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among grasses so tall this morning |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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Spreading lawns green grazing lands promise keeping aristocratic cool afternoons quite besetting a morning plunge into life’s passion the tall, tall grasses of mysterious harmony waving to old ambitions that seemed worthwhile taking new fashion not chic merely, sewing wiser fires with golden threads from the fractures of deceit and a thousand deaths making life delightfully, easy on the ear intimate high causes invigorating reality and in a small town…somewhere lives a vast sea of tenderness, for the sacrifices searching beneath the shirt of many dreams for life a tonic moon of maps & loves week end visits springing higher motives surrendering great nobility songs, tremendously brave within cool grey-green seas of rain hours of destinations laughing as they play oh, how absurd, my dearest meal on sunday and that first step into some envisioned, mirrored monday afresh like a longing for some element of self well loved faces made by hands of time looking below the surface earths strong aroma of mind bubbling, whenever the occasion calls a crown of thorns and a bronze cross in ordinary corduroys whispering to every night and morning… “how do you do?” and i fear not, the five minutes more that might be left…my imagination becomes a flash of comets in nature’s future this pen and me intimately flames of life allowing the hour flying through the air where passion lives like the hawthorn tree faith is an acquaintance like a marriage in high spirits of tall shrubbery companions of mixed origin on an absent road thought to be design like a colony of simple voices that no art could ever fathom or describe a remarkable creed to mankind… which follows no culture nor conditioning simply coloring hues of young people's minds and what is… manifesting great emotional effervescence preparing arm chairs of afternoons within a sea of grasses endless maze of golden voices, swaying song for you, you know who you are....  |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
sewing wiser fires with golden threads ~*~ Such beauty among the whispers ... I know I have a photo that would fit this... I just have to find it! A beautiful write, LeeJ... a  . |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
A lovely image popped into my mind while reading this--a woman, tall, lithe, and barefoot, wearing white eyelet, gathering wildflowers... ooooh. Do another one!  beautiful m'friend |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Tell me something Lee ... do you write with a pen or a mink paintbrush? What a lovely picture you have left imprinted in my mind today. Thankyou for this. hugs, Chris |
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HopeS Member Elite
since 2000-12-22
Posts 4596Perth Western Australia |
" my imagination becomes a flash of comets in nature’s future this pen and me intimately flames of life.... Lee your poems are so full of life Hope |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
LeeJ "earths strong aroma of mind bubbling, whenever the occasion calls" That is how you are...your words just bubble up from a stream with no end. I really envy your writing and I'd like to borrow your muse please.  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Lee, the title is a beeyooootiful poem, all on its own. I keep re-reading and remembering it, for the sheer pleasure of it. I love the poem too and meandered with it through the streets and minds and hearts of a small town full of ubuntu (a Zulu word pronounced ooboontoo meaning a lot more than a sort of symbiosis and love and goodwill towards individuals and the community). Grey-green is one of my favourite colours and comes into a lot of my poems, so I basked in it when I found it in yours. Did you perhaps mean “thought to be designed” (instead of “design”)? However, I can see that it could be “design”. Oh, and my most favourite part is every single syllable from the first to the last. As Karen says, please write another like this. Of all of your poems that I have read so far, I think this is my favourite. - Owl |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
“tall grasses of mysterious harmony waving to old ambitions that seemed worthwhile taking new fashion not chic merely, sewing wiser fires with golden threads from the fractures of deceit and a thousand deaths making life delightfully, easy on the ear intimate high causes invigorating reality and in a small town…somewhere lives a vast sea of tenderness, for the sacrifices searching beneath the shirt of many dreams for life” Wow-wee! This is a remarkable write Lee J. Had me drifting above, admiring your tall grasses. Enjoyed JL  |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
So mellow and melodious... Lee, this is truly one of my favourite poems of yours that I have had the pleasure of reading ~ and believe me, that is saying a mouthful! Whether it was your intention or not, I found myself thinking of the diversity of poets and the wonderful writing that we are blessed with each and every day here at pipTalk. ~ and you, m'dear are one of them! Your poem is rife with profound, appreciative, and highly memorable lines. You truly are a poet in every sense of the word. Hugs with love, Linda |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
Now that's a POEM! "whenever the occasion calls a crown of thorns and a bronze cross in ordinary corduroys whispering to every night and morning… “how do you do?”" |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
WoW, LeeJ! You're amazing. |
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Dominique-Simone Senior Member
since 2005-11-12
Posts 643 |
You know how titles sometimes do not have anything to do with the poem well you have honored your title well, or maybe the other way around. You have a reamarkable talent that I am glad you have shared with us. |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
Wow! indeed a beautiful read. Enjoyed it much so. :-) |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
LeeJ - I guess you know that it's hard for me to highlight any particular part of your poems because it all just flows into one great masterpiece of thought that traverses the country side, the inner side, the outer side, and the way out there and down there sides. I ditto Jo - You are amazing! Helen |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
So beautiful indeed! Both this piece and you. Hugs~Nancy In the midst of winter, |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
yippeee another treasure for my library ohhhh, this is absolutely beautiful LeeJ! and I cannot even highlight anything cuz I'd be forced to highlight the whole write |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Well, you certainly have gotten the attention of many here within passions... Wow, what a trek.... |
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