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Good Morning God
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Good Morning God |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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GOOD MORNING GOD 4 January 2002 Good morning, God in this picture-book, pre-work moment. Look at that pair of yellow-billed kites playing in the thermals above the traffic with the grace and spirit you gave them. Is that the way they greet you at the start of every day? See the elegant curve of those palm branches reaching towards you in the blueness of beyond then bowing in submission. Your smiley-face sun is summer-warm and reflects in the faces of pedestrians sporting sunshine, sea and pasture colours and walking with the lightness of summer in their step. You see, God, I am on my way to the stables to see Flicka before work today as well as after - but you know that, don't you? - However, I know you'll forgive my irrepressible chatter. You see, you have painted such an uplifting day that I can't contain my exuberance about it. And in a few minutes I'll see Flicka - watching me from afar - - wondering if it's me - is it? isn't it? - then as I get nearer - that indescribable moment of recognition - in his stance - the carriage of his head - the pricking of his ears - and when I am close enough to see - the glow in his eyes. And then, our long hello that only he and I can understand - and you too God, I suppose. God, thank you for this sunflower morning. It is a luxurious cushion for my broken heart. - Owl |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Chatter? Owl? No way! Diana, you have it in perspective...yes, look around at all he has given us...so much to be thankful for...and yes, he knows each step we take before we have taken it... Even what the Loon is going to do... |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Magnus, for your very kind, warm-hearted reply. Yes, smiling fondly at the loon and reminiscing about exquisite poems that he/she inspires! - Owl |
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skyshine
since 2002-02-07
Posts 3058Beneath the northern stars |
What a beautiful morning! Wonderful work, Diana!  sky I hope someday you get the chance to live like you were dying.... |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you skyshine. This was when my darling horse, Flicka, was alive. I am sure that many people will be sick of hearing this, but I just need to tell you that he was 37½ when he went to Heaven, and I had been his for 20½ years and I had known him for 2 years before that, and he was the most loving and loved horse I have ever known for every minute of those 22½ years, and beyond. - Owl |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
this is perfection! I LOVE it! |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
I love the way you speak to God, Diana, and I'm sure he loves it too. This poem surpasses beauty. You know I have saved it. Hugs, Kate |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
smiling and loving your chatty tone and   for sharing the memory of Flicka GRIN, tomorrow, I will visit my daughter and the Lipizzaners and hug one for you and Flicka |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Dixie. I am glad you enjoyed it so much. Thank you Kate, you make me smile happily. Your responses are always so beautiful and heart-warming and such a delight to read. Kacy, I'm always very happy when people enjoy sharing my memories of Flicka with me. Thank you for my hug, but THANK YOU even more for Flicka's. He ADORED/ADORES hugs from everyone - the more he got/gets the happier he was/is. And oh, oh, oh about the Lippizaners! Please kiss them all on the nose and hug them from me and tell them Auntie Di loves them and Flicka sends you and them love from Heaven. I can see the Lippizaners in my mind's eye, and oh, what beauty. Thank you for sharing that with me. - Owl |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
lady, I LOVE your chattering! Oh, this is beautiful Dianna! |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Donna, thank you and smiles! I'm glad you do! I think you must have been replying to my poem while I was replying to yours (about the colour of deceit)! - Owl |
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FiercestCalm Junior Member
since 2006-06-24
Posts 31michigan |
this is beautiful! i think we should all talk to God like this-i think he/she must adore it. and i truly loved this part: "God, thank you for this sunflower morning. It is a luxurious cushion for my broken heart." that just says it all, really. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
I am deeply inhaling this beauty, I have read it before and read it again now, your way of expressing your gratitude for the divine gifts is really highly appealing. I think God smiles, because He knows you mirror His beauty by recognizing it. Beautiful the description of the meeting with your Flicka! I'll keep this too. Love, Margherita  |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Both God and Flicka are smiling down at this beautiful piece Diana. Wonderfully penned. Hugs~Nancy Don't bring me down now, let me stay here for awhile You know life's too short, let me bathe here in your smile. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Sometimes the things you write are just so gentle and good....I bask in your glow. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you FiercestCalm for your warm response. My good friend, Kate (The Lady), also said she liked the way I speak to God. I hadn't really thought that the way I speak to God was special until you both mentioned it. I see him as a father and a friend who really knows me. The last line was as a result of a long-haired Californian poet having broken my heart for the umpteenth time - and the excitement of seeing Flicka (in spite of the fact that I saw him at least once a day for 20½ years) and the beautiful day with the gifts of Nature and happy faces - all these things were so healing and inspired a wonderful glowing feeling inside me. Thank you Margherita for your beautiful response. I am in awe of it. I read it over again, as you did my poem. I'm so glad that you enjoyed my meeting with Flicka. You would have loved him. Everybody did. And he loved everybody. Oh, Nancy! Thank you! You make me smile back very warmly at you and God and Flicka. Thank you Ed, especially for knowing me (and having read enough of my poetry to know from it also) well enough to know that not all I write is gentle and good, and more especially for noting that this is. Flicka's (and God's) influence brings out the best in me and fills me with a very warm glow. I am glad that you are enjoying the basking. - Owl |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Dear Diana.... thank you for this. I didn't know where it was going and then...miraculously, I watched myself...on a long ago yesternoon that I might be with a horse in my hurry to love yet I was thrown because I did not comprehend life, nor style too eager, me, to be one. Diana, if anyone knows what I am saying it will be you. Let's talk.  |
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Cari07 Junior Member
since 2006-06-28
Posts 33Missouri, US of A |
"God, thank you for this sunflower morning. It is a luxurious cushion for my broken heart." Love it, love it LOVE IT! Especially the sunflower morning. Sometimes it takes a true heartache or tough experience to make us really appreciate all the little joys in life. I like the way you capture that in this piece. Actually I like everything about it. Hmm... |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Oh, Karilea, I do, I do, I do understand. It takes time to become one with a horse. First you have to let him/her get to know you, then you have to win his/her trust, then you have to get him/her to love you. Then you have to learn to know and handle or go with his/her fun (like bucking, and shying, and running away!)- and then you need to be thrown anyway (lots of times!), but land in the right way, and get up and ride again. At the riding school I went to as a child, everyone else was talking about the times they fell off, and I felt so out as I hadn't fallen off yet. Then, came THE moment! I was so excited, I couldn't wait for my father to get me home so I could tell my mother that I FELL OFF! Then I still had to wait another 6 falls before I really felt in. They say you can't ride well until you have fallen off 7 times. Of course, that doesn't make you a good rider, but nevertheless, I felt much better when I had achieved the 7th fall! There was a horse (his name was A Boy Named Sue) I rode as an adult, whom I could persuade to do things far better riders than I couldn't get him to do - simply because he trusted me and he knew I adored him. I remember him with much tenderness. YES, let's talk horses. I'll email you if you don't email me first. Thanks Cari. I am glad you enjoyed it so much. You are so right about the bad teaching us to appreciate the good. - Owl |
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