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Marsha
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0 posted 2000-12-21 05:09 PM



When I Opened This Your Door

You have the power to write beauty it just flows from your pen
And within your eyes lives magic, which I visit every now and then
You take me on journeys far across and around this beauteous land
And if and when I stumble you are always there to lend a hand
You are there when I feel a little sad and the tears fall from my eyes
And when I need some extra loving you send me to the Isle of Sighs
If I call out for you in the dark when fear is walking pass my door
You come to send the monsters away telling them to come no more

You play my heart like a master stroking my strings with such skill
No other can do it like you do sending my heart that certain thrill
You touch that part of me that I keep locked deep within my breast
My soul and essence, that place where my spirit takes her rest
You don't need to make any effort to reach within and touch me
I don't question how you did it, but perhaps you knew instictively
However it happened you have a direct connection into my heart
I'd be so lost without you, for you are now such an essential part

You feed my soul with life and make my spirit shine so very bright
Nowhere would my heart find another one so perfect and so right
The air you breathe has been sanctified because you touched it first
And I don't need anything else it's just for you my soul thirsts
You have the power to move me and fill me with visions of delight
And I could spend ten thousand lifetimes sitting within your light
You are all these things I say and then so very much more
Oh my beloved one I was blessed the day I opened this your door

Marsha



Take back the hope you gave,- I claim
Only a memory of the same
Robert Browning



© Copyright 2000 Marsha Grace Melody Todd - All Rights Reserved
serenity blaze
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1 posted 2000-12-21 05:24 PM


Where the "Elite" meet--congratulations to you!!! And what a post--totally Passion-filled...exquisite! Hugs to you. It is a delight, getting to know you through your words.
Professor Gloom
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2 posted 2000-12-21 05:53 PM


Very nicely done,
you use the long lines well,
enjoyable read.

Gloom

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3 posted 2000-12-21 06:51 PM


Marsha, you are TWO GRAND!!!!!!  
peppermint35
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4 posted 2000-12-21 07:05 PM


Wonderful Marsha!!!   I've always known you were elite

Pepper
"A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

LoveBug
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5 posted 2000-12-21 07:11 PM


Congrats on 2000! This is such a beautiful way of describing our wonderful home. Here's to 2000 more!  

"Where there is great love there are always miracles" -Cather
"Love heals everything, and love is all there is"- Zukav



Elizabeth
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6 posted 2000-12-21 08:04 PM


Passion-filled writing! And congrats on the 2000! /pip/Forum3/HTML/000766.html

[This message has been edited by Elizabeth (edited 12-21-2000).]

Sven
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7 posted 2000-12-21 08:34 PM


congratulations on your 2,000th Marsha!!!!

This is wonderful. . . from your heart. . . here's to many more. . .  

-------------------------------------------------------

That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


Irish Rose
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8 posted 2000-12-21 08:59 PM


Congratulations Marsha!  This is a gorgeous tribute to someone very special.  

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you."

Winnie the Pooh



Daniel J D
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9 posted 2000-12-21 09:56 PM


Marsha,
Superb for your 2000th, a very real expression of your appreciation. Cheers.

Respond to my call and let the waves of my heart fill your life with the wonders of love
(Daniel J D)

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10 posted 2000-12-21 10:21 PM


And now the "10" [lol] comes to beckon you on to 10,000...

just think, you'll be there by...the new year?...

Congratulations, Mushy Majestic Marvelous Marsha...



Karilea
If I whisper, will you listen?...
I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound.
KRJ




Paula Finn
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11 posted 2000-12-22 12:08 PM


MARSHA!MARSHA!MARSHA!...congratulations sweet poet friend...you have blessed us so with your presence...and your beautiful poems
Breathe~
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12 posted 2000-12-22 12:25 PM


I agree with Professor Gloom...you DO use long sentences well...and it works beautifully...

Nice job..

I love the time
and in between
the calm inside me
in the space
where I can breathe...

Sarah McLachlan

Janet Marie
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13 posted 2000-12-22 12:28 PM


Congratulations on your milestone post Marsha,
you have made it here in grand style with your poetry and your gracious replies.
Lovely poem to mark your milestone with.
take care
jm

Some people find subtlety in strangers
if you find anything~let me in
Your eyes~you see everything
my eyes~I see it all together now~and I know

CocoBaci
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14 posted 2000-12-22 01:50 AM



MARSHA, dear one, congratulations on your 2,000th post...

