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Making Paper |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Making Paper I am making paper hear the sound it makes like an old cigar box closing where I keep something special of a gown or a photo of the time before now lace torn and fabric yellow that is how it feels Making paper from words making words from poems that dwell folded with the clover now crisp and fine curled hair cut below the rubber band with dull scissors these things hold me dear and take exact change from my supply every time I am making paper click when I close my eyes in the dark of some midnights I hear the life of my fingers leavened now and mapping the roads I’ve taken I see the graceful slant of wrist the skin like homemade bread yes it pulls me to the words again and making paper from the poems in my head I think one time before I’m done I will make just the right one [This message has been edited by Martie (08-18-2003 07:25 PM).] |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Martie...Your poems are always the 'right kind.'  Beautiful piece of work this is...you are such a talented lady! ~Summertime Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~ ~The breeze that kissed you on the face, |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Little girl, you make the paper beg for your ink...and then you bend it into a memory. I say, yet, and again... start the gathering sounds... because I know you know it would all disappear, and then...  , then...you could do it again...  |
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Goodknight Member Elite
since 2002-06-15
Posts 2386Ohio, USA |
the paper you make is so amazing and so deep and so wonderful - I love them all - keep on making paper Martie - you are something!!! Paul |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
MartieSis~ This is pure gold~ Delicately dipped in the Martiesque of you~ Beautiful dearest sister of my heart~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Making paper.....who but you would image it in this way, and yet what more appropriate image is there? And the subtlety -- "something special of a gown," and we know what gown, see it for ourselves... and a photo of "the time before" lets us see the time before, remake the story with no need to be told...and yes, that is how it feels, when you tie it together and bring it into the present of your own emotion.... ....and so it goes, each of these little keepsakes becoming personal to us as you bring us along with you, follow through the seamless transition into words of your craft about your craft, as it ties in to all these things for you... Only you, Martie. Only you can do this. You're amazing. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
You also are making me smile (a simple non-polluting by-product). *smile* |
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vlraynes Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-25
Posts 8229Somewhere... out there... |
"I am making paper hear the sound it makes like an old cigar box closing where I keep something special of a gown or a photo of the time before now lace torn and fabric yellow that is how it feels" Martie...how you come up with these, I will never fully comprehend. I'd love to spend a day in your head...even an hour would be the treat of a lifetime. You and this are beautiful... "My friends are my estate." |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
yes it pulls me to the words again and making paper from the poems in my head I think one time before I’m done I will make just the right one One time? *S* Lady... you do it EVERY time. *S* I stare at an ever-filling garbage can and just envy. *S* |
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Robert Frazier Senior Member
since 2003-02-06
Posts 1014 |
"yes it pulls me to the words again" ...and you have a magical way with them! |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
nope Sis, A poet never pens just the right one... but then again of course "there's you..." and no one has come so close. (my John Wayne voice) "Now don't you go and get discouraged 'lil darlin', you just keep on tryin'... and I'll make sure these folks see ya, cause I'm here to put you on top." PS. Prayers to you and Taylor Love, RJ and dale |
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