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Garland of sunbeams |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity 
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 my tulip in the sun * * Garland of sunbeams Melancholic skies knock at my windows but I smile them into a warm cape of dreams where sun sparks gather joyously around my feet. Rooted in the light I stand in silent anticipation of dawn performing its magic at the horizons of my longing heart where the awakening is sweet. Who is this who climbs my tree and dances my branches into life? I know this unique scent of love leaving dew drops on my skin as if I was the lawn of all of your mornings. It’s you my son of the sun who lift me out of the shadows and generate a transfiguration, it’s you who grow and expand on me appealing to the eye and to the soul like a garland of sunbeams. Your love weaves the fabric of my cape of dreams into fascinating reality. And no dress fits me better, see, than your divine radiance clinging ardently to me like a garland of sunbeams. * * |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
THIS is a wonderful and very happy poem, Margherita. So many poets, myself certainly included, dwell on sadness and the blues to get them through the day. Thank goodness we have poets such as yourself who balance out our somber moods with such a delight as this beauty is. ~ Look hard behind you and you'll be able to maneuver around the pitfalls ahead of you. ~ |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Thank you, dear Jerry, for your loving generous reply. I am so to say melancholically inclined, but I know the way out ... most of the time  . To be aware of not being alone in this world, to be able to love and to reach out, makes us overcome the "blackouts" more easily.Wishing you well. Love, Margherita |
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dreamgal Member
since 2011-03-17
Posts 442 |
I really. enjoyed this, Jerry was right I too love to mix up somber and happy poetry Poetry puts me in a happy place all kinds but even when I write somber ones doesnt mean im neccesarily in a sad place . Good write! |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Margherita...light can lift so many things if we let it...washing away the gloom with a speical radiance that shines in this poem. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Margherita, this is macrocosmically (in a philosophical and motivational and healing sense) and microcosmically (in its very specific location outside your window in Italy) splendid, clever, wise and beautiful. It takes a whole host of people to have created Microsoft programs – but only you to have created this masterpiece. It deserves to have a huge readership, and all who read it will have their life enriched. This poem, along with Word Weaver’s poem called “Through Julia’s Eyes” are a way of life that guarantees the strength of character to find joy, happiness and abundant gratitude whatever the circumstances. And as memorable (to put it mildly) as your poem is, are especially 2 of the responses – your own and Martie’s. “I am so to say melancholically inclined, BUT I KNOW THE WAY OUT... most of the time . To be aware of not being alone in this world, to be able TO LOVE AND TO REACH OUT, makes us overcome the "blackouts" more easily.” “light can lift so many things IF WE LET IT...washing away the gloom with a speical radiance that shines in this poem.” I haven’t thought yet, exactly what, but somehow I want to have easy and immediate access (far more than their being in each of your subfolders in my Pip folder) this poem of yours, Margherita, and that of Word Weaver’s around me – perhaps print them out, have them laminated and put on the wall over my dressing table, yes, I think that is what I will do – but after I have been paid my half a peanut at the end of the month as I have a colour printer and want the photo as well and I need new cartridges very soon. I am laughing at the inadequacy of “Thank you”, but I don’t know how else to express it! Owl |
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Earl Brinkman Senior Member
since 2010-03-03
Posts 1183Osaka, Japan |
Having the courage and the belief that one can come through any trouble - as those dark clouds signify and grow in the radiance of the sun - is a lovely thought for these troubled times. |
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easy1 Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209Southeastern USA |
Enjoyed reading... nice flower pic, too! Dawn can be such a fascinating clue. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Dear dreamgal, thank you so much for reading and commenting. Life sends us daily challenges and to face them we all have our own ways. Expressing also the sadness allows to start the healing process no doubt. Dear Martie, thank you from my heart, beautiful soul and Poetess. You do know the source of light that helps you to accept what is. And now to you, my dear Diana. You said so much more than a simple thank you. I am almost at a loss for words  ... thank you for taking the time to comment so richly, so wisely, so generously. Among your many talents is the one that would make you the most efficient and precious critic of literary works ... you have been given the gift of deep insight and of refreshing amazing dialectics.Thank you for loving my photo too ... oh, I am in need of new cartridges too (they are so expensive really!). It is a honor to know you will print out my thread. Ok ... thank you again. (And yes I loved Marcia's (Word Weaver)poem very much too. Dear Earl, thank you so much for coming in here with such a loving comment. It is a question of survival actually I believe. If we let the darkness flood us we will most likely be unable to react. These are times of change and I firmly believe, against all odds, that humanity WILL EVOLVE and be able to let love reign, increasing the awareness that we are ONE. Thank you, dear easy1, oh dawn is inspiring always indeed. One of my personal favorite poems of mine is "The Bringer of Dawn". It is in the archives, maybe you would like to read it: /main/forumdisplay.cgi?action=displayarchive&number=92&topic=002838 I am so happy that you noticed my tulip too. Love and joy to all. Margherita |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Margherita, I don't know that I deserve those wonderful things you said about my abilities - but whether I do or not, I am in awe of what you said, and you have hit on one of the things that I am absolutely impassioned about doing and so miss from teaching. The bigger the class, the more opinions and interpretations to discuss and the more exciting it is. Unfortunately the poetry club that I run at a children's home is far from the level that I would love it to be at (but I am working at that, very slowly and carefully, so as not to curb the enthusiasm of the children who are disadvantaged children from all sorts of unfortunate circumstances and all writing in their second language, their first language being Zulu). Thank you for picking up on some of my passions. Owl |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
