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young woman at rail




young
woman
at rail

a young woman leans
at bridge rail; I hear her sing
to swallows in flight

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Seren

Seren

16 years 11 months ago

Barbsdad

A friend recently sent me a picture of a bridge I can see a young girl standing on that bridge singing the swallows in .. lovely write short and sweet :) Love JayC
themoonman

themoonman

16 years 11 months ago

and her

with a human audience of one... did she see you? I believe I would have sat back and listened, and took the moment in... as I am now.
B

barbsdad2003

16 years 11 months ago

She ...

had seen me earlier as we had passed one another walking in opposite directions, but I'm sure was unaware that on my returning from the end of my walk, I had stopped at some distance to her back---to linger at the opposite rail, actually---and the wind was blowing from her to me, and her voice, so sweet it was ... so unexpected. It took me perhaps 15 seconds to realize that she wrapped herself, and her immediate environment, in a cappella, her face raised in the direction of the flying birds. I was astonished that she sung. The swallows flitted overhead, sweeping for buggy prey. Surreal it was. That she sang to swallows, that I was there to hear unobtrusively, that the wind blew slantwise against her face ... and then on to gust at me ... that the swallows flew their magic just above, that the creek below burbled a background chorus loud enough to hear above at the bridge, that her hair was dark and long, that she wore something akin to a sari ... and a trailing scarf that fluttered with the wind ... and that her voice carried, just faint enough/just loud enough that it seemed a part of the surrounding nature. An astonishing happenstance I will not forget. And thanx, Chuck PS: I did not tarry. Didn't want to spoil the moment for her by a continued eavesdropping that might be discovered. What she sang---and where she did it---seemed such a private thing. I left quietly, her voice growing smaller, more distant, as I walked on.
infinite_dwarf

infinite_dwarf

16 years 11 months ago

chuck

What a pretty little poem. Thank you for your kind comments on the doggie poem. ------------------------------------------- "Until that ‘morrow render unto me That which is mine my stipend well deserved The fairest flower of your progeny Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams The cruel consequence of your conceit" - Steve Earle
Mark

Mark

16 years 11 months ago

Chuck thst is sweet writing

young woman at rail sings to flight .......swallows A very pleasing poem, Chuck. The first part seems a sculpt. Don't mind my diddling :) Mark Trust is a secret that never comes home.
Cloudthings

Cloudthings

16 years 11 months ago

Lovely, I am captivated by

Lovely, I am captivated by it... ? like the bird she has sung into her presence~ Anni ~~~ "... sometimes I hear my voice - And it's been here .... Silent All These Years" ~Tori Amos.
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 11 months ago

Magic swallows

I MUST find a quote that has some of this wonder in it. I do however remember, also in Andalusia hearing from a high open window onto the street, a woman who was scrubbing the floors inside, she sang in a full blooded Andalusian voice and captured my whole attention for a while, it was so wonderful. Another time was in hospital when a woman with an untrained voice sang full swing with a whole choir on the radio, she had earphones on and didn'rt realise that she was heard by the whole room, that too was a lovely experience. Then there are the times one hears chldren singing quietly to themselves, its moving that! Ann of Norway OO look I forgot the stars. Here's the quote i found it:- p.210. Michener's 1 Spain.- "What I remember most vividly....as the matador and I walked a flock of swallows stayed with us, perhaps a hundred in all, and when we took a step they swooped down to the tips of our shoes, then off into the sky, one after another, so that we moved in a kind of living mandorla such as encloses the saints in Italian religious paintings. At times the swallows came within inches of our faces, swooping down with an exquisite grace past our finger tips and to our toes, flicking the swamp water with their wings. This continued for about half an hour, during which we seemed to be members of this agitated flock, participants in their spatial ballet, which moved with us wherever we went. it was one of the most charming experiences I have ever had in nature, comparable I suppose only to the day when I first skin-dived to the bottom of the coral beds of Hawaii; there was the same sense of Kinaesthetic beauty, of nature in motion, with me in the centre and participating in the motion."
O

orgami

16 years 11 months ago

Poem so soft and pretty

in a world of sometimes ugliness this pretty poem presently perfectly has captivated me to give you five stars I love bridges most people are scared because its unnatural for them and mud swallows build so high so their babies are protected from predators birds are wonderful creatures of God they take me out of me for a moment with them and your poem crafted has done this to me My two favourite things My little Lori sings too to her heavy metal music Korn and Limp Bisquit in her little sing song voice her skull shirt on You paint in so few words a magnificent picture my freind (I still Love the "Santa" coon Pic you have)