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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2004-11-05 10:02 AM

A Bed to Tend

So, tell me how it is for you
When it comes to tending beds,
Where soft dampness
Of dew lines succumb
To the palm of your hand

And careful planning of seed
Is not figured in a hurry,
As pale thoughts take on color,
Though your hands are eager to touch
Their soon to be nesting place

As you hear sounds of want
With earth ears and shivering limbs

And an anxiety to see all come to
Fruition, as spade enters earth’s womb
Again, and again, tucking into its seams
First a bulb, then your hand,
Covering brown over white, or tan, or even
Pink tinged oval rounds,

And the earth moves under you,
Soft round mounds covered
With your hands, before the frost lines
Lower into its depths, for now,
It is alive, still warm,
Supple enough to greet with welcome
Who you are, and what you bring

Like the lover of nature that you are.

Time is too soon spent as limbs ache
With the habits of yesterday, aged,
A fine shine along your features as you stand
Surveying your efforts,
For you have tended the bed

Well enough, then layered a blanket
To tuck in the warm, to edge away for moments
Any frost, until the winds hold their own
And blow away time.

kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

1 posted 2004-11-05 10:23 AM

The weaving of spell
You handle so well.

Lovely story of planting in beds of different types. KJ

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

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

2 posted 2004-11-05 10:29 AM

This has as many layers as the earth itself... and each one is delightful. *S*

I'm in a world of gray, missing color... you make me believe it will be mine again. *S*

Martie

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California

3 posted 2004-11-05 10:39 AM

Karilea

You have tended this bed of words with utmost care, leaving me with a sigh.

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-11-05 11:07 AM

"Well enough, then layered a blanket
To tuck in the warm, to edge away for moments
Any frost, until the winds hold their own
And blow away time."

Yes...so many layers here..
Extremely well written Karilea.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

5 posted 2004-11-05 02:13 PM

so much enjoyed today, this

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

6 posted 2004-11-05 04:21 PM

Very intriguing write, but then again all of your writings are.
Enjoyed this very much.

JL

James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

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7 posted 2004-11-05 05:53 PM

It is so....just so. You capture this so well, an aspect of love that wouldn't seem like grist for a poem, but in your hands it is so natural that I can't imagine it not becoming a poem!

You're beautiful, you know...in every way that counts, and some that don't.

~~J

BloomingRose
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since 2000-08-09

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Florida

8 posted 2004-11-05 06:07 PM

The effort of tending is usually worth it!
You plant the thought very well!

Deb

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

9 posted 2004-11-05 09:55 PM

So much faith has she,
To bury rounds before frost,
The world in turmoil...

Cannons flash the horizon,
But they cannot dull her dreams.

--------ice/ford
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Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

10 posted 2004-11-05 10:00 PM

Picking my jaw up of the floor, whoa Karilea, wow.

it's a

smiling

Mxx

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

myheart
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since 2004-11-05

Posts 160
lost in your eyes

11 posted 2004-11-05 11:02 PM

Your writing is so wonderful. Really enjoyed this.

cusick
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since 2003-07-27

Posts 668

12 posted 2004-11-06 05:04 AM

Some laugh at people who talk to plants but like us they have a family to tend,leaves, they make a home for birds, I could go on and on this brought about by your lovely poem. Maggie

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

13 posted 2004-11-06 08:35 AM

ms sun..though not a worshiper of the planting hand..yours was lovely here

may the warm rain soak this furrow

enjoyed it

Aenimal
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since 2002-11-18

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the ass-end of space

14 posted 2004-11-06 02:23 PM

Simply put, beautiful. I think one of your best or at least, one of my favourites

Kethry
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since 2000-07-29

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Victoria Australia

15 posted 2004-11-06 04:00 PM

Now there's a bed worth tending and written with such loving words you can be sure spring will come again.

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

16 posted 2004-11-06 04:37 PM

Karilea~

'Time is too soon spent as limbs ache
With the habits of yesterday, aged'

Ahhhhh ... the softness of truth~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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EvocativeVerse2
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since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

17 posted 2004-11-07 08:24 AM

Hi Sunshine. Love this. Yesterday was the last hurrah for sush planting here I think. I was outside for 4 hours and this is what I was doing. I understand well the moment you have captured. Bravo dear friend.

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