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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2004-11-30 02:06 PM

December was white then

left over snow stuck to hard ground
as new fell in a dance among the cedar

where wind played
            the strings of dry grass
and curious wings stood huddled

under layers of green

The lady Blue transforms herself

to lie deeper in channels she cut
as she moves slowly to the stretch of night
and touch of stars
               too bright for summer

Here, where limestone broke the back of swell
and lies exposed to the eye
   drifts lay against her flanks
                     sculpted as they are
in long graceful curves
while above on ledges
                 cling roots of evergreen
    with lace topped heads bent
to pray as she passes quietly beneath the hands
  of this season

I pray too
  that the bits of glittered broken wings I find
will not be missed by some angel who shed them

struggling to stand upright against tempests
unseen by ourselves

                      you touched me

as I wrote on pages whiter than the frozen words
  of blemished lives spent in self defense

and I prayed for skin

        to slide under my hands that I might feel the warm
of your heart as it beat in caged ribs

  You,
Eve of winter
       caught slow eyed against the wind

I prayed
    would touch me
                     again

babygirlwlove
Senior Member

since 2004-10-10

Posts 1180
New York City

1 posted 2004-11-30 02:09 PM

:

h damn...as poetry turns prayer::
this is outstanding, chief...

::babyblu side-kick::

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2004-11-30 02:16 PM

"                     you touched me

as I wrote on pages whiter than the frozen words
  of blemished lives spent in self defense

and I prayed for skin

        to slide under my hands that I might feel the warm
of your heart as it beat in caged ribs

  You,
Eve of winter
       caught slow eyed against the wind

I prayed
    would touch me
                     again"

And you sir continue to give me shivers..
and not from the cold.
Thank you Ron, for the words you gift us with.

~ Let peace begin with me... ~

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2004-11-30 02:18 PM

You have me looking forward
to the time that the lady Blue swells
when the ice comes...

before the thaw...

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

4 posted 2004-11-30 02:20 PM

In the words of Karen...

*touching screen*

at first I was reminded how the lake made sounds when frozen...

then as I kept reading and...

I saw you there...waiting for a touch.

you make me smile with my eyes.

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

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

5 posted 2004-11-30 02:25 PM

Here, where limestone broke the back of swell
and lies exposed to the eye
   drifts lay against her flanks
                     sculpted as they are
in long graceful curves
while above on ledges
                 cling roots of evergreen
    with lace topped heads bent
to pray as she passes quietly beneath the hands
  of this season

I pray too
  that the bits of glittered broken wings I find
will not be missed by some angel who shed them

struggling to stand upright against tempests
unseen by ourselves

                      you touched me

as I wrote on pages whiter than the frozen words
  of blemished lives spent in self defense

and I prayed for skin

        to slide under my hands that I might feel the warm
======================

have mercy...............

( I just saw on the news you were getting snow...me thinks I'll hope for a blizzard so youre snowed in and write MANY more like this)

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

6 posted 2004-11-30 02:55 PM

yeah man, what they said!! way cool..in a hot way

Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

7 posted 2004-11-30 03:41 PM

I know I'm always sighing and wowing, but...

Sighhhh, WOW!

Outstanding Sir.

into my library you go

into this night i wonder, it's morning that i dread, another day of knowing of, the path i fear to tread.
~Sarah McLachlan~

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