My dear Margherita Dolphina!!!! You're posting your illustrious poetry again! I don't have to search the archives every time I want a heaping of your heavenly scribes!!! ~ and oh, what a gloriously sunny poem this be! Reading it was a splendiferous way to start my day! It put some rosy pink in my cheeks a bounce in my step. ~ and that photo is gorgeous! Love you, Margherita la senorita que bonita! Linda Angelo Terrestre   |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
I just love your garland of sunbeams, dear Margherita. If anyone is fit to "wear" such a thing then you certainly are. Stunning picture too! Love Helen |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
quote: Now, I WIHWT...I truly do! Left me smiling, my friend! |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Thank you for sharing your brilliant light through this poem. You cast light on to my shadows and gave me respite. Bless your heart again and again. Lori |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
So lovely and uplifting! enjoyed! Kat >^..^< |
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steavenr Member Elite
since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058 |
loved the title and how you interwove it into such a spectral write...well done...enjoyed immensely |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
A pleasure to read and observe...James |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Margherita, this is distictively, beautifully your poem. I feel like I would recognize it as yours anywhere - and I love the photograph. Both are simply the definition of beauty to me. Love, Alison |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
PS - I love, love, love your profile picture. I do. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
You do deserve everything I said, dear Diana. What you do for these children is priceless, bless you! What about looking for or founding a poetry club of adults whose members would certainly highly profit from your presence (through your poems and discussions …). Thank you again. My beautiful Linda Angelo Terrestre. Every time I read “Margherita la senorita que bonita” I am given an explosion of smiles and what a healthy explosion it is! Thank you from my heart for your most loving reply. I OWE IT TO YOU that I finally took the pen again and wrote this poem which was waiting to be born. It makes me so happy that you love my poetry and even went to the archives. Now, isn’t that the greatest of encouragements! It is fantastic to have you back, dear Poetess and sweet friend. Big hugs. Dear Helen, thank you so much for your loving comment. Everyone is able to evoke and wear this special dress of light and its advantage is that its benefits permeate the whole being to the very core. I am happy that you loved my picture too. I have a few others on photobucket under “suissefan”. http://s741.photobucket.com/albums/xx53/Suissefan/ How good it feels to leave you smiling, dear Karilea! Thank you so much for telling me you liked it in that special way. I have learned the meaning of that abbreviation some time ago … Dear Lori, thank you for your kindness in telling me that you felt the light touch you. The closeness is felt … the garland of sunbeams can be of any length and width to emit and share its healing power. Thank you, dear Kat, for your loving comment. It was an uplifting experience for me and it fills me with joy that you too felt it. Dear Steaven, thank you, for your warm reply. It’s nice to count you among my readers. You must be used to the splendour of flowers, dear James, living in Hawaii! Thank you for your loving comment. The picture is a little bit “flou”, because I held the tulip in one hand trying to keep the sun right behind it and the camera in the other … Dear Alison girl, thank you so much for your joyous reply. You brought smiles. I do miss your own sweet picture, but I have long memorized it within my heart. Love to all. Margherita |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I've been waiting for one of your beautiful poems, Margherita and this one is a joy. Glad you are writing again. Ida |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Thank you, dear Ida, it feels so good to absorb your words of appreciation. I am waiting for your new offerings too, dear Poetess! Love and hugs. Margherita |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
Hello Margherita, It took time for me to rise my mind at your level of poetry, because english was difficult to me, now I can appreciate your mastering of images and words and the beauty well expressed of your talent...I love the idea of the poem which is enlightning and spiritful, these garland of sunbeams that you share with us moved me and made me feel celestial meaning, I enjoyed very much all these gifts of you. yann |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Love all of it but this especially.. "It’s you my son of the sun who lift me out of the shadows and generate a transfiguration, it’s you who grow and expand on me appealing to the eye and to the soul like a garland of sunbeams." That's great poetry! Eric true love never looks after it's own interests |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
It's been a while Margherita. I come away with a renewed spirit after reading you. Your poetry puts a lightness in my step and fills my heart with love. Hugs, good poetess~ [This message has been edited by BluesSerenade (03-26-2011 05:01 PM).] |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you again, for your kind words. I did actually try to start a poetry-reading club for adults, but the people where I live are too materialistic to be interested in such things. There was a poetry-reading group many years ago, on the other side of town, run by a woman called Ursula Cox, but when she moved to Johannesburg, it changed drastically and became very boring and artificial and it didn't interest me. Now, even if I heard of one that I would like, I don't have the time or the money for the petrol to attend. But at least I have access to Pip, the best poetry forum I have ever encountered! Owl |
