ThreeHeadedClover
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SPRINGWELL LANDMARK.



Deserted valleys of purple and gold
…In a different light
Stone mountains against the sky
The rest of the world
…Silver in the light
Kane River flames blown to the sea
…Turned in the tide

A violent beating earth
Cast over with ancient eyes
…In a different light
Lizard trail scars towards the afternoon
Out on the lifeless sterile plains
The river runs dark
Under rusted stars

Mantel clock stillness of the barren ridges
Time melts under the river bridge
Down in the orchards of darkness
…Reap the sorrow
Foothills struggling under the moon
Windswept sparks cut the sky
…In a different light.

by
Cowboy Junkie
Looking Glass Falls, Pisgah Forest, NC.  Spring 2001.
Visit it now.
It was just a touch of love to be in your arms
For just a few hours
Just a few surrounding songs
It was just a touch of forever
To be by your side
Just a few memories
Just a few highlighted sighs
It was just a touch of love
To be in the midst of your tommorows
Just a few fingers of echoes
Just a few moments borrowed
A touch of Love
by
Annie
We walk on stones
That cross over our hearts
Learning to forget
Forgetting what we start
We walk over our passes
That lead to nowhere at all
Learning to survive
Forgetting who to call

(another great poem by Annie)
Stones
An article graciously sent to me by bagpuss.  To read some of bagpuss' writing, click here.
Crow Windows.


Rock cairns scattered amid wild grasslands
Montana stars glinting like Toledo steel
Tracks lead to the river
Pushing through wildflower shoals
Electric clouds crack coal flame skies
A ravens croak…across the seasons
The white mans burden a relic in the snow

Buffalo robes and battle shields
A rusted time-piece and ivory bones
A picture of desolation tinged with the bitterness of death
Medicine songs haunt the wind scoured plains
“Take from me my shadow
my soul shall take to flight
I am Absaroka
I am the last of my kind

Colours flying in the wind
Prairie fires through the winter wheat
The mystic sees the rolling hills
Under the thunder hooves of pte
The lights of a thousand fires
Underneath the brilliant stars.
by
Cowboy Junkie
Bridal Veil Falls, Highlands, NC, Summer, 2001
That summer in the Mediterranean
You and I put time out to sea
Creation was made for two
I had been desolate in heart
Like that barn falling in to rot
You were still missing that special touch
That he had given you. Lost.

Days were spent on the beach
Merriment in the golden sun
Sensations never were like this
Before.

Nights satisfied by a lingering,
A small cafe and the street musicians.
Hand touching hand; eyes staring into
Fate.

Packing our bags on the last
Day. I must return to a career.
You back to your perusals
At the university. Knowing that
My heart will never forget
Our dancing in the mistral
That summer in south France.


T.A. Thompson
Wake Up to a Gentle Breeze
Sunday gardening:
Bits of hard work
under my nails
by Wintersflower
Satisfaction
Yes, I remember the heat-wave,
I was cold all year.

When everyone else was baking
I was freezing within my mind.

Yes, I remember the water-shortage,
For I could have solved it all with my tears;

As I shivered in my old coat,
On those hot summer days.

by
Lord Pineapple
I Remember the Heat Wave
haiku
by
TA

babes with tans
need men with big hands
rub in deep