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I am Moved
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I am Moved |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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I am Moved… Shadows come from different edges, my south is no longer to my left if I look this way, so I turn into a new light, and look that way. I rambled my feet to a stream, to just listen to rocks playing with water, but the winds blew too cold, chilling my thoughts away from despair, crisping new steps. I am moved. Boxes hold my life, yellowing papers outlining failures, and successes, those failures tangling my fingertips like flypaper, though no shaking of truths will allow me to throw away the fact that an error here, or there, will ever leave me, as the small successes pile neatly into a corner. I am moved. I keep the unopened apple butter jarred by her hands in ’92, her rambled writing of identity scrawled across the lid’s pasted label, hear the joshing of choice, “you brought that, too?” and only nod, befitting as it is that some connection accompany me within new walls that quietly ask to behold the art of some life that smiles… but I do not open it – for it joins this small rock in my pocket, this smoothed stone of you, a talisman they are, as I am moved… Over there, where the bench has found a new way to please, under the white pear tree where robins pull on fat worms, chimes now hang to sound the morning…and over there, an old cottonwood stump crumbles, but will feed new old roses, a water dish will serve to nurture and cleanse varied wings of song… and I will surround myself with old, as we together touch the new, and these memories will show a way that I am moved… |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Thia is absolutely lovely Kari... i have missed you. mxx "we all have wings, but some of us don't know why" |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
This is lovely Karilea.. It does sound as though you are all moved and settling in. ~Hugs & luv, Nancy~ ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
I've really missed you, too! Sunshine, Your poetry is so easy to identify with-- especially the unopened jar. I'm so sentimental that I saved a cookie, believe it or not, for about a decade. It had been one we made together--just couldn't give up that one last tangible piece I had! Just like this poem--just can't give it up. You know where it's going... I'm glad to hear of the nice transition you are making. miscellanea |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
dabnabbit, if I forgot to catalog this! Not this time! |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
I will surround myself with old, as we together touch the new, and these memories will show a way that I am moved… In this mixture of old and new, you bring balance and you move with grace and with an open heart and clarity ... Beautiful! Love, Margherita  |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
A very "moving" piece Karilea.  Have missed your beautiful words. hugs, Chris Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Yes, sissie...you are moved...and I am moved from reading this beauty. I want to walk the yard of your new and go in and out of doors with you...one day I will!  |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very well expressed, Karilea! A perfect blending of the old and new! Sounds like contentment to me! Enjoy your new place! |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
sounds like the move went well and you are enjoying the new house good write |
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Suetang Member Ascendant
since 2001-03-07
Posts 5187Melbourne, Australia |
Karilea This was such a wonderful write and I could see everything unfolding before my eyes. I hope you are well. Take care.......Sue I am in motion |
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SmartChick Member Rara Avis
since 2001-09-23
Posts 7081On A Journey To The Unknown |
A lovely poem, as usual, Karilea. Good to see you. |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
 missed you,your words, and your SUNSHINE! |
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kayjay Member Elite
since 2002-06-24
Posts 2015Oregon |
Sigh...another instance of by the time I get to sign your work, all the good words of praise are taken. Please accept my thoughts on the success of your hard work and joy for your new home. Ken Through rubble and trouble and dark of night |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Karilea, It sounds as though you are experiencing great change in your life. This is an exquisitely written poem. Please submit it somewhere for publication? Hope all is well. Corinne |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Thank you all for being "moved" with me. Probably my last move to a "new" home...and if it is not, then I'd better have enough bucks to have someone else do it for me, because it dang near wore me out. THAT, or one HUGE estate sale! But the house? charms me...and I am at home more so now than in several decades. Come, visit. See me smile with lots of hugs! |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
OH goodie!! you are all moved in and now the house will move you....cant wait to see the poetry that will be whispered from the walls and quiet corners and shadows of the house. Say hello to Kat and all the new muses for me. Happy Housewarming!! |
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