tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104080862011-04-22T06:34:05.118+10:00obsidian - granite - stone-henge - Karnac - treasure - crystal - malachite - ruby - emerald - mountains - river-stones .......... I love stones - watch this space for more stone poems .........Pamela Sidneyannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176846951494502630noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10408086.post-1108383582185170022005-02-14T23:18:00.006+11:002008-06-23T18:16:12.535+10:00<div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >This Curved Stone</span><br /></span></div> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">august sunlight<br />paints trees and stone-fences rosy</span><br />winter, like memory measures our brief life<br />caught in season's fragile balance</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">stone and moss grow in mountain's shadow<br />making pensive all who pause<br />on this sunburned hollow plain<br />compelling us like Narcissus<br />to face our mirror'd self<br />in this garden<br />of once unparalleled beauty<br />waiting for rain</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">shy wind-spirits skip and dance<br />inside their sculpted alluvial rings<br />creating havoc with clouds and dust<br />oblivious to chaos</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">wanderers still roam<br />the breadth of this curved stone<br />living by instinct -<br />reading fate in playing cards<br />describing life in the lines of a hand</span></p> <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">we are dust of star and stone and space<br />destined to return to our nameless home<br />to build again new worlds of sap and spirit<br />for we have travelled this path before<br />know the pulse of the raging flame<br />never not alight<br /><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;">fire-stone<br />near perfect<br />burns crimson<br />soul refined<br />pure gold<br />abandoned<br />to all<br />but love<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-family:georgia;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-family:georgia;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">Pamela Sidney 2004</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" align="center"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></span><br /><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.pamspoetrypitch.com/"></a></span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10408086-110838358218517002?l=stonepoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176846951494502630noreply@blogger.com