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The Empty Lawn Chair
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The Empty Lawn Chair |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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The Empty Lawn Chair Come sit down with me, we’ll flop here on the grass and pick up all these lazy apples. The sky is melting its warm on my hair and I feel the hum of water seeping in the river that runs below the ground and vibrates against the sky, and in the hop of grasshopper leaf dance time opens. Cup your hands around your ears, now listen to the other place, the one with the slanted door where you keep your fragile wings. You have sent them tucked in velvet a time or two when I thought of you, all giggled and crinkle nosed with glee, and now I see the way an apple tastes for the first time all new with childhood. Remember the cradle? Time has wrought not this drenched tear from before, instead it bleeds exuberance into green and crisp and I take your sweet offering across the chasm of the back yard and I know the apple in my hand came from you. --------------- [This message has been edited by Martie (edited 10-15-2001).] |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I think if your hand holds it, the apple is all the sweeter for the tasting... well done, our Martie... |
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Startime Member Ascendant
since 2000-10-03
Posts 5918Canada |
So refreshing is this read....it tastes good to me. Very well done. Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Martie~ Beautiful ... and I love the thought of 'lazy apples'~  *applause* ... *applause* *Hugs* ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Martie, as always you have left me gazing at the blue page on my screen in wonderment! Thank you dear lady. ~hugs, Nancy~ ~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before.~ |
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Auguste
since 2000-02-16
Posts 3953By the sea |
An enjoyable read. Thank you for this. Michael Michael Auguste~ |
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Decaflame Senior Member
since 2001-05-11
Posts 1635 |
I found an empty chair, pulled it up, waiting for you... |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Martie, Once again you sent me soaring. Enjoyed |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Your images can not be topped that is for sure, I could almost see that grasshopper there! Fantastic poem Martie. ~I always have time to listen to someone talking from their heart~ |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
I felt like I was sitting there in the other chair....a beautiful read. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
and pick up all these lazy apples. and in the hop of grasshopper leaf dance time opens. and now I see the way an apple tastes for the first time all new with childhood. Sighhhh Martie, I love the imagery and the wonderful phrases and the serene feeling this poem gave me. I can't wait to pull up a chair and chat with you m'dear  One day!Maree |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Beautiful as always, Martie....and that new pick makes you the apple of my eye!  |
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