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Awakening Teary-Eyed Moments

childhood, creation, feelings, growing up, heaven, imagery, word play, Awakening Teary-eyed Emotions © Collect upon the stillness Count down the seconds Clouds have overshadowed Calling tears to flow Channeling down overboard Conforming eyelids like levies given way. Cradled tongues wait at mouths door Challenged upon and brought to bear Casting seasons’ awakenings Claiming the everlasting senses Climaxes set to mind, tell us more? Companionship spent and lost and made Crammed and stored in the annals of yesteryear Crumpled and ironed for second thoughts 'thrice' Camped together with ‘no rhymes nor reasons’ Chained and then unlocked to the here and now. Chapters of school’s hard knocks mount Carries home memories of no mercies given Cruelty handed out without ‘thought or rhyme’ Critically learnt when it was your turn in time Compassion for the unjust is sorely brought! Cry the babbling brook booked for ‘trials and tribulations’ Carried forth and slowly savored 'thrice' times more Channels of tears in troughs carve canals downstream Catch that tear on the tip of an out-stretched tongue Collection feeds at mouth’s opened doors! Coupled pages with splashed tear-stains Corners dog-eared against lost at sea Crowning and cresting for one another’s birth Creation is all but one tear withheld Crimped thoughts are cause for flood alert! Cleansing from tear-streaked faces upturned Catching like snowflakes upon tongues burned Concrete hurts when taken to ground Correlating harsh licks where feet do tread Chapters are ticked to this noted fact! Childhood skips but a beat Children plying their ropes Cranking out all their hopes Counting each skipped rotations Crossing fingers for one more turn!" Chanting and skipping to “SKIP TO MY LOU”! Caroling so distinctly to skip/hop once again Calling next one for rote to take their turn Counting out so intently for each jump made Charmed verses so telepathically. “C” is for creation “C” is for calling “C” is for coming “C” is for collecting “C” is for climaxing “C” is for cradling “C” is for care-giving “C” is for countdown “C” is for challenges “C” is for courage “C” is for communicating “C” is for crying “C IS FOR CANCER “C” is for curing of the body and soul “C” is for chartered awakenings “C” is for camphor fumes in the heavens glory “C” is for comfort always a “tear in disguise”!

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Date: 6/5/2015 8:00:00 PM
Enjoyed this write! Liked your imagery and metaphors
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Date: 6/4/2015 1:48:00 PM
Hey Diane, stopped by for a visit. Such a magnificent treatise on a powerful letter. Until now, I didn't realize how much the letter C fills up our lives. Beautifully written in form and expression. Well done!! Be Blessed, Neva
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Diane M Quinlan
Date: 6/4/2015 2:51:00 PM
Hello Neva, Neither did I know just how the letter "C" filled our lives. Why was that picked for its entirety when I had a mind to write on creation? And as a poet yourself the rest just fell into place. Worded thoughts if important enough find, and I have noted---will set into a pot to simmer way back in our minds....all we need is listen to their calling. I notice you visited when I had just finished posting--- I guess we can say happen chance on that 'C" count to occur! Were you called too?....didee

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