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Martie

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0 posted 2001-04-15 11:18 PM

The Family Album (for my mother)

From the porch swing of safe rocking
with that familiar squeak
I knew just the right rhythm to call home
with scabby knees falling so often into this lap
where breathing was better.

I see you now in your glass frame,
Marian of youth glow camera charm delicate
that twitch of smile
lips like thin petals
leaning towards me
from those black and white years.

What took you through the colored days
and all the intricate minutes
to the time when you found such pleasure
rolling up your pants
to just above the knee and wading the shallow end
with age dropping around you.

That minute when I stole your glee
for my album lingers here in treasured time out
for you in heaven have descended
to me again and again in warm folding
and covered me with that same precious blanket
that cradled my porch swing peace.

Sometimes the rhythm of time comes unglued
and frees me to fall back and hold you to me
in your magnificent pain
where courage surprised me with its display
as your fingers stroked away the walls
holding you with fragments of smiles
and took you drugged and delirious
across the threshold.

So in this opening
the past spreads its color
in front of me and I just want
to curl with you on that swing
and let memory drench me
with you.

(reposted becaue of love)

Rex Allen McCoy
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since 2000-01-30

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Sippin a Timmy's in London

1 posted 2001-04-15 11:37 PM

Just spent our first Easter ... without my mom ... sure do miss her but she's in our hearts and memories as well as our family album
You really brought this one home Martie

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

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By the sea

2 posted 2001-04-16 12:41 PM

Martie,

A lot of imagery and feeling in this one. Good work.

Michael

Proust-
"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

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3 posted 2001-04-16 08:04 AM

I knew just the right rhythm to call home
with scabby knees falling so often into this lap
where breathing was better.

I see you now in your glass frame,
Marian of youth glow camera charm delicate
that twitch of smile
lips like thin petals
leaning towards me
from those black and white years.

What took you through the colored days
and all the intricate minutes
to the time when you found such pleasure
rolling up your pants
to just above the knee and wading the shallow end
with age dropping around you.
==========================
Sometimes the rhythm of time comes unglued
and frees me to fall back and hold you to me
in your magnificent pain
=============================
So in this opening
the past spreads its color
in front of me and I just want
to curl with you on that swing
and let memory drench me
with you.
=============================

you just need to be kissed for this one...
what an amazing tribute ...
this is a very special write.
beautiful and perfect ...
"because of love" .... yes, indeed, and it shows.

me

In another life...I know I loved you then
Lightning strikes twice...we're destined again.
We dont have to make promises...we were always meant to be

Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

4 posted 2001-04-16 11:55 AM

"and let memory drench me
with you."

if I read no other words = this would be a "Martie" and be more than worth the read

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

5 posted 2001-04-16 12:07 PM

The most impressive part of this charming penning?

"Reposted because of love"

But you know I libraried it because of the heart shown....

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

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Tamarac Fla

6 posted 2001-04-16 12:25 PM

Martie,
You got me with this one. Excellent is too hard a sound. I'd say wondrous would be better. *L*

Martie

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7 posted 2001-04-16 01:19 PM

Rex Allen--I have been twenty years without my mother, except in sweet memory...I'm glad this stirred your thoughts of yours.

Michael--Yes, there is..thank you so much for your reply.

Janet--I think any poem written because of love...must be by definition beautiful. Thank you for being you.

Bill--Very sweet words...thank you.

Karilea--I'm pleased this has a place in your library...

Sy--Such praise from you makes me smile...thank you.

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

8 posted 2001-04-16 02:48 PM

Martie~
Thank you for rocking me in your memories.
Love you~
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

9 posted 2001-04-17 10:52 AM

What a beautiful tribute... because of and full of love. *S*

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