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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Never mine I held you once, a small miracle attached and expelled from the most intimate part of me, but you were never mine. You dreamed beside a yellow cat, flailed your tiny arms beside a warm mouth of purrr, soft and unafraid each. You gave no cry for attention, small specks of dust and wee clenched fist held your interest, and the clamor of activity around absorbed your need. As you grew a map unfolded behind your green gaze that passed me and traveled away into distant dreams. There you listened and spoke with many voices before you learned your own. There time granted you grace to fill up the space your soul occupies. I watched as you accepted the miracle of moon and stars, made things happen with your hands, grasped truth, were angered by deception, knew love, accepted failure and discovered the strength of determination. I held you once, a small miracle attached and expelled from the most intimate part of me, but, you were never really mine. Still, wanting to touch some part of you I reached out to grasp your hand and through some trick of time and mind you had become a man. --------- a repost for my son, Ken, on his 34th birthday. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I tried to write for my mother on her yesterday birthday... but the words were nothing more than wisps of memory... In the recesses of our hearts, every child of any age yearns for a poem like this... Beautiful work, lady. *S* |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Ken'sMommy~ You are BEAUTIFUL ... and this touches the innermost parts of motherly love~ Ken~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! You don't need me to tell you, but I will anyhow  you've got one heck of a GREAT MOM~  *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left. - Sufi epigram <))>< Email noles1@totcon.com |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Martie, this is so touching and done in your very own style that makes it uniquely yours.... and I love your uniqueness!! The greatest beauty on earth, is |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Martie A delight to read. |
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muted
since 2004-01-15
Posts 2949Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving |
sent shivvers through me.... wonderful im keeping this  |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
A truly wonderful write for your son, dear Martie .... me too, I felt shivers ... Love, Margherita  |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
You are such a good Mom, I wonder if he knows how lucky he is. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Happy Birthday, Ken... may Sunshine fill your days... and the love of your mother fill your soul! |
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MGROVES
since 2004-02-01
Posts 3802california |
beautiful |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Maybe never truely yours but definitely in some part a reflection of you. A witness and many entries to your life's diary. I do so enjoy reading your words as they calm me in so many ways. That is one reason I so often choose to read you right before hitting the haystack in the stable. I am sure he will love this. Wanna adopt a cowboy?  |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
*smile* Martie What a beautiful mom you are . . . Goodness, they are only ours for a spell . . . |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Oh Martie, god this is beautiful, you've gone and made me cry. love you Maree xx p.s keeping this. and I am haunted |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Such a beautiful mother and person you are. What a gift of love this is. Happy Birthday Ken! Thank you for sharing this Martie. Hugs~ ~Autumn..the year's last, loveliest smile.~ |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
They are so precious as they grow, aren't they? Such memories that they leave for us and we bring back from time to time, letting ourselves become young again...and absorb that childhoon once more. Well done Martie, very well done. |
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Goodknight Member Elite
since 2002-06-15
Posts 2386Ohio, USA |
Martie - you paint such wonderful pictures with your poetry - I hope to meet Ken some day though I have met some of him here through your words - Paul |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
Martie, Our boys are days apart in age! Just a wonderful write. Thanks for sharing... 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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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
I just may have to steal this for wranx jr. It could not have been said better, Martie! |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Oh, Martie, this is simply lovely! A mother's love through your words brings tears to my eyes. |
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J.Samm Member
since 2004-01-12
Posts 415Iloilo City, Philippines |
truly marvelous! i wish my mom could write like that... |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Martie Your poems always swell emotions in me, this one is no exception....I am swelled once again thank you for the inflation..... "Where are you going my little one..little one Where are you going my baby..my own Turn around and you're six Turn around and you're eight Turn around and you're a young lad going out of the gate" From a lullaby, can't remember who wrote it.. ---------ice ><> |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
they are, never really ours... Magnificent write Lady....tremendously filled with truth and emotion...encouragement to let them succeed. Bravo!!!! |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
The gentle love in this.....every child should have it, and so few do. It's good to see this side of you, flower girl....I like it very much. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
I missed this before... glad I went hunting.. A very touching, beautiful tribute to your son. "cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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choshi Senior Member
since 2004-01-01
Posts 1184New York |
Beautiful Martie....Oh yes....~P |
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kayjay Member Elite
since 2002-06-24
Posts 2015Oregon |
Mothers and sons form a special bond which never seems to break Mine has gone; I miss her still, I have these thoughts so bleak. Thanks for stirring these memories of my mom, Martie. Ken Through rubble and trouble and dark of night |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
as always....beautiful |
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