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Midnitesun
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0 posted 2006-11-10 03:23 PM



I gazed out the wet window pane
at relentless rain beating
upon a weak opening.

Yesterday, the very sound of it
might have stirred deep feelings
of regret, of love's loss and pain.

But today it offers refreshment,
the way it does a thirsty desert.
Today is a Saint-Exupery Day!

For I can hear him say over the thunder:

"What makes the desert beautiful,
is that somewhere, it hides a well."




© Copyright 2006 Kathleen Kacy Stafford - All Rights Reserved
The Lady
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1 posted 2006-11-10 03:38 PM




oh Kacy!

it's beautiful
and the rose
loves the rain

this poem is a gift
for me
thank you

themute
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2 posted 2006-11-10 03:38 PM


Your use of personified emotional metaphore is most wonderful, I like, yes! This desert is one that would have many foot prints, if the wind didn't whipe them away.

I am the two-toed wanderer

Midnitesun
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3 posted 2006-11-10 03:46 PM


you are most welcome, m'Lady of the desert
and mute thanks, sweetie

Pilgrimage
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4 posted 2006-11-10 04:15 PM


Excellent.  We need more days where we seek the well instead of regret the sand.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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5 posted 2006-11-10 04:22 PM


I love it

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.

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6 posted 2006-11-10 11:32 PM


Kacy’s ‘poetic well’ truly runs deep, fine,
and clear!.....

I cannot  in any way ‘improve’ on the
comments already made by several
fine poets (on this lovely website)
about Kacy’s poem (especially the
comment from “Pilgrimage”
...any more than I could EVER
write a better poem than this!
[....tis a far, far better ‘voice’ heard
here “over the thunder”...than the
one that ‘spoke’ to me in ‘Time’s
attic’...in my “Litanies in Time” write!]

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