September Member Choice Winner, Congrats to... Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

The September, 2004 Member's Choice results are in!  

Congrats to Psyche for winning our September Member's Choice Award with her tile, 'Patagonia Lost' !!

WAY TO GO "P"!

Your entry will be displayed along with a 'special graphic' in your signature! You have led your Muse to bask in the glory of the crown jewel.    

Congratulations! You have added a tile to our Mosaic in style. Thank you!   JOY to you, oh mighty one!            

Cheers!
Mosaic Musings Staff              

Member Choice Award Winner

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Patagonia Lost

In many ways I've left behind the things and loves
I cherished most, and yet as years go by the word
adios is bound to me with sounds of austral doves,
of unreal Patagonian skies, where a circling bird

will swoop to snatch a creature fleeing in the brush;
of trails the Puelche stalked in bygone days,
of Indian camps so far removed from noise and rush,
when armies hadn't sliced the steppes with railways

built to traffic guns, nor white man purged
the boundless plains of jaguars and ñandús.
Now concrete dams and pylons emerge
on cactus lands, now bones shed lucent hues

on tablelands swept dry by singing winds.
Thus memory is laced with images
of childhood pastures, as well as tender things
the mind will not let go despite the ravages

of time and loss. So to the present day I smile
to think of worlds I lost, of red horizons
receding in a cone of Southern light, as all the while
spirits summon me from mythic pantheons

of Patagonian lore. Yet in the mist of fading
thoughts that grip my heart, or force an odd grimace
to cling to phantom walls, I cannot bring alive the swaying
poplar trees, nor speak to you, nor touch your face.


Words in Mapudungun (Mapuche language):
[list] Puelche = Eastern people (of Mapuche tribe)
Mapuche = Earth People (mapu: earth + che: people
ñandú = rhea americana (similar to ostrich)

Psyche

Copyright © 2004 Copyright Sylvia Maclagan, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
All rights reserved as an unpublished work.

[Cleo_Serapis]

You are most welcome Sylvia!

P.S. The dove is still around - it's just that you have to click on the link to see 'all emoticons'..

Cheers!
Cleo