My compliments to you for this splendid poem...

coco

Marsha
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15 posted 2000-12-22 12:12 PM


Serenity, so superior, so super, so special so serene Serenity. Thank you love  
                        
Prof Gloom, perfectly poetical praise Prof, professing proper popular phrases. Thank you muchly  
                        
'Deer, delightful delectable delicacies (that'll be the spam 'Deer dear  . Thank you truly.
                      

Pepper love, pretty perfect poppet points penned poetical poems.   Thank you Pepper I always thought you should be one of the elite myself.      
                  
Lovebug, Looking livelier and lovelier than ever. Thank you so much I do really thank you
                       
Elizabeth, excellant exquisite elegant Elizabeth enthralls Marsha magically.
Thank you so very very much  
                      
Sven, Simply sensational Sven serves superb superior sentances. Thank you love, you know I really mean it.  
                      
Irish Rose, Thank you, (My brain has run out of alliteration) I'm overwhelmed with the love of you all. Thank you so much
                         
Daniel J D Thank you soooo very much
                  

Kari love, (How did you do that? I know you'll tell me when I'm older, why do my sisters always say that   )  the hills I've climbed before have never been as much fun as this. And look sis how far I've come.   (I have haven't I) Did you ever read those earlier poems of mine? Mmmm exactly they were weren't they.   Thank you love, have a great break. And I've finally been Christmas shopping too.          

Paula love, thank you sweetie, that is such a sweet thing to say take care. Oh and I'll be leaving you a little pressie on here with love from me.            
                      
Breathe, thank you, I think most of mine do have longer lines, I find them easier to write. Thank you very muchly
                  
Janet Marie, Oh love thank you so very much, I do love your work so very much and praise from you is such a compliment that I'm sure I don't deserve. Thank you muchly
                      
CoCo, thank you so very very much, I do so appreciate it and mean it
                       
Take care
       and   A Very Merry Christmas  
                   Everyone  


Take back the hope you gave,- I claim
Only a memory of the same
Robert Browning



Kethry
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16 posted 2000-12-22 12:31 PM


Marsha,both Mushy, marvellous  and Slushy, spectacular.

Sorry I'm tardy, I'm sorry I'm late
I took your advice, I've been outa the state  
so much on the run,on my holiday
no time for fun, no time to play  

I missed reading you, you know that's true
so what is a girl supposed, now to do  

I thought I will wait, be first at the gate
on your 2000th, I will celebrate  

Sing songs of good cheer, say glad you are here,
and wish you best wishes for the rest of the year.

During the time left, a week maybe more
I know your new target is 3000 and four  

So here is my rhyme, though not done on time
with thanks for your poetry, and wishes sublime  

Kethry




Religion is for people frightened about going to hell - Spirituality is for people who have been there. Anon.


Marsha
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17 posted 2000-12-22 07:33 PM


Kethry love, you know those very rare times when I am actually struck dumb, well this is one of them. I am moved to tears by this love, I really am. That is so utterly divine of you. And all I can say it thank you so much.
Take care sweetie
              Slushy Mushy
                    
Oh I really can't think of anything adequate to say I really can't, sending my love and thanks to you.


Take back the hope you gave,- I claim
Only a memory of the same
Robert Browning



Mark Bohannan
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18 posted 2000-12-22 07:44 PM


My friend and President...please forgive me for being so late in congratulating you on your remarkable milestone.  The poem was a beautiful way to mark your 2000th post and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making so many of them replies to me.  You are truely a treasure here to so many so I know that before long you will be celebrating your 5000th post.  CONGRATS.  So happy that you have found a home here with us.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
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Marsha
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19 posted 2000-12-22 09:46 PM


Mark my dear friend, I am the one who has to thank all here, and as I've said many times before, my reasons to thank you personally are too numerous to mention. I love all here, but like everyone I have my own particular favourites. And you are quite clearly obviously on that list. Your writing is always so outstanding and stunning that it is a pure joy to read. But I never ever just read it, without effort, without exception it reaches within my spirit and converses quite naturally with it. And this you do time after time, it really is magical. Your poems act on me in the same way that I gazed in wonder at Rodin's Kiss, or Michelangelo's David, and for that I thank you. As for being late, I was hardly early myself, and anyway when you leave such a wonderful reply I'm tempted to ask you to sin again, just for the pleasure of it.
Take care
             and may you have a fantastic
        wonderful Christmas
               Mushy
                


Take back the hope you gave,- I claim
Only a memory of the same
Robert Browning



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