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Fingers snapping

she skips, the laughing

... of sapphire leaves.

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(Inspired by Santeri Sarkola's "Fairypath" at 1x.com)

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Shards of me
calling to forest
... begging the rain.

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Star-cloaked forest
forest cloaking a secret
... lover cloaking lover.

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Now, to little woods
to walk a little dream
... a little while.

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Secret marriage
Rowan and Cedar
... love the one you're with.

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To woods I resolve
a happy fool
... to tiny old spirits.

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Like the hawthorn
keeping to thick forest dreams
I'm found ... and lost.

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Brash winds
give way, of course
... to willful forest.

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Why beyond these skies?
Why even beyond these trees?
... Why, why beyond home?

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The Tao of Trees:
Dig - Drink - Reach - Drink
Dance - Drink ... Dream.

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Without need
or spare moment to tell
... stories of forest.

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Deep within book
fae glade and a lover's face -
holy places.

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Prayers whispered
with hush and shadow parsons
in stained chapel forest.

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(Inspired by Zsaj at Flickr)