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ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2005-04-14 08:26 AM

"Come out to view
the truth of flowers blooming
in poverty."

-Matsuo Basho,
1644-1694
******************

Sick with need of truth
But my garden calls to me
Singing songs of bloom

In clay-soil poverty
Panzies and Hellebores

choshi
Senior Member

since 2004-01-01

Posts 1184
New York

1 posted 2005-04-14 08:32 AM

Lovely allusive variation in ~Basho

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

2 posted 2005-04-14 09:07 AM

Excellent Ford..you accomplished this perfectly.
Hugs~N.

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2005-04-14 09:23 AM

Beauty
eyes the beholder
and loves
the gardener...

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

4 posted 2005-04-14 09:46 AM

the will to survive
weed seeds prove the soiled truth
tenacity blooms

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

5 posted 2005-04-14 10:21 AM

~very nice~ hugs, Chris

"The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze."
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

6 posted 2005-04-14 12:45 PM

in the garden
all truths are spoken

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

7 posted 2005-04-14 12:51 PM

nicely done Ford. *s*

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

8 posted 2005-04-14 01:35 PM

Sick on a journey—
my spirit wanders
over withered fields

Basho

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

9 posted 2005-04-14 01:37 PM

enjoyed

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

10 posted 2005-04-30 07:02 AM

Good-Morning Ford,
Beautiful read on an early wet mornin'.

:-)

<^^> Today the pond....Tomorrow the world

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

11 posted 2005-04-30 08:46 PM

thanks to froggy for re-blooming this one!

EvocativeVerse2
Senior Member

since 2003-09-10

Posts 1279

12 posted 2005-05-01 01:05 AM

Hey ice man. Had to stop in for a peep at this tonight. Loved it my friend. Been such a long time since we got to chat. One of these weekends I am just going to have to sneak over to PTOChat. Hope to see you there old friend.

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