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Martie

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0 posted 2004-10-25 08:36 PM

Just a Little Light

I was too young to be
so frazzled,
a baby slung across my hip,
this child that came to me
from the land of careless,
from the place where skin has magic.

Magic so easily planted a seed
that curled around my heart
and squeezed joy into all my places,
wonder of wonder this life
beget of nonchalance.

I thought I couldn’t
take care of so much urgency,

and so I searched for answers
from unlikely places,
and oh how I messed up,
seeing through my need,
falling into comfortable
like it would hold me.

How could I be big enough
or capture enough wisdom
to give depth to this infant
that twirled around my life
with questions that I couldn’t answer?

All around there were songs
that I didn’t hear
as I danced to quiet a baby’s cry,
I danced with monsters that would scream,
and sang to steady the ache,

and then one day
after the sky had melted
and rained all its bitter truth,
after the umbilical cord was stretched
and tied my whole life up with balloons,
I saw where peace was planted.

Of course it had been there all the time,
peace waits so patiently,
because it takes so long to see,
that bright bulb's hidden treasure,
just needs a little light.
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reposted and rewritten in memory of Michelle
during her birth month, October.

passing shadows
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displaced

1 posted 2004-10-25 08:37 PM

glad you brought this back

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

2 posted 2004-10-25 08:40 PM

~Sending heart hugs your way Martie~

~Autumn..the year's last, loveliest smile.~

serenity blaze
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3 posted 2004-10-25 08:41 PM

Oh my...

*touching the screen*

I have no words, but know that you astound me with your more than your gift for poetry.

Your personal beauty, grace, and strength is more than I could ever hope to achieve.

love you lady

"I thought I couldn’t
take care of so much urgency,"

you describe that perfectly.

icebox
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in the shadows

4 posted 2004-10-25 08:45 PM

"and so I searched for answers
from unlikely places,
and oh how I messed up,"

we perhaps share some lenses.

*smile*

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

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5 posted 2004-10-25 09:19 PM

Sending you a giant hug and forgive it if
it needs a hankie or two when it arrives.

Sunshine

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6 posted 2004-10-25 10:17 PM

Ah Sissie...your heartsounds sing songs
for the angels, but we are blessed with
your words, and the knowing of you to
have loved so much, that the love will
never, ever quit giving.

Did I thank you for the look see into
the albums? If not, the heartpound was
there for you to hear...I so enjoyed
seeing the times of you and your family...

we left so much unsaid, even the unspoken
words of "for next time..."

I, like serenity, often touch the screen...
but you knew that when we held hands.

Love you, Sissie...

kayjay
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Oregon

7 posted 2004-10-25 11:49 PM

This bright light you carry in your heart illuminates all of you, Martie. Beautifully written. Ken

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

Ratleader

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8 posted 2004-10-26 12:13 PM

It does happen, in rare and beautiful cases, that we know when our lives are being defined....but that is so rare we can say "never," and so beautiful we can say "impossible."

Far too often, we know....terribly know, that we have realized, just a moment too late to save the good. If we are lucky and have the fortitude, we can turn it to something beautiful again...as you have...though it takes the rest of life to do it.

This, and all of Sunshine's wise words here, come close to being an adequate response to this poem.

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Mysteria

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9 posted 2004-10-26 12:55 PM

Martie, by keeping her spirit alive in the sharing of your words of Michelle I have alsways felt it was really a gift from her. Through your writing I have learned to appreciate those close to us, and not be afraid to say and show it to them. I have learned to cherish each breathe and to exhale with a lightened heart. Above all else, you have both taught me to share it with those I love. Thank you Martie and Michelle.

Honeybunch
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10 posted 2004-10-26 03:06 AM

Martie - Beautifully penned as only you can do. How touching your words are.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

11 posted 2004-10-26 12:03 PM

Quietly absorbing the depths of this, the sheer beauty of the write, the heartbeat I hear in every line.

Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27

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Florida

12 posted 2004-10-26 12:19 PM

I think I will share this with my daughter.

lovely.

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Dark Angel
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13 posted 2004-10-26 04:38 PM

GREAT BIG HUGS Martie

and I am haunted
by my illicit exquisite dream
but I can't really wake up
so I just drift in between

~ani difranco~

suthern

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Louisiana

14 posted 2004-10-26 05:06 PM

I've been reading some of the challenge poems... and the only one I guessed right (before the disclosure *S*)... was a poet masked as you.... and not just because I know you're friends. *S*

Magic so easily planted a seed
that curled around my heart
and squeezed joy into all my places,

You make magic with your phrasing... and curl around our hearts with the every word... so that we never forget.

What a beautiful, beautiful gift of love this is. *S*

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

15 posted 2004-10-26 05:55 PM

Martie
Lovely and has your signature.

Janet Marie
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16 posted 2004-10-27 12:32 PM

and then one day
after the sky had melted
and rained all its bitter truth,
after the umbilical cord was stretched
and tied my whole life up with balloons,
I saw where peace was planted.

Of course it had been there all the time,
peace waits so patiently,
because it takes so long to see,
that bright bulb's hidden treasure,
just needs a little light.
===============================

both of you are a light...and enlightening.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine ...
I've been eating poetry.

Mark Strand

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Ohio, USA

17 posted 2004-10-29 05:14 PM

Martie - how wonderful you write - