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To Still the Ache
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To Still the Ache |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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To Still the Ache The music was curved and golden and it felt like art, the kind you have to touch before you understand it. I would sing about it along the river of each wandering, and then one year I woke and found my voice was a word and it echoed my feelings, vibrated in the core of my learning and opened doors. Inside one door was love and it was like art that you have to touch, my skin was alive with it, like bees flying around a purpose, oh, I wanted to sip nectar. Then, when I found the perfect flower and whirling to airborne sought to capture it, drink it dry again and again, I couldn’t fly and was sick from all that honey. Next time I was a flute of perfect sweet pitched call, waiting, waiting in the big day with my sound reaching to cross the chasm and for the lack of listening ear, falling. So how could I still this ache to express that wanted, wanted listening? I thought that life would just stand still and wait while I did my search, checked all the pockets around me, sniffed the air for curly clues, and so you see I ended up in the back room stacked against the wall of doubtful. Now, I listen to the harp because it pleases me to see all those little notes fall around me and bounce, and if you understand why, I’m pleased, but mostly, I just like to hear the sound. |
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Sunnyone Member Ascendant
since 2000-07-06
Posts 5334Staffordshire, England |
Oh, Martie.., I think this is just the greatest!! You've just described my two most favorite pastimes in life......music and words!! Thank you for this one...into my library it goes, and to the top, too!!  ~~~ enjoy yourself ~~~ it's later than you think! |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
quote: *sigh*.... geez... to me? you said it all with those two lines.... as always, martie, a very fine write |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
keep listening my friend. . .  this is excellent. . . I love it. . . it's so dynamic and full of life and energy. . . reminds us of a lot of things. . . of which listening is the most important. . . ------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
Incredible - this goes stright to the top on fav Martie poems - I'll read this again and again - it is supurb! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Martie, martie, martie....sigh of sighs...how beautifully you express longing! goosebumps...and this? Is art that touches ME... |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
How I know this feeling....but how I am not surprised that it comes first from your pen....for I have not wandered these aching halls for a while... I think I shall revisit them just to find the beauty.... |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Sunnyone--I'm so glad you liked two of my favorite things also. Doreen--I'm always pleased when you respond to one of my poems... Sven--Thank you for such a nice reply...listening is so important, isn't it. Bill--I'm really glad you liked it...I wasn't so sure I did. Serenity--I'm glad this touched you...that pleases me. Karilea--I thought that was you I bumped into in the dark. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Martie~ This is a wonderful expression of you - The notes of the harp, so sweetly played. I am listening ~ *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
This is the first poem of yours that I have read. It will be one of many. Beyond thank you! I feel I can play in your words! |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Excellent, Martie! Very enjoyable read! |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Well poetic click person - do I need to tell you how I feel? Top 5 indeed...  K |
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Lady In White
since 2001-02-12
Posts 2799USA |
This is very, very lovely....haunting.... |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Martie this is so deep and beautiful...with the senses turned into a virtual dream reality of music and words.... I think everyone has "ended up in the back room stacked up against the wall of doubtful." from time to time. But life never does stand still while we do our search...it keeps moving and so do we, directly connected to it no matter what the circumstances. This is incredible writing ! I really enjpyed it very much! The poet is like a cocoon; in him the caterpillar of the past finds rest, and from him the butterfly of the future emerges. |
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