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scottn
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 |  Subject: More Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:21 am | |
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(Time with my son)
By Scott Newport
I don’t know if I enjoy
Seeing where I’m going
Or being there
Where I’m headed
The long view
And the expectation
Of time walking
A truth I love
The silent talks
Whispering tree tops
Curling arms at the base of that
Oak tree we always take
A rest, close our eyes
The wind slight
Sun sorta bright
Falling through the branches
Touching the leaves
Like a hand on the back
“Snow’s ‘bout to come”
Creek bottoms quiet today
And light on brush
“Let’s try over there”
More days like that
May come- may not
But the memory is more
More of why I love spending
Time with you |
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oneagleswings
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| | Subject: Re: More Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:41 am | |
| "More"...indeed!
Keep em' comin'.
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Lora
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| | Subject: Re: More Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:00 pm | |
| I love the sleepy, sorrowful feeling this one produces and I totally like how you used nature to do it. Beautiful!
The silent talks
Whispering tree tops
Curling arms at the base of that
Oak tree we always take
A rest, close our eyes
The wind slight
Sun sorta bright
Falling through the branches
Touching the leaves
Like a hand on the back
“Snow’s ‘bout to come”
Creek bottoms quiet today
And light on brush
“Let’s try over there” |
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scottn
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| | Subject: Re: More Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:25 am | |
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Hey Laura, this nature thing is in me I guess. Yesterday on the way to a job I passed a row of vintage, oak trees standing by the side of the road. Just a bit of gravel between us. Strong, leafless branches were all raised to the heavens as though to ask God why. They seemed to be reaching, as though pleading. They must have had a lot of questions because she seemed to have enough arms to fill a small chapel in the woods. She must have been close to 70, so she's been around a while. She even may have giggled as I went by with that look of curiosity on my face. I’m sure she has seen my kind before. “Hey guys, there goes another nut.”
Kinda crazy eh? I have always enjoyed nature and the spiritual aspect of it.
Scott
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oneagleswings
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| | Subject: Re: More Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:01 am | |
| Love your kind of "crazy."
Many unbelievers thought John The Baptist to be a raving lunatic! |
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Lora
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| | Subject: Re: More Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:10 am | |
| I guess we could say you write pastoral poetry with a contemporary twist. |
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Thena
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| | Subject: Re: More Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:38 pm | |
| Keep 'em coming! We will keep enjoying! |
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scottn
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| | Subject: Re: More Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:01 am | |
| Thought I better write a thing about the trees I spoke of in the earlier post.
In Season
By Scott Newport
Leafless trees stand
Forest of thinkers
Arms reached out
Always asking
Heaven answers
Down on their
Majesty, growing-
Roots bolted firm
Shadows extend
Upon dormant life
At dusk
Deep crevices glowing red
At Dawn revive
Hanging dew reflections
After a spring
Frost, buds
‘bout to burst
Myself, just an
Observer at sunrise-
Still, on gravel
Wondering river of thought
If I’ll ever
Have the
Strength of that
Oak tree in season
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Lora
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| | Subject: Re: More Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:24 pm | |
| Wow, amazing work! You should post this as a new post too. Some people may not realize that you posted another great poem. I'd hate to see anyone miss out on this one! |
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