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Janet Marie
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0 posted 2003-02-21 08:01 AM




Forever September


How can it be that fall is
settling all around me?
I am not ready for the rusting
and rustling of seasons in change.

How can there be frost when
my face is still tanned?

I still feel summer's steamy glow and
beach breezes blowing through my hair.
I can still hear the waves crashing to
the shore, still recall the awe of endless
horizons illuminated in constant color.


For all it's brilliance, there are no hues
of ocean blue on fall's palette ...



The crackling crunch of dried leaves
can't content me the way walking barefoot
in the tide with you by my side did.

Try as they might, the musk and smoky smells
of this season are simply no match for the
dusky scent of wet sand and surf.

Winter's skies of pewter promise silver flaked snowfalls,
still that cant compete with the anticipation I felt
waking to shorelines saturated in sunrise.

No, I did not notice the days slipping away,
I missed the calendar pages falling into Fall.
I was distracted by sunset's solstice surrender to
mirrored moonrises of September's splendor.

My apologies to fall's foliage of ambered orange.
Autumn's auburn arrival comes in on crimson caress,
still, I'm not impressed for I'm held here under duress.

You see, I left so much of me there in the sand
where you wrote my name and held out your hand.

Winter will happen without me this year ...
I'm no longer here ... in spirit I still linger on the pier.
It was always meant to be ... the best of me ... stay with the sea ...

sand swept ...
                         tide taken ...
                                                summer sequestered ...
                                                                                        fall forsaken.


        
    
September solstice pink moonrise
VA Beach
      
No one has ever shown me how to see the world the way I see it now ...
and I never saw blue like that before.

~Tom Kimmel~.


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1 posted 2003-02-21 08:15 AM


OH YES!!!!!

This great work has to be in... most definitely...

Regards to you brilliant Janet,
Sudhir

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2 posted 2003-02-21 08:27 AM


Winter will happen without me this year ...
I'm no longer here ... in spirit I still linger on the pier.
It was always meant to be ... the best of me ... stay with the sea ...

sand swept ...
                         tide taken ...
                                                summer sequestered ...
                                                                                        fall forsaken.

you know.... yeah you know.....


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3 posted 2003-02-21 08:36 AM


"Winter will happen without me this year ...
I'm no longer here ... in spirit I still linger on the pier.
It was always meant to be ... the best of me ... stay with the sea ...

sand swept ...
                         tide taken ...
                                                summer sequestered ...
                                                                                        fall forsaken."


Oh Yes..JM...for sure...has to be in the book!
~Hugs~

~ Trace my body with your words..
And in doing so, you touch my heart. ~

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4 posted 2003-02-21 08:39 AM


Ahhh....VERY NICE JANET!!!!

Bridgette

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Have you ever seen the Sun Smile?

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(smiles) Oh Janet, this is gorgeous, sweet friend, let the summer wind lift you and let the colors of autumn dapple you so the warmth will always fulfill you as you weather September with youthful pride! (big hugggsssssss) This is narvelous, sweet friend, yay, you have my vote, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Janet, 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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7 posted 2003-02-21 09:54 AM


Janet Marie...Big hugs and a vote for this beauty!
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8 posted 2003-02-21 10:49 AM


Jams...I remember the first time I read this.  It was a good summer, huh?  Sighing with ya......
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9 posted 2003-02-21 11:47 AM


JM,
Beauty is as beauty sees.

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10 posted 2003-02-21 12:37 PM


Hi, Janet. I like this one.  Time is like an escalater that never stops and we can't get off.
I have a dumb question? Are you also "Sea?"
Jaime

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11 posted 2003-02-21 12:40 PM


JM,
Just me. But I'm wishing this had been your first submission. And I sure hope it makes the book. I've always loved this. It's in my collection.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

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12 posted 2003-02-21 12:40 PM


You're as ocean-obsessed as I am. For that alone, you should be in this book, Janet.
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13 posted 2003-02-21 01:10 PM


You see, I left so much of me there in the sand
where you wrote my name and held out your hand.

I've been to VA Beach and taken those walks; they left me sweet memories.  This is a lovely write.  Ken

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

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14 posted 2003-02-21 02:18 PM



There is such a HUGE smile on my face right now.
Hugs to you, my mothy friend.  


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

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"Try as they might, the musk and smoky smells
of this season are simply no match for the
dusky scent of wet sand and surf."

yes...definate "mothy must have" for this book...

...and Jaime, no we are not the same person, I can only wish to write this beautifully

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16 posted 2003-02-21 03:14 PM


Winter will happen without me this year ...
I'm no longer here ... in spirit I still linger on the pier.
It was always meant to be ... the best of me ... stay with the sea ...


Love the way you ending this beautiful poem.

Voting.

Maree


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17 posted 2003-02-21 03:19 PM


Since this just gets better and better with repeated readings, it's perfect for the book. *S*
Janet Marie
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18 posted 2003-02-22 12:12 PM


Thank you all for your support and generous responses. Like my other submission, this one is of my newer work and in theme with the things discovered on my first time of ever seeing the ocean.
A promise kept, a woman changed, a muse inspired in all that was found in the sharing of blue.
(Thank you MC)
Thank you again,poetry land
jm




For all it's brilliance, there are no hues
of ocean blue on fall's palette ...


