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For Elizabeth Grace |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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...and then the turmoil over the falling into light and cold of cloth the last hiccup softly sung there within your own beginning you quieted yourself. Your lower lip still trembling from your cry, within the sound my own milk drops again in phantom ache to mother, I touch your hair instead, your hair beyond soft, the color of a moonless sky.  Naked with your belly pressed to sheet, not pleased with placement you lift your head and look the other way, a most extraordinary feat. At that instant I see the truth of temperament, know something of your tenacity and will, envy the strength that turns your head away from mother to be within yourself. Not because I feel you turn from love, just see the strength in you that is already a song, someday you will be, yes, strong enough to get along. One finger touch across your naked back is touching a place never worn, of air in morning above the dew before the sun has opened, that is you. Your closed eyelids filled with tiny veins in graceful ballerina dance a feel of wonder....and of the power of something beyond life itself, something from the other place where maps are made. Maps are ever changing things, the folding left sometimes to chance, the weather beaten ones I hold so dear I wish for you to keep to find your way on small unlit dirt path instead of the dark line of road, and know the road you forge within yourself to be the most important goal. I wish your choices to be hard ones your walls and doors most difficult to build the value of the space and time around you, strong enough to open what you've filled I give to you the heart that felt your father grow into the man that holds you now with the love I helped him show.  ---------- I thought I'd repost this today on Ellie's 8th birthday...she is all that I thought she would be, and more, herself. |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
OMG....yep...it's that time... Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Grace.... Happy Grandmother's day, Martie. |
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threadbear Senior Member
since 2008-07-10
Posts 817Indy |
Pretty cool, Martie, to review this 8 years later, and compare it to now. The velvet love you feel was totally apparent in your words. Jeff |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Thank you Sissie and Jeff for stopping by to read and comment on this 8 year old poem. One of these days I may eek out a new one. I appreciate you. |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
What a beautiful birthday gift to your grandaughter, Martie. I hope she keeps if forever. Ida |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
What a wonderful poem, Martie, re-posted or not, I had never read it, sso it is brand new to me. To be able to understand the nature of one so very young is a miraculous thing indeed. To be strong when strong counts, that is good. More than good. It is divine. ~ Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get. ~ |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
The words and the pictures brought a tear to me. I think I'll end my evening with this declaration of love. It's very special, as are you, Martie. Alison |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Terry and I were talking today about our grandson's harrowing experience coming into this world on the 12th of this month, two years ago, and how happy we were to see his life so full of vigor. So it was truly wonderful to read this my friend and see/feel the love you show... j. |
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ebonygirl Member Elite
since 2011-07-14
Posts 2000California U.S.A |
So beautiful to read. ebonygirl |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
This was beautiful, Martie. My granddaughter turn 5 this month. Dang it, they grow so fast! Wishing Elizabeth a happy b-day. |
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