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Martie
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0 posted 2002-12-23 09:47 AM


Music from the Corner of Winter

We are wearing thin the rooftops
of the castles and the cabins
and the carpet in the doorway
is a pathway built of summer

You can hear the fingers knocking
slipping sea into the canyon
you can feel the moon regretful
drawing ridges on the pillow

They are wearing thin the blanket
lost the warmth in new of winter
gone is the open skin sigh
in the softly floating midnight

and you can hear the naked trees
release the moan of morning
you can feel the sky exhale
like a filling open vessel

and the cuddle is all curled up
not long or delicious slowly
it is under blanket fast-wrap
in the frozen sheets of evening

you can see the frost on windows
you can hear the teeth of singing
you can feel the arms of winter
as your slumber groans and mumbles

and you want to travel sideways
when you see the world turn crystal
then new magic takes a window
and fills it full of softness

and you know the perfect blessing
in a sudden turn of insight
is the music from the corner
of going home

[This message has been edited by Martie (12-23-2002 10:37 AM).]

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1 posted 2002-12-23 09:53 AM


"and you want to travel sideways
when you see the world turn crystal
then new magic takes a window
and fills it full of softness

and you know the perfect blessing
in a sudden turn of insight
is the music from the corner
of going home"

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Amazing Martie girl...
As I sit here with misty eyes...remembering.
Thank you for this keeper.
~Hugs and a Merry Christmas to you and yours~

~ Season's Greetings to my 'family' at Passions ~

Seymour Tabin
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2 posted 2002-12-23 10:01 AM


Martie
Thank you for this poetic CHRISTMAS GIFT.

VAS
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3 posted 2002-12-23 10:53 AM


lovely, lovely, I tell you, the way you turn phrases is phenomenal!

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

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4 posted 2002-12-23 11:08 AM



Ok, let me pull this apart,
to see which line is best...
Oh my gosh...it's like taffy,
and I'm being pulled in...

help me....

LOL...

Martie!  I've been 'esqued again!

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5 posted 2002-12-23 11:51 AM


Multi layered write. Winter could be the ultimate extent of life and home the promised reward. This was not a threatening winter but one observed in clever verse.
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6 posted 2002-12-23 11:57 AM


like this....and agree with RS.. many layers


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7 posted 2002-12-23 12:23 PM


The last line was brilliant.
A wonderful read Martie.
Merry Christmas. ThisDiamond

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8 posted 2002-12-23 01:01 PM


always love the way you write....

Merry Christmas Martie

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9 posted 2002-12-23 03:51 PM


Martie - words flow from you to the inner accesses of my mind, soul and heart and write magic there and I am lost in the images and layers you wonderfully weave - just lovely Martie - Happy Solstice story time - Paul
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10 posted 2002-12-23 04:37 PM


This is remarkable, Martie.   *hugs* sweetie

The stars will shine when I am gone,
the earth will turn on as before,
the gulls, still race along the shore,
the morning star, still kiss the dawn

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11 posted 2002-12-23 04:54 PM




(smiles) Oh Martie, this is sooooooooo beautiful, sweet friend, God Bless You, I wish you and your family a warm and cozy holidays through the winter filled with love, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Martie, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

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12 posted 2002-12-23 06:49 PM


Martie,
Such stunning imagery do you weave within your spoken thoughts. Thank you for this my friend, much joy to you and yours.
Doc

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13 posted 2002-12-23 07:27 PM




Martie,

Yes, you have a beautiful poetic mind and how blessed we are having you share it with us.

I especially liked the last four lines.

Hugs, Pat

  

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14 posted 2002-12-23 07:39 PM


Martie - this is simply beautiful. I seem to repeat myself when signing your poems, but they are always just that - beautiful. hugs to you, Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....
                  
                       -Emily Dickinson

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15 posted 2002-12-24 03:51 PM


Absolutely beautiful!!!!!! Need I say more?
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16 posted 2003-12-30 07:55 PM


You have just proven to me, by going from here to there ( /pip/Forum83/HTML/001872.html ) that thoughts can be both timeless and seamless across time.

Thank you.

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17 posted 2003-12-31 08:36 AM


You can hear the fingers knocking
slipping sea into the canyon
you can feel the moon regretful
drawing ridges on the pillow

They are wearing thin the blanket
lost the warmth in new of winter
gone is the open skin sigh
in the softly floating midnight
===================================

I am grateful that this came back up, as I missed it the first time around..and that was indeed my loss....
as always what you do with imagery and personifi leaves me smiling and shaking me mothy head at your talent.
Now I am delightly off to the next installment of this.

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18 posted 2003-12-31 11:18 PM


It's a matter of understanding....

Understanding the beauty that is already there, the possibilities that are always present, and the continuity that binds them together....

It's also a matter of being Martie.

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19 posted 2004-03-04 12:55 PM


Magical.
Love, Margherita

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20 posted 2004-03-04 01:15 PM


Sis~
Anxiously I move on to the next one that I missed during the holiday season ... thank you for providing the links~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

noles1@totcon.com

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21 posted 2004-03-04 03:09 PM


Oh God, how did I miss this!

It's beautiful Martie, every single word every single line.

Going to read parts 2 and 3 now

you

M

Beauty of the world which is soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter and one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
(by Virginia Woolf)

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22 posted 2004-06-25 03:47 PM


Wonderful to see this lovely again!!!
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23 posted 2004-06-29 09:28 AM


I can only add my "Encore" to the plaudits of those above me.  Beautifully done.  KJ

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

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24 posted 2007-10-28 11:28 AM


i love winter, that is my season lol


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