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Southern Heart
by Nancy Pawley
copyright 09-06-2006


Age Rating: 10 to 127

  Southern Heart
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My heart's darkly tangled in green oaks and great dells
waltzing through old southern pines
like Scarlet at Tara with graceful young Belles
sipping sweet strawberry wine

The balcony is draped with free-flowing moss
Picturesque tales scent the air
White magnolias leaving stories embossed
In leather-bound pages, extraordinaire

Swamp-mist keeps rising in Silverside Cove
disguising its soul-searching ghosts
as highway bandits who constantly rove
the Black Beard Island seacoast

Hiding in shadows, they merrily wait
for coaches loaded with gold
Passengers meeting life's certain fate
invisible hands in death's stranglehold

The bodies are buried along with vast treasures
At least that's what I've been told
But roses and sparrows cast a special allure
On rambling pathways shadowed and old

Where long sunny days
marry mild starry
nights intwined in sunrise and sunset
rejoicing till dawn
with lightning bug sprites
softer than silk silhouettes

My heart's darkly tangled in green oaks and great dells
waltzing through old southern pines
like Scarlet at Tara with graceful young Belles
sipping sweet strawberry wine


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03-16-2007 Victoria Medley    

Nancy,

This is a beautiful poem that truly touched me. Being from Charleston, SC, home of the Old South along with Georgia, I can really relate to this picturesque version of Southern belles and palm trees. Simply marvelous.
10-20-2006 Richard Reed Jr    

Hi Nancy,

Ditto to everything Jim said. I have always loved and have been in awe of your ability to paint such beautiful pictures with words.

You're a poetry Picasso.

Great imagery, thanks for this!

Rich
09-07-2006 James Shammas    

This is a phenomenally beautiful and well-crafted poem! You make the abab, iambic pentameter rhyme scheme look so easy. The word choice is equally breathtaking. I would be very envious if this did not take you a very long time to compose (Just kidding!-- a little). Also, I love the effect of repeating the first stanza at the end, and how the reader will feel and interpret it differently after the journey the mind takes in the middle. I enjoyed this a lot!

PS: One minor technicality: The next to last stanza has three lines, with the first much longer. I wonder if you had meant to break it up instead.

Jim
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