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· Between the Cracks

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Seagulls and Angels...
By Richard Lloyd Cederberg
Last edited: Friday, October 6, 2023
This short story is rated "PG13" by the Author.
       
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PORTRAYAL 16. One of those blessed days together that will remain forever a resonant echo in my life. For Michele Elizabeth...

SEAGULLS AND ANGELS...
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It was there suddenly before us. The trailhead we’d been hoping to find. That special path that would take us somewhere we’d never been. With no qualms, and after checking our water, provisions, and cameras, we forged up the narrow rain-moistened trail through dense evergreens and ferns, in search of the beauty we hoped to experience.
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Today I found your soul opening to myriad reflections glistening on the ocean in an afternoon sun. And as the wings of your heart unfurled, I sensed your imagination quickened as we neared the promontories crest. Out from us the white-capped water stretched south along the coast, and west to the visible horizon, in shades of greens and blues and whites.

Burdened from changing pressures the surface of the water was furrowing, like wrinkled old fruit, as storm-clouds began to form in the northern latitudes. In pine-scented gusts refreshing breezes were influencing the treetops. Swaying rhythmically, a choir of sounds (as a whispering of ancient voices) was welcoming us to a place known only to seagulls and angels.
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Here, encompassing us; shades of Elysian splendor - imprinted with myriad involutions of life and colors and smells - held us both enchanted in the eye of the Creator’s ineffable invention. Today my love, in these treasured moments, our hearts soar in this place where living seems uninfluenced by the collusive tendencies of man, as we flow in unity with creation, and a sense of belonging prevails with Spirit. I love you.
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(C) richard lloyd cederberg
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“Nature is man''s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.” Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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THE PORTRAYAL SERIES: Poetiprose insights (good and bad) concerning my immediate family and old friends (alive or dead). This series will also address certain of the actors, artists, musicians, and writers I worked with in college, or professionally, who were all influential (in one way or another) in shaping the man I am today.                     

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Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on May 22, 2014
I could go on and on as to the impact of this revelation imbued experience you've shared, but suffice to say those of us who have found similar experiences with nature are indeed fortunate, for the suffocating nature of cities are gradually, but effectively, spreading their consumptive toxins into the very oxygen nature demands to keep images and feelings alive like yours. Faith help us. Well done.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on May 22, 2014
Not only is nature cleansing and enlightening, it is inspiring you to write words that elevate the human condition. It makes me long for those silent walks that I took so many times like Thoreau on Walden Pond with only my thoughts to commune with. Unlike you, my thoughts often strayed to hoping that I had someone with me to share such beauty with.

It is so good to see your words grace these pages again.

Ron

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on May 21, 2014
On its own this is a poem of breathtaking beauty. On inspection it is also a portrait in how to write with feeling and majesty for the beginner and for the advanced writer.