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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2001-08-14 08:06 PM

Is

Can I tell you again
oh heart of wishes
oh dream that dreams big dreams
oh youth
can I tell you
that this fragrant day
will pass
and that the moon is

Can this bursting
that hurls you against the sky
listen to a quiet moment
and hear the compassion
that clings to the fabric of time
listen to the pain
sizzle and dry on the hot cement
hear the laughter
through the tunnel
through the black hole
that melds time and distance
and fills up with the color of lasting

It seems this suitcase has been emptied
so many times
cleaned out and put away
washed and folded
where is the wrinkle that attaches
with that comfortable unwash
the human smell of knowing

So we feel the sharpness and sand it down
take the nub and straighten it
place fabric on the perfect striations
and cover the spirit
make the child draw between the lines

Can I tell you again
that the spirit that is rough rock and raging river
that folds its energy into creation
that changes one small grain of sand
over years into a jewel

IS

________
this is a repost

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-08-14 08:12 PM

This IS a repost of the best kind...because it needed to be...

hugs....

howpeculiar
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since 2000-12-12

Posts 56

2 posted 2001-08-14 08:43 PM

Martie, you have given me a smile and a quiet that was so needed today. *sigh* Because I am feeling like the sharpness sanded down, and because THIS

~
Can I tell you again
that the spirit that is rough rock and raging river
that folds its energy into creation
that changes one small grain of sand
over years into a jewel

IS
~

Speaks to me today as though you KNEW I was needing it... Well, thank you. Thank you for creating and sharing (again). You hold such a talent for words and for sight.

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2001-08-14 09:20 PM

Beautifully done and full of wisdom!

vandana

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since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

4 posted 2001-08-14 09:40 PM

enjoy

Soaringeagle
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since 2000-12-06

Posts 156
CANADA

5 posted 2001-08-14 10:39 PM

  THANKS MARTIE FOR BRIGHTENING
     A DULL DREARY DAY
          SHALOM

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

6 posted 2001-08-15 09:13 AM

Can I tell you again
that the spirit that is rough rock and raging river
that folds its energy into creation
that changes one small grain of sand
over years into a jewel

IS
you my dear lady..may tell me any time of rivers and stone..or of your life..and feelings..for your poetry

is

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

7 posted 2001-08-15 10:08 AM

Martie,
They say what is, is, but your is, is special. Enjoyed

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

8 posted 2001-08-15 10:26 AM

An echo to Capt. Hair. Lovely. Bob

Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

9 posted 2001-08-15 10:33 AM

Keep reposting, Martie
They are wonderful!
Liz

RSWells
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since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

10 posted 2001-08-15 11:05 AM

Rough reality can be a thing of beauty, untamed imperfection holds a majestic magnetism for an eye which perceives truth as something out of the comfort of norm. Enjoyed.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to decieve"

illusion
Member

since 2001-06-19

Posts 296

11 posted 2001-08-15 12:04 PM

Yes, please. The telling is needed.

I like this beautiful poem very much.

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

12 posted 2001-08-15 02:01 PM

Now this was beautiful and it IS a new one to me! Enjoyed it Martie.

If you have but one true friend when you die you were truly blessed
~* Mysteria *~

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

13 posted 2001-08-15 03:25 PM

Martie~
You have just given credence to the saying -
'What was, IS ... and will be again.'

This IS beautiful ... and IS a keeper~

I adore the ink in your heart~
~*Marge*~

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

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

14 posted 2001-08-15 06:24 PM

Martie-
   This IS just wonderful!
   I absolutely love it!

   Hugs,
   ~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

Mark Bohannan
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since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

15 posted 2001-08-15 07:54 PM

Just as "is" is , so shall you forever be and "are" the best among the best. Beautiful write as always and much much much appreciated by this cowboy.

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