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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2001-07-25 11:10 PM

Following the Seabird

I see all those children’s faces
ripe and baring fruit
crinkled now with squinting years
breathing summer evenings with a sigh

they took a step past the time
the time that stood still
and burnt me with hot truth
and left me so bewildered

to dream and dance
to lace the night with love
to suckle a baby breathing in
that pure and fragile powder

and I wonder now
after years have passed and turned me gray
how they could have grown
to such a glorious time

when sweet serenity for me
had paused so long
and waited moons and suns
to draw such poison from my vision

that I could finally see
how life circles and dips
and fills its cup
and drains

and time dangles a wedged foot
till we are hanging over the raging
and see that the current
just might carry us

and peace dwells in the boat
oh not defined or named
the one that runs the rapids
and finds the calm

and still looks toward the place
where emergence rushes
following the sea bird
________
this is a repost from 7-00

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2001-07-26 08:41 AM

very nice...I enjoyed as usual...the images and the play on flow and thought..

Lady In White

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since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

2 posted 2001-07-26 09:17 AM

I look back on this, and see great wonder in where you have gone with your writings...

I think I need a new Martie wing on my Library...

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2001-07-26 09:20 AM

Martie,
Your words were like a flock of birds flying overhead, enjoyed. Sy

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

4 posted 2001-07-27 12:05 PM

A lovely write ... just don't follow that sea bird too closely

Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Loving in Truth
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vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

5 posted 2001-07-31 10:09 PM

Martie-
   Wow...I'm so glad I found this today.

      "to dream and dance
      to lace the night with love
      to suckle a baby breathing in
      that pure and fragile powder"
      _____________________

      "and time dangles a wedged foot
      till we are hanging over the raging
      and see that the current
      just might carry us

      and peace dwells in the boat
      oh not defined or named
      the one that runs the rapids
      and finds the calm"
      _____________________

   This is absolutely wonderful.
   You have such a way with words, my friend.
   You never cease to amaze and impress me.

   hugs,
   ~vicky

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

[This message has been edited by vlraynes (edited 07-31-2001).]

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2001-07-31 11:37 PM

Martie~
Always, always a delight to read your thoughts~

'and peace dwells in the boat
oh not defined or named
the one that runs the rapids
and finds the calm'

Yes ...

*Hugs*, sweet poetess~
~*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...

7 posted 2001-08-29 02:02 AM

Martie-
   Time for the seabird to fly again...

   Hugs,
   ~vicky

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

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

8 posted 2001-08-29 11:26 AM

Yes, a Martie wing, that would be the ticket, You do such amazing things with words!

Gwendrina
Junior Member

since 2001-08-21

Posts 33

9 posted 2001-08-29 07:52 PM

Hi Martie,

This is truly a wonderful and evocative read.
The "sea bird" is like a harbinger of change and discovery leading the poet to a new land
of being. I love the way you intertwine memory with age and reflection. The voice of
the poet flows smoothly and the lines are
laced with fine imagery.

Lovely,
wendy

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

10 posted 2001-08-29 08:34 PM

Fantastic writing, Martie! You sure know how to fly!

Poet Unknown
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 140
Missouri

11 posted 2001-08-29 08:40 PM

hey this was really good, very nice to read it =o)

Eternal agony, invisions of carnage, needles stabbing you in the eye, this is what its like when doves cry

Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

12 posted 2001-08-30 09:01 PM

Martie,
You continue to enchant and to captivate me with the perspectives from your eye.
Although I haven't always responded, I read what little I can and always take a peek at your poetry
You still amaze me
Liz

shadow974
Senior Member

since 2001-06-21

Posts 636
Michigan

13 posted 2001-08-30 09:12 PM

Just beautiful I loved it Martie.

Throw your heart out in front of you
And run out to catch it.
ARAB PROVERB

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