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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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For awhile Though it’s cold outside There is a field of alfalfa Below the upper floor Of an old red barn Through an open door Sunlight Is pouring in As if to see A woman Two kittens With wide blue eyes Discovering the world And being In love |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
This is beautiful. Since you've been so patient with me, I thought I'd ask about your choice of title. (I learn the most interesting things by just asking...)  |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
amazingly profound...didn't want it to end |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
John~ Your title drew me into the depths of this piece~ I simply was reminded of an old Ben Franklin tale about the whistle that cost too much~ Don't know the story flashed me, but it did~ Thanks for sharing~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ Copied from Stories About Ben Franklin - This morning I am going to tell you a story about a little boy and a whistle. The little boy in the story is named Ben. His full name was Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin later grew up to be one of the wisest men our world has ever known, but in our story today, he was a little boy who did something very foolish. When Ben was seven years old some of his friends gave him some money. It was quite a bit of money for a small boy. As Ben told it, "They filled my pockets with coppers". That is what they used to call pennies. With his pockets full of money, Ben headed straight for a store where they sold toys. On the way to the store, he met a boy who had a whistle. Perhaps it was a whistle like this one that I have with me this morning. When Ben heard the whistle, he liked the sound of it so much that he told the boy he would give him all of the money he had in his pockets if he would give him the whistle. The boy gave Ben the whistle and took the money. Ben headed for home and when he got there, he went all around the house playing his whistle. His brothers, sisters, and cousins asked Ben where he got the whistle and he told them that he had bought it with the money he had been given. They all started to laugh at Ben and make fun of him. They told him that he had paid four times as much as the whistle was worth. Ben was so hurt and felt so foolish that he began to cry, but he learned a lesson that day that he would remember for the rest of his life. From then on, whenever he saw someone who had made a foolish choice in life, he would say, "That man paid too much for his whistle." ~*No matter what I search for ... |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Thank you Margie!  I can much better appreciate the poem now. And thanks to you too, John. This is a message I needed to hear at this particular time. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Wonderful write here John.. and thank you also to Marge. Hugs~Nancy |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
A keeper this is John. Thankyou. And thankyou Marge for the story. hugs, Chris Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
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aujussy wolf
since 2003-08-09
Posts 1215Michigan |
I really liked this one greatness, short and sweet and the "That man paid too much for his whistle" story was too cool ~wolfman |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
John I appreciate the way you write....and I'd like to learn how to say so much with fewer words. ! |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
SB, Decades ago, I purchased “The Chieftains 3” on LP, (it’s been reissued on CD now). On it are two airs: Eibhli Gheal Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill and An Ghaoth Aneas. They’ve always associated, to me, with a particular era in my life. If I write something, and when then reading it find myself humming one or both of those melodies, I know I’ve succeeded in, for me at least, evoking the mood of that time. Thanks everyone for reading. John |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Hey John not only did I love this but also your story in your response. Recreaction can be so comforting..for me it's smell..."too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Drauntz Member Elite
since 2007-03-16
Posts 2905Los Angeles California |
oh!!!!!! |
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