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APW Group Poem

Completed 23 Mary 1999


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Magnificent Peak


By its own nature

the snow lays a blanket for all to see.
Tonya Johnson
USA - Thu Jan 14 11:27:19 1999
The seams of green and the wilt of beauty
Jennifer Gem
Rapid City, SD USA - Fri Jan 15 13:51:04 1999
only encourage an understanding of
Page
Edinboro, PA USA - Sun Jan 17 16:31:12 1999
God's wonderful gift, LOVE.
Annamarie Newland
Greenville, NC USA - Tue Jan 19 09:40:52 1999

To each and every person who lives on this earth
Martha
Dawsonville, Ga. USA - Tue Jan 19 20:01:54 1999
is the opportunity for joy to erase all the hurt.
kristin
TX USA - Wed Jan 27 16:04:03 1999
Defy the glacial wisdom if you dare
Jon Lishman
Chesham, England - Sat Jan 30 21:27:50 1999
and rub antlers against stone ribs, peeling leafskin of human language.
Eliza Shefler
Albany, CA USA - Wed Feb 3 18:43:29 1999
It is only when I am this high that I know I have to climb the rest of you
Leigh Youngs
Raleigh, nc USA - Wed Feb 3 19:43:48 1999
to fight that foe climbing dawn til dusk.
Martha
Dawsonville, Ga. USA - Thu Feb 4 19:00:15 1999
For now though, I wait at this resting place,
Pat Fargnoli
Keene, NH USA - Mon Feb 8 17:47:52 1999
with questions too rough in my palm that have no answers.
chris crockett
San Mateo, ca USA - Mon Feb 8 20:51:50 1999

But as the dawn filters through the soft pines,
Alex Gibson
Huntsville, AL USA - Fri Feb 12 12:58:51 1999
I warm my solitude with blankets of snow;
christine
San Mateo, CA USA - Sat Feb 13 22:24:49 1999
with my words joining winter like fine, white scarves,
David
TX USA - Wed Feb 17 23:46:15 1999
my enlightenment freezes into the mountain.
E.T.
Lincoln, NE USA - Fri Feb 19 01:32:18 1999
Thus, by its own nature, my soul cries out
Alex Gibson
Huntsville, AL USA - Fri Feb 19 11:15:33 1999
through its blankets of ice for all to see.
christine
San Mateo, CA USA - Sat Feb 20 19:59:53 1999

I tell of the wild beauty I have climed so high to see
Martha
Dawsonville, Ga USA - Sat Feb 20 20:24:51 1999
that has for so long eluded me,
Arjun Purkayastha
New Delhi, India - Mon Feb 22 09:14:22 1999
this magnificant peak, its icy waist above the gentle seas,
Alex Gibson
Huntsville, AL USA - Wed Feb 24 11:45:52 1999
in desolation reaches for the empty skies,
Izabel
USA - Sat Feb 27 20:40:45 1999
but here lies something so magnificent in all, God's creation.
Martha
Dawsonville, Ga. USA - Sun Feb 28 03:41:56 1999

As I look down from this magnificent peak
Arjun Purkayastha
New Delhi, India - Mon Mar 1 08:25:48 1999
upon the chaotic world that surrounds me,
Amanda Lee
St. Louis, MO USA - Sat Mar 6 08:18:04 1999
my heart soars in fledgling anticipation of
Harriett Barrett
Camden, SC USA - Tue Mar 9 09:58:40 1999
this world to come to a halt.
Amanda Lee
St. Louis, MO USA - Tue Mar 9 16:34:33 1999
In weary rest of Chao's being upon
Jaime Brownyard
USA - Wed Mar 10 22:48:30 1999
won't thys' passion flee us son?
Charles Stout
Lakeside, CT USA - Sun Mar 14 22:27:39 1999
By its own nature, this magnificant peak restores
Jan
monroe, la USA - Tue Mar 16 09:17:33 1999
desire that unleashes my hungry passion
cindy l
spring, tx USA - Wed Mar 17 22:50:59 1999
for freedom.
Cj`
Lakeside, CT USA - Thu Mar 18 15:09:01 1999