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Midnitesun

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Gaia

0 posted 2004-09-05 06:25 PM

Someone said the sky was blue yesterday.
I wouldn’t know, I didn’t go out to greet the day.
Someone else said it rained yesterday.
I wouldn’t know, I didn’t go out to meet the day.
When someone said
somewhere it would be bright again today,
and somewhere else
the skies would cry drenching downpours,
I turned and looked away.
I can see that both are happening,
but shall focus my eyes
on golden poppies
waving in the breeze by coastal seas,
‘neath the glorious rainbow
I keep in my heart’s treasure chest,
for days such as these.

electricxheart
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since 2004-09-05

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far away from home.

1 posted 2004-09-05 06:52 PM

i really loved the imagery
in your piece. it was very
peaceful and hopeful. keep
writing.

-kelly

we all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we really are.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

2 posted 2004-09-05 06:58 PM

Thanks, and welcome to Passions!

time prophet
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In New Zealand Amongst the Ancient Trees

3 posted 2004-09-05 07:46 PM

even on grey days rainbows can fly to lighten the way

Midnitesun

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Gaia

4 posted 2004-09-05 07:48 PM

smiling here, enjoying your outlook
from seagull height

Larry C

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5 posted 2004-09-05 10:55 PM

Kacy,
Rainbows without rain. I like how you think. But then...you knew that.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

passing shadows
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displaced

6 posted 2004-09-06 01:06 AM

days such as these...yes

sigh

iliana
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7 posted 2004-09-06 01:31 AM

Big sigh. I really like your positive way of thinking, Kacy, in addition to this poem which leaves me a peace at the end of a long day.

........jo

kayjay
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8 posted 2004-09-06 11:11 AM

In times like these, the image of poppies always takes me to "In Flanders Fields.", a most memorable war poem. Well written! Ken

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

Midnitesun

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9 posted 2004-09-06 02:41 PM

thanks Ken! I had forgotten that poem, looked it up and here is a copy

It was written by Canadian physician Major John McCrae, in 1915, after witnessing too many deaths in Flanders, Belgium. It's also the name of a cemetary in Belgium, for 368 American soldiers who died in WWI.
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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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