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Sunshine
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0 posted 2006-07-16 05:08 PM



Fleeting Presents

Om, the tone lingers

moments brush past
taken in as a breath
deeply, carefully, some future
is about to be swallowed…

They tried to tell us
it would go this fast...
but we were young and foolish...
and blinked without believing...

Om, becomes ahh,

as a kaleidoscopic love
caresses a memory
sensed but a flash
ago...

an instant refracts
unfolding yesterday
in a heart’s beat

Ahh…finds its weight

in a heavy breath
escaping into yesterday
as you breathe in
tomorrow’s present
now.

I teeter upon the brink of
soon to know

fleeting presents


~*~

© Karilea Rilling Jungel
July 16, 2006

[Partially Inspired by
Dixie Alligood
and Julia Cameron]

© Copyright 2006 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
OwlSA
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1 posted 2006-07-16 05:22 PM


Fleeting gifts of the present become fleeting pasts and futures and more presents in an intricate Sunshine mind-meander with wonder-moments all along the way, ending in an upward-turned smile of excited anticipation of the future.  Thank you.

- Owl

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2 posted 2006-07-16 05:28 PM


wonderful read, thank you     

love these lines

**************
in a heavy breath
escaping into yesterday
as you breathe in
tomorrow’s present
now.

I teeter upon the brink of
soon to know
**************

~Sheli~


By words the mind is winged
~Aristophanes~

The Lady
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3 posted 2006-07-16 05:33 PM




Om yes, Karilea.

"They tried to tell us
it would go this fast...
but we were young and foolish...
and blinked without believing..."

And now we try to tell "them" and they don't believe us either... ahh...

You speak to my fleeting presents...


Martie
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4 posted 2006-07-16 06:09 PM


Sissie

Such a deep looker you are....sometimes thinking about time has made me crazy, when it is really so simple...it is right now!!


scorpio
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5 posted 2006-07-16 06:27 PM


Very insightful words Karilea.

believe in what your heart feels...

Joyce Johnson
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6 posted 2006-07-16 06:39 PM


Very poetic and wise.  Joyce
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7 posted 2006-07-16 09:43 PM


"They tried to tell us
it would go this fast...
but we were young and foolish...
and blinked without believing...

Om, becomes ahh,

as a kaleidoscopic love
caresses a memory
sensed but a flash
ago..."

Yes.."Om, becomes ahh"
How true..how expertly expressed Karilea.
Hugs & love...don't blink.

For it was not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart..
It was not my lips you kissed
But my soul.

XOx Uriah xOX
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8 posted 2006-07-17 09:03 AM


Om  ah   ahh   aha   Om    ::smiles::
:: bows ::

Marge Tindal
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9 posted 2006-07-17 09:44 AM


Karilea~
Mondayful~

I adore this~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
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10 posted 2006-07-17 10:03 AM


They tried to tell us
it would go this fast...
but we were young and foolish...
and blinked without believing...


well you know I'm keeping this one in my library

what a pleasure
to be a part
of such a treasure
straight from the heart!

Thank you Mama K


iliana
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11 posted 2006-07-17 10:54 PM


Yes, I didn't believe my Mother when she told me such things, but ah.......she was right.  Beautiful poem, SIL...... ....jo
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12 posted 2006-07-18 07:44 AM


This poem is so meaningful and it all fits together so nicely! -Potatobunny
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13 posted 2006-07-27 11:52 AM


I was drawn by the title...and stayed for the beauty of this. Presents...fleeting...I like that image in all dimensions.

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