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A poem, Et
By:Robert N Pruden
Date: 11/28/2012, 11:04 pm
In Response To: Re: Well, here it is...the balance board project (Etienne Muller)

I wrote this poem while hanging around the park on a day while the outside temperature hovered around the - 30 C mark. I was too bored at home so I headed to the park to read and just sit and watch:

Quiet moment in the parking lot at Mayfair Park

I linger in the park
Seated in my van
Chair rolled back and reclined
Facing a bright warm winter sun

The sun heats my face
Its light glints off the frozen surface of the duck pond
Blares brilliantly through my closed eyelids
I see yellow and blush red
And I feel its extracted heat radiate on my feet
Which press on the cracked windshield

It is very quiet
And I hear my relaxed breathing
I hear the pop and crackle
Of expanding and contracting metal noises from the van

While two people walk by…conversing quietly

Robert N Pruden

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Robert N Pruden -- 11/19/2012, 7:59 pm
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Thor -- 11/19/2012, 10:55 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/24/2012, 2:12 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 11/24/2012, 5:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/20/2012, 12:45 am
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Craig Robinson -- 11/21/2012, 4:32 am
Re: Off Topic: I need to build a balance board... *PIC*
Greg H -- 11/22/2012, 12:35 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/22/2012, 4:31 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/22/2012, 5:38 pm
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Craig Robinson -- 11/23/2012, 4:03 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/25/2012, 12:44 am
Well, here it is...the balance board project *PIC*
Robert N Pruden -- 11/25/2012, 1:06 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/25/2012, 2:11 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 11/25/2012, 4:32 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/25/2012, 4:41 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 11/25/2012, 5:50 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/28/2012, 2:29 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/28/2012, 2:35 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/29/2012, 1:06 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/29/2012, 12:33 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 11/26/2012, 7:53 am
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Mike Bielski -- 11/26/2012, 9:11 am
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Mark Vander Horck -- 11/26/2012, 11:27 am
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Etienne Muller -- 11/26/2012, 3:08 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/28/2012, 2:35 pm
A poem, Et
Robert N Pruden -- 11/28/2012, 11:04 pm
Re: A poem, Et
Etienne Muller -- 11/29/2012, 5:06 am
Re: A poem, Et
ancient kayaker -- 11/29/2012, 9:59 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/29/2012, 10:09 pm