I think I'll go cry.
See Ya
Hugs BonBon

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3 posted 2004-06-13 09:12 PM

Beautiful message Karilea...
Oh my how I love this!
Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

Patricia
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4 posted 2004-06-13 09:24 PM

Yes! My how my reading this evening fits so nicely into my thoughts...but isn't that the way it should be?

Beautiful, K.

Patricia

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5 posted 2004-06-13 09:38 PM

This is so lovely what an outstanding idea

kayjay
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6 posted 2004-06-13 11:21 PM

Looks like all the kleenex words have been used up, so I'll weep dry-eyed. Beautiful KJ

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

iliana
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7 posted 2004-06-14 12:06 PM

This was such a special poem, Sunshine. Isn't it interesting how almost no one can walk by a feather without noticing? So glad you reposted this.

...jo

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8 posted 2004-06-14 01:26 AM

Oh that is truly the most beautiful thing I think I have ever read that you have written.

Nightshade

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just out of reach

9 posted 2004-06-14 09:31 AM

Library bound is this jewel.
Hugging you for your tender heart Karilea.
Chris

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Anderson

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10 posted 2004-06-14 09:51 AM

Karilea,
   I wondered what the feathers were about near my sidewalk.  Here I thought that it was just one of my son's 4-h chickens that had sprung loose in the yard.  Now I won't be so harsh on him to pick up those feathers!  Rather, I'll treasure them, thinking of you and your precious poem.
   Perfectly written and shared.
                Sadelite

Mysteria

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11 posted 2004-06-14 01:19 PM

Now this has truly inspired me to write of a feathered friend again! I shall be back with my feather after watching two little angels for a day or so

Wanted to print it to put into my bag, to show my girls.

JL
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12 posted 2004-06-14 03:34 PM

So Nice!

JL

She said: ”You look cute in the dark.”

suthern

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13 posted 2004-06-16 10:36 AM

What an incredibly lovely gift... heart to heart. *S*

Sadelite
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14 posted 2004-06-16 11:07 AM

Glad suthern brought this up again. The perfect read for an Ohio rainy day.
Sadelite

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15 posted 2004-06-16 08:38 PM

Yes....just so.

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