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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2004-10-11 07:25 PM

Straddling the Rockies

It would seem easy enough
Given tenacity,
That one could straddle the country,
Small as it is becoming,
And have one’s heart
In two places…

So I stand connected by beach
And sand, surf and pounding waves,
And hear my heart again…
One foot firmly planted in my start…

And I stand, connected by roots
Of long ago, where ancient grasses wave
Me home, and the beaver return
To claim their own, and my stance is steady…

It would seem easy enough,
And I am stubborn enough,
To think I can find happiness in either place,
Small as it is becoming,
And lay my heart, my one heart,
In two places…

Straddling the Rockies.

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

1 posted 2004-10-11 07:27 PM

This made me sigh Karilea.

Nice to read you

Mxx

cuz fate is not just whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

~ani difranco~

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

2 posted 2004-10-11 07:31 PM

you are lucky...a lucky lady to have two places

Spiros Zafiris
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since 2002-10-20

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Canada

3 posted 2004-10-11 07:47 PM

..nice to read..nice to see..melodies so
calming..bravo..

sp

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Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-10-11 07:52 PM

Beautiful Karilea..
I'm so pleased you made that trip 'home'
Love ya lady~

~Autumn..the year's last, loveliest smile.~

Martie

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California

5 posted 2004-10-11 07:56 PM

Karilea

Of course you can! After meeting you I am convinced that you can do anything you set your heart to.

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

6 posted 2004-10-11 08:41 PM

Don't we all wish to blend our roots with our present? Perhaps those that live within their roots are the happiest? Well written! KJ

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

MyHeartofShadows
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since 2004-09-04

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Hyattsville, MD

7 posted 2004-10-11 09:05 PM

Not so sure of the small heart part, but, it is the heart of the poet and I am sure easily at home anywhere. Good Poem

Midnitesun

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Gaia

8 posted 2004-10-11 09:14 PM

Yes, you CAN do this. LOL, you can even straddle the Himalayas if you need to

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

9 posted 2004-10-11 10:01 PM

It isn't an easy choice, to choose, but life has a way of making those decisions for us.

I'll always feel connected to oak trees from living four years in the country, but the ocean will always be calling me.

Lovely, lovely and so strange -- it's very in tune with one I just wrote. We must be on the same "wave" length.

I was wondering if you had a good time out here, I guess I have my answer!

Hugs to you.

Corinne

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In Your Poetic Mind

10 posted 2004-10-11 10:10 PM

So I stand connected by beach
And sand, surf and pounding waves,
And hear my heart again…''
~~

such a beautiful connection....

~~*~~
Read between the lines
look deep into each word
and you will understand the
depth of my soul (GE)
~~**~~

Duncan
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since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

11 posted 2004-10-12 07:28 AM

Love the pics, love the stories.
Welcome back Kari...

babygirlwlove
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since 2004-10-10

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New York City

12 posted 2004-10-12 07:40 AM

there you are....

you weave a deft vision of being torn in two...

**thank you for having me here...I am so enjoying the view***

**babygirL**

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

13 posted 2004-10-12 08:20 AM

can see this
looking up there
at a sky woman
wishing the middle didn't touch

lovely image ms sun

littlewing
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since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

14 posted 2004-10-12 08:48 AM

I have yet to see them, but I seriously doubt I would be able to choose either.
beautiful Kari.

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

15 posted 2004-10-12 10:50 AM

It is not future and past but the difference of where heart and reality dwell for me... That straddle can be both a slip waiting to happen and the very balance that defines life... definitely keeps us aware and awake. *S*

Beautiful work, dear lady... I hope your trip was fantastic... you were missed! *S*

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

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OH

16 posted 2004-10-12 11:02 AM

Sunshine,

It is so good to read your poetry again! I've been pretty busy lately, but when I am able to take a peak at the blue pages, I always look for your name because I know I'll have happy wanderings with each word. And this...it rings so true:

It would seem easy enough
Given tenacity,
That one could straddle the country,
Small as it is becoming,
And have one’s heart
In two places.

cathy/missie

Gentle Spirit
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Posts 13989

17 posted 2004-10-12 12:10 PM

I knew when you got back I would be in for a treat...
lovely this, lovely you...

The greatest beauty on earth, is
found in the hearts of those
who love....

SEA

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with you

18 posted 2004-10-12 12:35 PM

I can definately relate to this one

Much enjoyed

NewEnglandlazurlu
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Posts 7470
A Mountain Paradise

19 posted 2004-10-12 12:41 PM

Karilea ... this is just beautiful and now that I am in the mountains away from the ocean, I can certainly relate.

I am sending my friend, Peg a link to this and I know she will just love it!

hugs, Marti

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
–St. Francis of Assisi

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

20 posted 2004-10-12 03:36 PM

Straddling takes serious flexability.

beautiful Karilea.

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

dingusjr
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since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

21 posted 2004-10-12 06:21 PM

Nice poem AND pics!

James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

Posts 972
Out Making Anticlines

22 posted 2004-10-12 10:52 PM

It would seem to be more than possible....for some of us, I believe it's mandatory.

~~J

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

23 posted 2004-10-12 11:33 PM

I'll meet ya in the tides...my heart stayed there 2 years ago...mountains cant touch the places the waves did.

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