Back When
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By Ricky L Gibbs
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Back When Where the sky touched forever, with distant mountains beckoning. Where even the prairie grass beneath appeared to be a moving thing. A warming breeze brushed across like waves upon a sea. As buffalo in countless numbers grazed there peacefully. While there along a dry creek bed he moved without a sound. For the moccasins upon his feet were like feathers floating down. In one hand he held an arrow. In the other was a bow. And his purpose was but one alone. To take a buffalo. Where the creek bed leveled out a bit he stopped and took his place. With arrow set he drew the string till two fingers touched his face. Then kneeling there his breath released as the arrow speed away. And life once lived in total freedom saw needs get met that day. When darkness fell, a large camp fire, did warm and shed it's light. As the hunter showed, with sparkling eyes, how the Great Spirit held the arrow's flight. |
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Submitted: Sunday, February 12, 2012
Last Updated: Sunday, February 12, 2012
About the Poet
59 and holding. Married to the love of my life for 35 years. We are a Christian family with 3 grown kids and a hard headed chihuahua named Peppy. I enjoy writing poetry and hope it brings a smile or maybe even uplifts a little.
Other Poems by Ricky L Gibbs
- A Few Days before Christmas
- A Happy Home
- A Moment Of Perfect Time
- A Mother's Love
- A Simple Cross
- A Stone's Throw Away
- A Time of Pure Perfection
- A Tiny Plant
- A Tree In Heaven
- Another Page
- Awakened
- Back When
- Bells Of Heaven
- Can You See
- Cancer
- Check _YES or _NO
- Comforted
- Comforter
- Connected
- Cover to Cover
- Crucify Him
- Defeated
- Dry Bones
- Eastern Sky
- Empty Paper
- End of a Worse Case Scenario
- Eyes Wide Shut
- For God So Loved
- Forgiven
- Forgiven 2
- From Bended Knees
- From Two Left Feet
- God Is Love
- Growing Up
- He Found a Place
- Heaven On Christmas Morn
- Heaven's View
- Holding Hands
- Hosana
- How Big?
- How Many?
- In God's Good Time
- In Memory
- In That Moment
- In the Beginning
- In the Midst
- In The Midst Of Happiness
- Instruments of Time
- Jesus Will
- Just Down the Road
- Just Imagine
- Letting Go
- Love Lifted
- Missed The Point
- Mixed Emotions
- Music
- Music of the Soul (WC poem)
- No Idle Talk
- Not Just Words
- Note to Self
- Of Sheep and Wolves
- Of Youth and Age
- Once Again
- Ovations
- Pictures
- Raptured Mind
- September's Pause
- So Rest Assured
- So Wonderful
- Some Might Say
- Spell Check
- Spring
- Stand
- Still Gonna Be
- Such as These
- Take a Little Time
- Tears of Love
- Tell Me
- The Christmas Story
- The Cross
- The Fight
- The Image
- The Liar
- The Light Eternal
- The List
- The Path
- The Pond
- The Power of His Love
- The Rising of the Son
- The Shepherd
- The Walk
- Thin Blooded Thoughts
- This February Day
- This Moment
- Thoughts of Autumn
- Three Days of Easter
- Tis The Season
- To Journey
- Two in Love
- Unspoken
- Watching Streams Become Canyons
- Wave upon Wave
- WC
- What Message?
- When in Between
- While Contemplating Redemption
- While Mama Sang
- While Waiting
- Wild Horses
- Willow
- Winds of Imagination
- Woolen Socks
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