reverberations - pipTalk Forums

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2006-01-19 05:14 PM

Hearing some raucous feathered friends
vocalizing in nearby fields and trees today
was refreshing, invigorating, a renewal of sorts.
Though my ravenous rowdy Alaskan ravens
are no longer within earshot,
I think of them,
with their brilliant beady eyes,
their noisey beaks breaking the silence
of a soft snowdrifting morning
in the Interior.
Suddenly, I have a horrendous heartache,
missing my nightly midnight strolls
in winter’s white willowed woods,
and my mid-day ambles
alongside the moose trails,
wrapped in the low angled sunlight
that rarely peeks high enough above the horizon
to really warm the land, not even at high noon.
But if I listen to my own heartbeat
perhaps, I can hear all those sounds
reverberating within the frail walls
that encompass my humanity.

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

1 posted 2006-01-19 05:25 PM

beautiful poem...great ending...such a pleasant read...

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2006-01-19 05:28 PM

Kacy

"But if I listen to my own heartbeat
perhaps, I can hear all those sounds
reverberating within the frail walls
that encompass my humanity."

I'm sure you could!

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

3 posted 2006-01-19 05:32 PM

Steaven and Martie, thank you, for 'hearing' this one.

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2006-01-19 05:55 PM

Kacy~
The sounds of memory ... stirred to pen the longing~

I'll just bet my bottom dollar you can !!
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email - [email protected]

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

5 posted 2006-01-19 05:57 PM

Marge, thanks
and it ain't even Memorex

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

6 posted 2006-01-20 09:05 AM

This is beautiful and am sorry you miss them, well, not sorry you miss them , rather sorry they are not BY you.

Reminded me of blackbird . . .

"Take these broken wings and learn to fly . . . all your life . . . you were only waiting for this moment to be free . . ."

~ Lennon/McCartney

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

7 posted 2006-01-20 12:28 PM

I love this, but those last 4 lines I reallllly love!

Midnitesun, do you really live in Alaska?  Or is it just that Alaskan ravens visit where you are?

From what I have heard, Alaska is beeyooooootiful.

Talking about whales (or rather thinking about them), right now on South African TV there is a whale swimming up the Thames through London - apparently a first in the known 2000 year history!

- Owl

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

8 posted 2006-01-20 01:47 PM

and Diana just made me think of Cash, ironically, makes me think of you Kacy:

"I've been ev-e-ry-whereee, mannn . . .
I've been ev-e-ry-where . . ."

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.