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earthly things
mark your limits

invisible borders
are just that

snow chases you
from home

sun brings you
to me

hurls you
toward my fingertips

carries you
where it wishes
 
your freedom's
not in sun or snow

exhilaration
comes softly

excitement
without touch

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cheryl, "soil and stone" mean grave to me, so I'm reading about vivid memories of the touch of someone dead, "excitement/without touch." i enjoy it all. tom

Thanks Tom, no death involved really.  soil and stone is supposed to represent earthy, worldly, temporal things.  Not sure what I could use instead but will think on it.  I can see where you're coming from.

Had help with line breaks, this one, from a famous poet and he didn't charge me a dime.  I think he likes me. 

Ha!

Thanks again,
cheryl

cheryl a beautiful piece here.  enjoy the seemingly delicate tone amplified by with such strong emotional response.  S5 i might cut "gently".  for me, quite the opposite of "hurls" and frankly, enjoy that spontaneous hurling alone, comes off more uninhibited.  -lawrence

Hi Lawrence.  Long time no read.  Thanks for bringing up the gently thing.  It doesn't fit and now all the verses are two lines.  Thank you very much.  cheryl

Cheryl,

enjoyed this very much.  poem is captured so wonderfully in S7-S9.  good write.

tiko

In some few poems, a line will leap out and find a niche in my peanut brain:

'invisible borders
are just that'

Thanks,
Paco

tiko and Paco, thank you so much for reading and commenting.

cheryl

ethereal -- I love it

Thanks Rick.  I'm a bit surprised, but thank you.

cheryl

This brought a tear to my eye. It's gentleness and softness and yet somehow strength reads very powerful to me. A much enjoyable poem of love and having no boundaries.

Hi Jamie, nice to meet you & welcome.  Thanks for your comments.  Love shouldn't need boundaries should it?  Thanks, cheryl