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19 posted 2003-02-22 01:00 AM


Hey lovely...I'm late again...

grin?

forgive me..sigh...(I am cooking for an army over here...mardi gras yayayayaya)

But both of your poems reflect the quiet passion of your mind..(said nothing about the physical, girlie girl...*wink* )

Sweetly honest, and the intensity of self analysis here is tempered by your spirit.

Love ya lady...can't wait to see this one reflected...

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20 posted 2003-02-22 01:02 AM


geez...had to come back to make sure that took...this one didn't bump.

Y'think they think we really ARE the same person?

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21 posted 2003-02-22 01:36 AM


It did it again!!!

Or more precisely? It DIDN'T do it again!!!

Dunno why, but I'm obsessed with the bump of this now...grin...

one more time...

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22 posted 2003-02-22 01:39 AM


GRRRR....

*expletive*



sheesh.

sigh...

I could understand it if indiscriminate bumping were a habit of mine...

OH...HEY!!! I SWEAR! I'm retired now!





I'll go find something else to do I guess...grin.

Janet Marie
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23 posted 2003-02-22 06:41 AM


thanks me twin...*smiling at your tenacity*
I read in a bug swatter thread of this happening before...it happends when I reply to you and Martie too..and we are all on AOL,it was happeing in the teen forum with all the gang from Canada too, something them all being on same servers, and the software "no bump" recognizing it ....

So...even Artemus knows were twins LOL
thanks baby.

oouuu eeee oouu ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang ...
oouuu eeee oouu ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

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For those of us who AREN'T AOL...

LOL...

da-bump.

BTW...that's a good lookin' first pic ya got there, girlie-girl...seems to me that you ought to be doing your OWN book with your OWN pics, as you sure know how to pic 'em [ouch!  bad pun! me sorry!]

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25 posted 2003-02-22 08:23 AM


Another beautiful poem, Janet Marie! You have my vote!

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –Robert Louis Stevenson

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26 posted 2003-02-22 08:38 AM


Just beautiful JM ... wonderful imagery.

Best wishes and hgus,
/Kit

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27 posted 2003-02-22 09:10 AM



Janet Marie,

There are so 'many' fabulous lines in this, without quoting them all, this is one of my favorites:

"Autumn's auburn arrival comes in on crimson caress"

Beautiful poetry and sentiment. Love it!

Hugs, Pat

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        "Desiderata"

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28 posted 2003-02-22 01:35 PM


This is poetry in motion. Breath-taking in its splendor---poetically and pictorally.
The beauty of it all has near moved me to tears...truly.

~ May your life flow gently with the ebb and
flow of the tides and the seasons...

Warm hugs,
Linda

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29 posted 2003-02-22 01:38 PM


Beautiful !! It has my vote. Chris

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that perches in the soul....
                  
                       -Emily Dickinson

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30 posted 2003-02-22 01:39 PM


This is SO beautiful!

~Every girl has a dream within.

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31 posted 2003-02-22 07:16 PM


Janet, worderful write for the book.
Never leave that beach.

Parker

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32 posted 2003-02-22 07:37 PM


lovely words, jm
I guess some of us are lucky to live closer to the Atlantic Ocean.
*s
M

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33 posted 2003-02-23 09:14 AM


thank you everyone for your lovely responses and support of my work, I appreciate it so much.
thank again to all who stopped in
jm

oouuu eeee oouu ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang ...
oouuu eeee oouu ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
;)

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34 posted 2003-02-23 02:34 PM


Lord love a duck how on earth did this get by me, must need new glasses again.  So where is VA is that Virginia?  Nah, there is no ocean there is there?  LOL, can you tell I failed geography?  I have an ocean and I insist you see it, you hear me, I insist you come here and see it!  This year too.  Now I am off to the voting booth.

               
~* Carpe' Diem *~  




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35 posted 2003-02-23 03:14 PM


A beautiful post.  Joyce
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36 posted 2003-02-24 12:13 PM


Thank you to all for your replies and votes,
your support of my work is greatly appreciated.




Try as they might, the musk and smoky smells
of this season are simply no match for the
dusky scent of wet sand and surf.



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37 posted 2003-02-24 12:25 PM


Janet Marie:  This provides wonderful atmosphere and emotions.  I love it! Of course, I'm voting for it too.

Betty Lou Hebert

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38 posted 2003-02-24 07:52 AM


This is indeed a "must read".. It has to be included... gotta be...
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39 posted 2003-02-24 08:37 AM


Janet, this is
beautiful! *s

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listen more closely.
~Dorene

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40 posted 2003-02-24 09:37 AM


This is beautiful, Janet.  There is so much stated in this poem about where your heart lies.
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41 posted 2003-02-24 08:11 PM


Doesn't appear you need it butterfly lover--but another vote for this beauty must be cast.

