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Martie
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0 posted 2007-02-12 09:51 PM


        


Dear love,

Where you nested
my heart grows lithe,
as with my own whim
I've flown away from solitude
and found breach of delight within.

I can't love you into stillness,
like rain you come refreshed
as I weep for what was ravaged
I keep the harvest's goal,
Oh, significant wonder,
girl's gone beautiful soul.

I can gently part the curtain now
on what I thought that I should dread,
and find in truth a grace amazed
by my own light, wavy threads.

I have no doubt my sigh and cry
weighed heavy on your placement
with time's perfect patience,
so I threw them in the brier
I thought I held for you
to soften a girl's bad dream come true.

To question is my degree,
so I ask miraculously
significant wonder touching grace,
and though flesh is an unworthy tool,
I see you smiling in my face.

I see the pages turn,
hear the sound of paper,
know the end has such integrity
that I want to skip a page or two
to see what happens later.

Keep well, this home of heart
has been growing from the start
from a chain anchoring one into the other,
where there is no end to the devotion
from you, my daughter
forever in the lasting of me, your mother.

Could I but see the distance
plague the stone so I could fly,
curiosity would lick the slurry
until the sap in me was dry.

So, my love I have a feeling
on the page that says, the end,
when I've eaten apples to the core
there'll be a light in me, not dim,
that still will want for more.

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[This message has been edited by Sunshine (02-13-2007 07:10 AM).]

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Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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1 posted 2007-02-12 09:54 PM


absolutely B E A U T I F U L !!   RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

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2 posted 2007-02-12 10:43 PM


Beauty is as beauty does.
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3 posted 2007-02-12 10:45 PM


for some odd reason that I can't put my finger on just now, I needed this tonight
Martie
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4 posted 2007-02-12 10:47 PM


Thank you, Poet friends....

[This message has been edited by Martie (02-13-2007 12:29 PM).]

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5 posted 2007-02-12 10:56 PM


quote:
So, my love I have a feeling
on the page that says, the end,
when I've eaten apples to the core
there'll be a light in me, not dim,
that still will want for more.

That little light of yours shines through you so brightly, and somehow I doubt that will ever dim.

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6 posted 2007-02-13 07:54 AM


quote:
To question is my degree,
so I ask miraculously
significant wonder touching grace,
and though flesh is an unworthy tool,
I see you smiling in my face.

I see the pages turn,
hear the sound of paper,
know the end has such integrity
that I want to skip a page or two
to see what happens later.

Keep well, this home of heart

Michelle's touch
touches all.

A beautiful rendering, sissie.





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7 posted 2007-02-13 08:26 AM


SweetMartieSis~

'I see you smiling in my face.'

And beautifully so~

Softly ... ever softly ... you let us join you in remember~

*HUGLETS*
~*Marge*~

~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email -             noles1@totcon.com

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8 posted 2007-02-13 08:43 AM


I see the pages turn,
hear the sound of paper,
know the end has such integrity
that I want to skip a page or two
to see what happens later.


I have no words to say other then, magnificant....shaking my head in deep amazement....

Tom Zart
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9 posted 2007-02-13 10:33 AM


A good poem by a poet of great passion and
and wording.

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10 posted 2007-02-13 11:38 AM


wow Martie - you touch us all very deeply!!! Paul
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11 posted 2007-02-13 06:42 PM


Martie...You write tender memories of Michelle so beautiful. Hugs to you...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

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12 posted 2007-02-13 06:50 PM


Remembering Michelle through your beautiful heartfelt words dear Martie.

In the midst of winter,
I found there lives within me..
An invincible summer.

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13 posted 2007-02-13 07:52 PM


Martie,

   I'm glad you shared your very lovely, heartfelt poem. Her picture displays such sweetness, just like her mom.  It is such a lovely picture; her eyes have so much depth and understanding.

   miscellanea
  

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14 posted 2007-02-13 08:01 PM




"Oh, significant wonder,
girl's gone beautiful soul."

so much of Michelle's soul
right here
in your words Martie

so perfect
for your perfect girl


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15 posted 2007-02-13 08:54 PM


Wonderful writing...James
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16 posted 2007-02-13 09:06 PM


Dear Martie, You touch us all so tenderly with your beautiful words and you bring Michelle to life in our hearts with such grace.  There will one day be "the more".  My best to you always.  Hugs, Helen
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17 posted 2007-03-05 04:27 PM


Keep well, this home of heart
has been growing from the start
from a chain anchoring one into the other,
where there is no end to the devotion
from you, my daughter
forever in the lasting of me, your mother.

As lovely as it is loving... Your poems for Michelle are always among your best. *S*

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