Birth- The Sunrise on a Spring Day When all is Fresh and New, A Being of a Long and Full Life.
Youth- The Midmorn Sun in the Summer of Life Free and Careless to Grow and Learn, on the Ever-Growing Path.
Middle-Age-The Sun at High Noon in the Fall of Life A Time of Slowing Down and Questioning the Where, the What, and the Why Of a Life that is Half Passed By.
Old-Age -The Sun in Late Aft'noon in the Winter of Life When the Chill of the Air,and the Bone Appear A time of Looking back on Life's Long Path.
Death- The Sunset of a Winter's Day An Ending in Peace and Quietness, Life is like the Seasons, After Winter comes the Spring.
In Extremis
Death, a coming and a going, A time of sorrow and of joy.
A time of sorrow for love ones Who are left behind.
A time of joy in Heaven For one who has come Home.
Those I wrote way back in my high school days. i thouhgt I'd share them with my celted brother and sisters.
High School? You knew what it felt like to be middle aged in high school? Seems you must have been a perceptive one. You really nailed what it is like. Slowing, questioning and the realization - if we're lucky - life is half over.
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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. - Frederick Buechner
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they are wonderful, truely....why did you ever stop??you paint beautiful pictures with words, it is a gift.... high school was the time when ours lives were really upside down weren't they???i mean hormones....am i going to get asked to the school dance or left by the side of the road again?????will i have any friends this year( you say it every year when you change grades)but then....what an adventure!!!the highs, the lows, then the plain extraordinary days when you feel you could conquer the world, the miracle of your first kiss, the list goes on,eh?
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Here's one of my favorite "old ones" "Corpus Christi Carol"
He bear her off, he bear her down He bear her into an orchard ground Lu Li Lu Lay Lu Li Lu Lay The falcon hath bourne my mate away
And in this orchard there was a hold That was hanged with purple and gold And in that hold there was a bed And it was hanged with chords of red
Lu Li Lu Lay Lu Li Lu Lay The falcon hath bourne my mate away
And on this bed there lyeth a knight His wound is bleeding day and night By his bedside kneeleth a maid And she weepeth both night and day
Lu Li Lu Lay Lu Li Lu Lay The falcon hath bourne my mate away
By his bedside standeth a stone Corpus Christi written thereon
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Those vocables are familiar, but I can't recall from where. I won't pretend that I can place if you are quoting a poem from somewhere or if it's genuinely original (I'll assume the latter given context). It's pretty, and reads well in either case
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QUOTE (Aaediwen @ 08-Jun-2006, 06:44 PM)
Those vocables are familiar, but I can't recall from where. I won't pretend that I can place if you are quoting a poem from somewhere or if it's genuinely original (I'll assume the latter given context). It's pretty, and reads well in either case
Oops--well I certainly wasn't claiming those were my words...I thought I saw something posted elsewhere in this forum which just shares a known (already written) poem...is is rule that it has to be our own words? Just thought I would share a poem/lyrics that were just lovely, no matter what the source.
i also did a lot of googling and such, and i have no idea! i think it is most definitely a jeff buckley original, because i couldnt find anything else, but who knows.. let me know if you find something out, McKenna
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QUOTE (McKenna @ 16-Jun-2006, 05:08 PM)
Oops--well I certainly wasn't claiming those were my words...I thought I saw something posted elsewhere in this forum which just shares a known (already written) poem...is is rule that it has to be our own words? Just thought I would share a poem/lyrics that were just lovely, no matter what the source.
No rule that the words you post have to be yours. However, most people only tend to post their own here. It's always a good idea to list whose words you're posting if they're not yours