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A Meaning that can't be Told
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A Meaning that can't be Told |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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A Meaning that can’t be Told Where do you start when telling the heart? On paper plates of yearning or between the words is a meaning that can’t be told. If I say I cannot be without the blue of your eyes melting, it would be the touch of your listening soul that stirs me. If I say your touch is the power that makes my surface weep it would be the melting of your breath that burned me. Dressed up in the silk of words I try to nestle into a verse that gages the measure of my love. It is like the distance across the dessert floor to the horizon, it has no fathom or circumference it cannot be multiplied or squared. To tell the heart cannot be done, I think as a stride across the page with exclamation points, bold or italic only point out in letters my inadequacy. I will touch your hand instead and because you know me you will know behind the surface and the ink of a thousand words my expression can envision there is something else intangible and free something between the lines that can’t be told. In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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Astraea Member
since 1999-11-09
Posts 378California! Yeah! Okay, I'm done now |
Wonderfully told. Very lovely. ~Astraea "Sometimes stars can only be seen in darkness." "Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Yes, very lovely, Martie! Denise |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
This is magnificent. (I was going to put an exclamation mark, but that is inadequate) I love your work, what more can I say? Liz |
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whiskey
since 1999-12-28
Posts 1278Australia |
This is wonderful , Very beautiful , you are very good |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
How can I even think about writing free verse when you set the standards so high? You are great, Martie. |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
Pulchritudinous!!! ~*~ Hell is not a place of fire and a devil with a tail and horns. But a place of torment because the light of God is gone. To escape this, accept the blood of Jesus Christ! ~*~ |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Oh, thank you, thank you everyone!!!! Echo, you got me with that word--you are so cute  In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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