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rich · Messages: 602 Location: Longmont, CO

POWERFUL! Poetry lives elsewhere, too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ww4-d5FTvk

Scarlett651 · Messages: 2299 Location: the porch

Wow...gotta love a good poetry slam!!
Thanks, Rich!

We are not human beings making a spiritual journey...we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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"He lived happily ever after."
Willie Wonka

kathryn · Messages: 929 Location: little house on the prairie

Thank you so much for sharing this! LOVE LOVE LOVE!

"Do not stop thinking about life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you choose a challenge instead of a competence." ~Eleanor Roosevent

hecticeclectic · 23/01/2012 14:57:09 Subject: Re: Trying this again...

Hey there, Rich!

Love his poetry. I think we Steeps should get together and slam.

Love, Jo

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, "Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?" And you'll see how everything changes.
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE

Catherine · Messages: 227 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland.

Lovely Rich. Takes me back to the story 'we' wrote together. Time...
Cat x

Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it any more. It is an interesting question to ask yourself at night: what did I really see this day?
(taken from anam cara - John O'Donohue)

Catherine · Messages: 227 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland.

P.S.Though slightly different outcome in that one.

Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it any more. It is an interesting question to ask yourself at night: what did I really see this day?
(taken from anam cara - John O'Donohue)

rich · Messages: 602 Location: Longmont, CO

I, too, remember a cherished collaboration...

Catherine wrote:

she was an artist, painted landscapes for love and gave each one to him. but..no number of his wishes could bring him a place to hang her pictures and so he sent them back and she took up astronomy instead.

Rich responds:

She learned quickly. Then one night she took out her brushes and her bold strokes moved stars, planets, galaxies. Cold and lonely, he looked up at the sky and watched her signature appear in the lower right hand corner...in cadmium red.

mame · Messages: 1435 Location: Colorado (aka:Paradise)

I absolutely loved this collaboration...still do!

~~Mame
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"Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and
no one to thank" ~ Christina Rossetti

rich · Messages: 602 Location: Longmont, CO

Check THIS one I found while braving the archives tonight (more on that later). This was our friend Kathryn:"Stars Enough"

Posted by kathryn on February 07, 2005 at 12:16:32:

The following is something I wrote LONG ago (as in decades....) but popped to mind after reading "Q's" WONDERFUL poem "Contentment". I had to hunt, but found it and though it speaks FAR less eloquently than Q's, I so remember the starry moment behind this moment......

Let's pretend that we are twelve
and this is our
first kiss.
Like a twenties movie
of poorly spliced film,
we'll start and stop
in awkward flashes.
With hands in pockets
we'll lean and
peek from under
squinty eyelids.
Our noses will bump.
I'll giggle,
your ears will burn red.
I'll adjust my sandal strap
and you, your watch band,
but then we'll check
each other's eyes
in expectation
and sweet desire
and draw near again
with bodies closer this time.
Hand in hand, this time,
our lips will briefly brush;
dry, unparted.
We'll blush
from new, unbidden stirrings
and squeeze each other's hand.
And just for tonight, love,
this will be
stars enough

kathryn · Messages: 929 Location: little house on the prairie

awwwwww......thanks Rich, for remembering this very old oldie :~)
and yes...you were VERY brave to venture into the tangled archives!

"Do not stop thinking about life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you choose a challenge instead of a competence." ~Eleanor Roosevent

rich · Messages: 602 Location: Longmont, CO

(The origin of "One of Us")

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Posted by rich on March 14, 2005 at 13:29:59:

Posted by Brian, May 25, 2000
It Attracts such Beauty.

The funny thing to me is that, over time, this
has been as varied as the people who stop in &
leave a bit of themselves. There are times it has
been heart-wrenchingly gorgeous & sad & funny &
pedantic & gentle.

I would say that you attract beauty, Paul
as Cecily attracts courage & Stacey attracts
moments & Allie attracts poetry & Catherine
attracts eternity & Rich attracts generosity.

& we are all of that, larger because of each other...

I'm glad I could be a part of that...

So, here's a story, hot off a napkin

for you all:

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Some day, the light will shine like a sun
through my skin & they will say, What have
you done with your life?

& though there are many moments I think I will
remember, in the end, I will be proud to say,
I was one of us.

kathryn · Messages: 929 Location: little house on the prairie

I remember this -- I think it was written just before or just after I found Story People and when I read it, I knew that I wanted to be one of us too......

"Do not stop thinking about life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you choose a challenge instead of a competence." ~Eleanor Roosevent

Scarlett651 · Messages: 2299 Location: the porch

(deep sigh)
I do so love homecoming...
xoxox

We are not human beings making a spiritual journey...we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
*******
"He lived happily ever after."
Willie Wonka

hecticeclectic · 31/01/2012 15:40:13 Subject: Re: Trying this again...

I cannot think of any words...just sitting here at my keyboard grateful to be a part of the "us".

Love, Jo

Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, "Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?" And you'll see how everything changes.
And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, THE LITTLE PRINCE

anntinasia · 01/02/2012 11:40:40 Subject: Re: Trying this again...

Yep, me, too...

How is the evil twin doing, Rich?

Love,
Tina~
Oh, take me home, heart strewn roads...to the place whee my spirit blooms...

Anntinasia

"Sometimes life calls for an unexpected hat!"

"Everything you can imagine is real."
~Pablo Picasso~