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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2001-10-12 02:56 PM

Union Station

Phantoms walk across the great room,
stiff in black coats,
a suitcase in each hand
and those ladies in taffeta
and hats with flowers,
maybe even a parasol,
languid and gracefully poised
waiting for a ticket.

I can see the dusty smile
of the clerk who nods his head,
and yes, he has a stamp,
I can hear it stomping time.

The lady cannot run,
she glides,
her feet like small afterthoughts
below her bellowing skirt,
and the gentleman proper in elbow holding,
soldiers a place in the movement
toward a great and vibrant adventure
of train with elegant dining and sleeping car
of romance in small places
quietly lulled and loved
as towns fly past the window
and cows and see that child waving.

Now
its lovely as a banquet hall for weddings,
and glorious and high beamed still
it is echoing hello and good-bye.
I can hear it eyes wide open
as if time has caught me in a merger.

A new full skirt of beginning
in white lace enters
with a tuxedo love flower dotted youth
and they pass blindly the wooden hallmark
where tickets issued destinations
far beyond a heart’s imagining.

Oh yes I do believe,
I believe in new beginning,
but somehow it hurts to see
time so emptied and proud
and loud with memory,
for I also believe in
the spirit of the past.

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repost from 4-00

Decaflame
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since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

1 posted 2001-10-12 03:04 PM

A new full skirt of beginning....

Oh, she will smile at that line, I am sure! This is wonderful!

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2001-10-12 03:06 PM

but somehow it hurts to see
time so emptied and proud
and loud with memory,
for I also believe in
the spirit of the past.
yes Martie..again you sum up so well in the ending an idea.... very nicely done with images that take the reader to the place your mind has been... as usual... excellent words and work...

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2001-10-12 03:11 PM

Martie! I am so glad you posted this again. I was not here then, as many others weren't either when it was posted before. I cannot pluck any particular lines from this as it would make me feel bad for the others that I enjoyed just as much. I do hope my sister is in here too reading this today! She and I both love this era...and oh the parasol....love it Martie, thank you!
~hugs and smiles, Nancy~

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before.~

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

4 posted 2001-10-12 03:54 PM

Oh, Martie, Am I glad that my sister(who shall remain enchantingly nameless), e-mailed me to come read this!! Every line an exquisite pleasure indeed. Chris

Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away.

LngJhnAg
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since 1999-07-23

Posts 3508
Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion

5 posted 2001-10-12 04:18 PM

Martie - You brought the station so alive with those images of then and now. I really enjoyed this.

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

6 posted 2001-10-12 04:28 PM

Wow...I was there as I read this beautiful
post. I could smell the familiar odors,
hear the sounds of trains, the murmurs within
a large cavernous room....

Thank you for taking me there.

Logan
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since 2001-05-28

Posts 1641
Arkansas

7 posted 2001-10-12 04:31 PM

My stars..loved every line of this..you are so good, Martie...very gentle smile

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

8 posted 2001-10-13 10:04 AM

Magnificent, Martie! Wow! I love it! A poignant blend of past and present!

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

9 posted 2001-10-13 10:22 AM

Martie~
My - oh my, oh my~
You just took me across a trestle of time~
How beautifully nostalgic~
Thank you - thank you~
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

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

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

10 posted 2001-10-13 10:34 AM

Thank you, Martie for reposting, I don't believe I read this before...you bring so much of the past back to life.
hugs

~Wynter

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

11 posted 2001-10-13 11:04 AM

Martie,
Thank you for reposting this beauty and it's all of that. *L* Sy

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

12 posted 2001-10-13 12:15 PM

A new full skirt of beginning
in white lace enters
with a tuxedo love flower dotted youth
and they pass blindly the wooden hallmark
where tickets issued destinations
far beyond a heart’s imagining.

Oh yes I do believe,
I believe in new beginning,
but somehow it hurts to see
time so emptied and proud
and loud with memory,
for I also believe in
the spirit of the past.
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seems this beautiful place has inspired wonderful things in several of you...
this is fabulous in its detail and intend.
Very very cool Martie-girl

me

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

13 posted 2001-10-13 04:31 PM

I've tried to put Martie into my pen...and thoughts just leak away...
I've tried to wax and wane and then...no thought for me would stay...
no one writes like Martie does, a bit of talk and chat...
but our Martie reposts for us, and I thank her so for that...

Big smiles for this!

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