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Barbed Veneration
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Barbed Veneration |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
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Barbed Veneration Who would know that in spring before leaf flourished into full shade a symbiosis of love would come to be amid the thorn, leaf, tree… and thee?  What way might lie parallel to a crystal springs road, doth travel yet another lane that easterly veers onto property of friends whose lives are as sharp as we would want them to be and they, who find surprises to guide us into some reverie… no need to impale, still, they prevail in showing us these anomalies of nature  that will always assail the senses… Do you see the pterodactyl’s face, the eye, sharp chin and beak; yet the tree lives, in some western dusk’s light a glitch of life embraced into itself, again. What broke it to part? Only to grow back as one? Did some spiked cross of thorn give credence to some wind of lies? Could some shadow grow until the sun grew bright? Bright enough to cast doubt away... What route did the root of love rise to raise a spirit of hope to shine… this honeyed locust… did you ever see such a tree be? Or spawn such thoughts to see? Can you doubt then all that could be? In some wayward growing of the beings, we? " It matters not this distance now " Excerpt, Yesterday's Love ~*~ KRJ |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
A beautifully complex write, Karilea. You're right, that is a pteradactyl tree! |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
Do you see the pterodactyl’s face, the eye, sharp chin and beak; yet the tree lives, in some western dusk’s light a glitch of life embraced into itself, again. love that picture..I have a corkscew willow tree that I got free a few years back from a gardening show as a prize. It is about 30 feet high now and while it was small I was able to twist the branches around each other and as it grew it has taken on strange shapes in places. Great poem!  M |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Sissie....such thought a tree can bring and many lessons learned from looking with mind and spirit. Loved this complex you! |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Thank you for this.....I miss honey locust trees....for those endless seed pods that I wish I had even one of, so I could plant one in my California yard....but even more for those incredible thorns. I used to wonder how any mere plant could make something so needle sharp, and sooooo goshdarn hard! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Edward Grim Senior Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 1154Greenville, South Carolina |
Very nice. I really miss reading your poetry. And the pictures are wonderful as well. Thanks for bringing a little Sunshine to my day, lol. I'm not smart, I'm just a tricky dumb person. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
It most definitely does look as you say, no question of that...Amazing what our eyes and mind can make of something so earthly simple. |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
nice read  |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I for one never doubt what can be seen in nature, if only we take the time to see. Good thing you do this for all. Tori says she sees a big dinosaur in the branches! I saw a raven - go figure! Food for thought poetess, good food! What a tree! |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
wow! I'm just in awe! Wonderfully done! |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
Karilea, wonderful writing and presentation.....and of course, it's a keeper  I honestly don't know how you keep on doing it - your writing always inspires and humbles me.....I learn so much from your wisdom and style. Melissa~ Intellectually I know that Canada is no better than any other country. Emotionally I KNOW that Canada is the best country in the world! |
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poettothecars Senior Member
since 2006-02-10
Posts 1093New Zealand |
5432 Words and Thorns 28 May 2006 An empty shadow this shaded thorn A rose to prick protection an anomaly Such passion, solemn pain an open book, pages crinkled Torn away at flesh blood droplets fallen Under the blossom the highlight of a bud New birth, growth of yesterday maybe another sunlight to reflect For what was a minute time accounted for lost Ode to that liaison the days words and thorns met © 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet) a poet who cares |
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StevenS Senior Member
since 2005-09-21
Posts 945L. A. (Lower Alabama) |
Enjoyed Sunshine. :-) |
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SmartChick Member Rara Avis
since 2001-09-23
Posts 7081On A Journey To The Unknown |
This is absolutely beautiful, Karilea. |
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skyshine
since 2002-02-07
Posts 3058Beneath the northern stars |
Such thoughts in a tree....well done!  ~sky I hope someday you get the chance to live like you were dying.... |
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