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Martie

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0 posted 2003-09-01 11:17 AM

They are My Next Summer

It is September
and still the sky is open,
blue with guile,
hiding the knowledge of dark clouds.

It is September,
the month of my birth,
the song of my opening
screeches into the heat on the 22nd,
I feel the sweat of my mother
holding the fall of me under todays sun,
waiting.

Maybe that is why I love that last day of summer,
and the beginning of fall,
like a mother she whispers into the evening
with the cool fingers of the fan and open window.

I am still growing, I tell the old woman
who waits for me around the corner,
still working on incomplete.
Each fall my sunflowers lean across the garden path
and I hold the seeds like babies
in the palm of my hand.
They are my next summer.

[This message has been edited by Martie (09-01-2003 11:38 AM).]

Bill Charles
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highways, & byways, for now

1 posted 2003-09-01 11:26 AM

Martie - words written with the passion of you...

BC

QjQ
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since 2003-04-18

Posts 3756
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2 posted 2003-09-01 11:30 AM

such a wonderful write and memory's you have for a Sept Birthday Girl!!

[This message has been edited by QjQ (09-01-2003 11:34 AM).]

ice
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since 2003-05-17

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Pennsylvania

3 posted 2003-09-01 11:35 AM

You do this to me, over and over:
Every time I read your poems,
Emotions rise
From the visuals found in the words...

....ice....

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

4 posted 2003-09-01 01:46 PM

Martie
A special poem written in your special way.

littlewing
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since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

5 posted 2003-09-01 02:46 PM

Martie . . . God, you write beautifully

still working on incomplete.
Each fall my sunflowers lean across the garden path
and I hold the seeds like babies
in the palm of my hand.

keep planting . . .
xxoo

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

6 posted 2003-09-01 02:53 PM

Those seeds, and your optimism, will always keep the blue in the next summer...

hugging you for this.

Nightshade

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just out of reach

7 posted 2003-09-01 03:01 PM

Beautifully said Martie. Enjoyed. Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul ~
Emily Dickinson

Local Rebel
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since 1999-12-21

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Southern Abstentia

8 posted 2003-09-01 03:19 PM

mmmmmm

smells like autumn in here...

is that sweet potato pie?

nope -- just Martie cooking up a pome..

[This message has been edited by Local Rebel (09-01-2003 03:20 PM).]

Dark Angel
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9 posted 2003-09-01 04:39 PM

This is absolutely beautiful Martie...I love Autumn...but we're moving on into Spring.... yay.. can't wait for the summer.

hugs beautiful

Maree

fate is not just
whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

(Ani DiFranco)

wranx
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Moved from a shack to a barn

10 posted 2003-09-01 05:18 PM

Yet again, more beauty from Marties' pen...

Ed

froggy
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Michigan

11 posted 2003-09-01 07:36 PM

Very pretty Martie.
I really like that

:-)

Froggy

suthern

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12 posted 2003-09-01 08:58 PM

I am still growing, I tell the old woman
who waits for me around the corner,

And every growth spurt reveals still more loveliness. *S* I like this very much, Martie... what beautiful optimism. *S*

Paul Wilson

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13 posted 2003-09-01 10:42 PM

Martie...Very tender write. Enjoyed...Paul

"To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you"

angelblueyes
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Oklahoma

14 posted 2003-09-01 11:51 PM

Those seeds and your heart will bloom the most beautiful petals to such a wondrous flower

Crystal

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15 posted 2003-09-02 12:01 PM

In this gentle climate, I've found that if the weather's right and my timing's right, I can plant twice and get a second crop just at the end of the year... I wish that for you too -- flowers in November, a good thing all around!

I like the air of this poem, the connection to the past and your knowledge that the future will be there for you. Beautiful work.

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Goodknight
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16 posted 2003-09-02 08:08 PM

I will always cherish September knowing that it is the month that began the life of such a powerful gifted poet - Paul

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