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26taurus
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posted November 21, 2007 03:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
or just a line or two
from one, which would it be?

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juniperb
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posted November 21, 2007 04:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message
The earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

- George Eliot

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26taurus
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posted November 21, 2007 04:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message

Yep, that about sums you up!

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posted November 21, 2007 05:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message
What would your pleasure be

Ms 26T ?

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

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26taurus
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posted November 21, 2007 10:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
Mrs juniperB,

I'm really not sure.

What do you See?

(been reading some poems trying to pick one )

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26taurus
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posted November 21, 2007 10:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
or,

If _________ were a poem
or just a line or two from one,
it/she/he would have be:

fill in the blank
and continue.

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NosiS
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posted November 22, 2007 12:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message
When dusting the matter
The issues spring forth.
The tissues are lorn
By the fissures there born.
Receipt the precept
As there is no such thing,
For matter is fatter
From a fine strand of string.
And if there such thing be,
Then forgive you not me
For the instance brings distance
That could really not be.
There is no such rope
Save with flat, listless mopes
And this scattering flatter
Gives no proof to such hope.

Yeah, that about sums it up.

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26taurus
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posted November 22, 2007 12:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message

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posted November 22, 2007 01:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
Very clever!

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26taurus
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posted November 22, 2007 01:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand
and stamp on the world's head with my foot.

~Attar

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posted November 22, 2007 01:24 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
TO LUNA
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


SISTER of the earliest light,
Type of loveliness in sorrow,
Silver mists thy radiance borrow,
Even as they cross thy sight.
When thou comest to the sky,
In their dusky hollows waken,
Spirits that are sad, forsaken,
Birds that shun the day, and I.

Looking downward far and wide,
Hidden things thou dost discover.
Luna! help a hapless lover,
Lift him kindly to thy side!
Aided by thy friendly beams,
Let him through the lattice peeping,
Look into the room where, sleeping,
Lies the maiden of his dreams.

Ah, I see her! Now I gaze,
Bending in a trance Elysian,
And I strain my inmost vision,
And I gather all thy rays.
Bright and brighter yet I see
Charms no envious robes encumber;
And she draws me to her slumber
As Endymion once drew thee.

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posted November 22, 2007 01:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message
quote:
I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand
and stamp on the world's head with my foot.
~Attar


You are so cool.

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26taurus
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posted November 22, 2007 01:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
ooo! That poem is luminescent.

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26taurus
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posted November 22, 2007 02:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
(the Truth)

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O bird of my heart,
Fly on, fly on.
Look not behind.
Whatever the world gives
Is meaningless, useless
And utterly false.

Sri Chinmoy

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NosiS
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posted November 22, 2007 12:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message
26taurus,

I hope my poem didn't seem too bleak or dispirited. I noticed your blue heart and reread my poem to notice that it could actually take on a disheartening tone if read in a different perspective than the one I wrote it in. That was really cool to notice that, though. Thanks for your presence, once again!

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posted November 22, 2007 10:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message

If my Mother were a poem
or just a line or two or three from one,
she would have to be:


The Solitary Reaper

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!


William Wordsworth

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

- George Eliot

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26taurus
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posted November 23, 2007 07:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message

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posted November 23, 2007 07:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
Thanks NosiS. Yes, I read it in "lowlight" the first time. Then read it again, in a higher light hence second comment.

You shine!

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posted November 27, 2007 09:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for teaselbaby     Edit/Delete Message
I don't really know.. the first poem that sprang to mind was The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry. The last three lines would fit, at least on good days.

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~ Wendell Berry

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26taurus
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posted November 27, 2007 09:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message

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posted November 27, 2007 08:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes

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26taurus
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posted November 30, 2007 01:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message
To A Butterfly

STAY near me--do not take thy flight!
A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart,
My father's family!

- William Wordsworth

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posted November 30, 2007 09:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for NosiS     Edit/Delete Message
Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly
in my bed.
Once I heard and answered all the questions
of the crickets,
And joined the crying of each falling dying
flake of snow,
Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . .
How did it go?
How did it go?

-Shel Silverstein

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