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    Fences
    Fences
    Fences
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    Fences

    By John Siwicki

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    Poems that explore the experience and challenge of life. One step at a time,  day by day, month by month, year by year.Poems that explore the experience and challenge of life. One step at a time,  day by day, month by month, year by year. Journey through the fences of time!

    Dream, hope, and celebrate! Flying high above the trees is the music of life. It can be seen as well as heard, tasted, felt, and eaten. Every sense caresses our body and our soul. This is real, on the table, so grasp it before it's gone. Life is not a fantasy— Journey through the fences of time!

    Dream, hope, and celebrate! Flying high above the trees is the music of life. It can be seen as well as heard, tasted, felt, and eaten. Every sense caresses our body and our soul. This is real, on the table, so grasp it before it's gone. Life is not a fantasy—

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSLABYPRESS
    Release dateNov 1, 2006
    ISBN9781519983831
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      Fences - John Siwicki

      fences

      John Siwicki

      Copyright © 2006  John Siwicki.  All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced,

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      without written permission of the author.

      ISBN 0-9774118-3-4

      For information about this publication

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      SLABYPRESS

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      Arcadia, WI 54612 

      U.S.A. 

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      Technical, Cover, and Book design by JBS

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      not fantasy

      Flying high above the trees

      Is the music of life...

      It can be seen

      As well as heard

      Tasted, felt, and eaten

      Every sense

      Caresses our body

      Our soul

      This is real

      On the table

      Grasp it before it’s gone

      Life is not a fantasy

      fences

      All I hear is the rain pouring down

      From the dark, cloudy sky

      Similar to a machine’s din

      On a relentless journey downward

      Slapping homeward against the windows

      Not with complaint, but enjoyment

      Being pummeled, drop after drop

      Outside, the leaves of the trees and plants

      Are spanked by the drops of falling liquid

      Gradually the relentless torrent

      Sounds different from rain,

      An angry thunder, a tempest, a lion’s roar

      Fierce, angry savage...

      Then the volume transforms itself

      As I listen to it collide into the roof

      A hammer driving a path desiring to go down

      Flat on my back, safe in my bed

      I lie with my eyes and mind wide open

      As my senses absorb the night

      The ceiling begins to glow brightly

      Twinkling stars from another galaxy

      So close yet possible to grasp

      Up to the boundless frontier my hands go

      Desiring to hold the stars with my fingertips

      Slowly dancing through the air

      Until they freely surrender

      Unable to break free from my arms

      Acting as a leash handcuffing my hands

      Clutching them close to my body

      My digits begin to move independently

      Putting on a show, bending back and forth

      With this galaxy of stars as a backdrop...

      Shapes sprout from the vast world I see

      Suddenly they burst forth alive and graceful

      As I view this display, I plunge into a feeling

      Of expectation and notions...

      Energy from the storm alive in my mind

      Thunder, lightning, a tornado...

      Spinning through my imagination...

      With me as the guide-

      Just then in the confusion of the storm

      Eyes close, I melt into a dream world

      Perhaps I’ll remember this night

      My heartbeat rocks me into a trance

      Eyelids fluttering kinship to the raindrops

      As I hear the beads rap and roll

      Down the window into an infinite cosmos

      I hear violins singing to each other

      As I fall through puffy white clouds

      My body glistening from rays of sunshine

      Reflecting off of my body

      The violins change into chirping birds

      Hunting for their breakfast

      I feel now is my time!

      Walls to tear down, chains to break

      Fences to cross, one more step

      No fear dancing with the stars

      Every day I have breath...

      I recall being quizzed at an early age

      About why I could not sit still

      I

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