J

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42 posted 2003-02-24 08:29 PM


No reason to list my favorite lines...I'd have to reprint the entire poem! You have talent in spades, Mizzou mama....my spam is YOUR spam...any day!
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43 posted 2003-02-24 08:54 PM


The sand, the surf, the salty air, and those special memories of those special people...there's nothing like it on earth. You've captured it perfectly, Janet. Casting my vote!
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44 posted 2003-02-25 12:16 PM


thank you everyone for coming by...I think this one is gonna need all the votes I can get as I believe it may require 2 pages so I appreciate the support so much.

mothy hugs and love to poetry land

Where the touch of lovers end and the soul of friends begin,
there's a need to be separate and a need to be one ...
it's struggle neither wins.


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45 posted 2003-02-26 08:05 AM


Well ya already know I love this one. And I think there's still a few votes out there for this one too Janet , take care!

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on... ~ Jackson Browne

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46 posted 2003-02-26 11:03 AM


You certainly know how to pick 'em, JM.  This is one of your best, and probably the one of yours that lingered in my mind the longest after having read it.  This is just incredible writing, your technique and style are vibrant here... Reflections couldn't do without this in its pages.

Oh and before I forget... you gotta teach me emotional writing sometime, 'cause mine still sounds like it's written by a machine...

Talk to you later, groovy girl.

Parasite

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47 posted 2003-02-26 11:05 AM


*drools* pretty pictures..lol sorry..breathtakingly gorgeous and fab words and all! *checks that lil box*

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48 posted 2003-02-26 04:58 PM


Another superb write JM.
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49 posted 2003-02-27 12:04 PM


thank you all for your kind words and support..I appreciate it much.

Where the touch of lovers end and the soul of friends begin,
there's a need to be separate and a need to be one ...
it's struggle neither wins.


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enjoyed
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Another beautiful poem!
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52 posted 2003-03-15 04:24 PM


Janet, you're making me rethink my favorite season!  However, Love will always take precedence over former tastes and dictate a special place and time...  especially when it is left behind...  Your descriptions and melancholy feel wins my vote.

-MVS

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53 posted 2003-03-15 04:27 PM


Janet Marie, I don't know how I missed this beautiful poem, but I can't find my reply.I sure did think that I replied to it. Oh, well, I'll just vote again.....LOL

"Love makes the world go around"
~with love and hugs from Ethel__GG~  
                  

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54 posted 2003-03-16 01:03 AM


Vandana...Sharon...Mark and Ethel,
thank you for these kind replies...
I appreciate your support very much.
TY

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55 posted 2003-03-16 03:23 PM


I dont know how I missed this....shame on me...what a beautiful picture hon....and written as only you can....


Lauren~

Here I am
Running after dreams ~
I made it through another lonely night
Thinking of you
I know I should be strong
I just can’t say ~goodbye~(LR)

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56 posted 2003-03-16 09:54 PM


This is so wistful and beautiful...I felt the longing as I read this. Nice write Janet. I'd love to see it in the book.

Elizabeth

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57 posted 2003-03-16 10:16 PM


This touched my heart.....it reminds me of Septembers past!!!!  Thank You for sharing this....I can't believe I missed this before!!!!!

Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again.  To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Andre Brink


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58 posted 2003-03-16 10:19 PM


Oops I guess I did read this once before....I was one of the first ones too!!!!Ron I voted twice for this.....
UH OH!!!!

Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again.  To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Andre Brink


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59 posted 2003-03-16 10:53 PM


Bridget, you can edit your most recent vote for it. That one probably hasn't been tabulated yet so get it quick and poof! no harm done. (At least I think that's how it works....I did the same thing once. LOL)

Liz

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got...
--Sheryl Crow

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60 posted 2003-03-17 02:00 AM


Hey Jan-gator long time no read ... and I see you haven't lost your touch ... you are one heck of a poet and this deserves to be in the book ... if it don't make it in i won't buy the book

Best Wishes,
Jeff-Gator

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61 posted 2003-03-17 12:29 PM


Wonderful imagery along with eloquent poetry! Definately gets a vote from me..and a sigh.
Tammy

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62 posted 2003-03-18 01:24 PM


Thanks to ALL for these wonderful replies and your support for the book submit.
I'm playing catch up here...sorry I took so long to come back and say thank you...trying to find all the ones that were lost in the crash and revote as well as read the new submits. thanks guys and good luck.

  

If I am right ... if I can be ...
constant and faithful ... you'll find me

TC

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63 posted 2003-03-20 08:30 PM


Wow,Janet! I think it is safe to say that you really like the sea (smile).You should see the incredible turquoise sea of the Caribbean!Ever since my first time there,turquoise and teal are my favorite colours.Very well written.

Peace,Geoffrey

If a man has not discovered something he is willing to die for,his life is not worth living.

Martin Luther King,Jr. Detroit,1963

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64 posted 2005-06-15 01:47 AM


I remember the first time I read this, I knew that you had to see my ocean one day, and you will, trust me, you will!

I am just so thankful for these archives, and I do read your work often, but today because it is a special day, I resurface my favorites - hope you don't mind.

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