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Misty Lilacs Senior Member
since 2005-11-15
Posts 1060White Birch Forest |
This lifted my soul and lighted my day. Thank you my friend! ooxx Marti I do the MS Walk everyday!! |
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Richy Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 3050 |
Dear Margy, this poem and picture are almost as beautiful as your lovely new picture. Radiant! |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
Margherita...I hope the sun continues to shine on you and blesses you with years of great uplifting poetry as this. Enjoyed...Paul ~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~ |
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s1nfully_1nn0c3nt Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105Watertown, NY |
My favorite bit- I know this unique scent of love leaving dew drops on my skin as if I was the lawn of all of your mornings. At the end of this piece, I was left smiling and speechless. Enjoyed.-Trina |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Dear Yann, thank you from my heart for your warm and kind reply. It is a joy to know that my words made you experience their spiritual essence. Dear Eric, thank you so much for telling me you liked especially that part, that was indeed the “core experience”. Yes, dear Lori, it has been quite a while since I posted a poem of mine. So happy that you enjoyed this one and that it made you feel “light”. That’s the gift. Thank you! And how lucky are we, the Pipsters, to have you sharing your beauty and your wisdom, dear Diana! Thank you always. Dear Marti, thank you from my heart for your loving comment. May “garlands of sunbeams” always light up your days. Spring is at the door and will enhance this state of wellbeing. What a lovely thing to say, dear Richy, thank you! And you are one who knows about radiance, as you share it often with us. Dear Paul, so good to see you back and writing again! Thank you for giving me the joy of such a loving reply. God bless you too! Thank you so much, dear Trina! Your comment brought a happy smile to me too! Love to all of you, my dear Poet friends. Margherita |
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Amaryllis Senior Member
since 2010-05-20
Posts 1306Mi now |
Oh Margherita, such a joy to read you again...I so enjoyed this garland, that I feel it has wrapped its warmth around my heart, so I always wear it..! Beautiful writing, lovely photo, and what an endearing message. Thanks for this!. Your friend, Amaryllis |
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CastleGuard Senior Member
since 2003-04-30
Posts 760Alberta, Canada |
Margherita - loved the poem, uplifting and refreshing, even though I sit here in near darkness in front of my laptop, I felt the warmth and light eminating from it. We all need a positive, enlightening view once in a while, and this poem certainly makes that point. Thank you. CG |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Such warm and loving replies from you, dear Amaryllis and dear Castle Guard. Thank you from my heart. Love and light. Margherita |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Ah, Margherita - you a a constant in a largely upside down world today. Your entire being is dedicated to positiveness and beauty...I always enjoy reading you and your heart felt comments to everyone... Thanks for being you... jimmy |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
ms mar.. I can see the girl woman of you running bare foot along the brim of the boy man of him lovely work ms |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Thank you so much, dear Jimmy, for your loving and kind comment, you touch my heart. Dear DS, thank you for your sweet interpretation ... yes this sounds good, especially in an ethereal fairy flower dress! Love, Margherita |
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ElizabethMAllen New Member
since 2008-09-11
Posts 3 |
How richly fed I am first by your amazing, magical poem dear Mar -- what a gift you have - with words - with hearts and life. And then by all the comments. I always marvel at how blessed I am by having you in my life. I would love to see your poetry put into a book. How it would bless our world. How you bless our world. Thank you, Love, Elizabeth |
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ElizabethMAllen New Member
since 2008-09-11
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How richly fed I am first by your amazing, magical poem dear Mar -- what a gift you have - with words - with hearts and life. And then by all the comments. I always marvel at how blessed I am by having you in my life. I would love to see your poetry put into a book. How it would bless our world. How you bless our world. Thank you, Love, Elizabeth |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Elizabeth!!! Oh, my dear friend, what a gift it is to find you in here and with such heart touching words. I am equally blessed to have you in my life, you know that don't you. Thank you for registering here. Pip Poets will love you and your poetry and you will love it too here I am sure. I am smiling with all of my heart for this sweet surprise of this Saturday evening (for me ... let me see, it is 10pm here so it is 2pm in Utah I think). You bless me and I am humbled. Love and hugs. Margherita ps I just realized that you registered back in 2008, so it was about time that you made yourself "manifest". smiles. "Love is the One who masters all things; I am mastered totally by Love." (Rumi) [This message has been edited by Margherita (04-03-2011 08:36 AM).] |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
Margherita, I love the idea of being cloaked to perfection, like the lily (where even Solomon was not arrayed like one of these) and I aspire to the vibrance and grace. You glow in your garment of praise! Such beauty to share.  ~K |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Thank you from my heart, dear Karen, for your beautiful comment! Love, Margherita "Love is the One who masters all things; |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
Such a colossal tribute to a seemingly tiny and fragile treasure that grows in your heart's deep well. Amazing, how inspiration comes from the most delicate treasures that grace our outdoor and indoor garden. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Thank you, dear EmmaRose, for your loving comment, you warmed my heart. Love, Margherita |
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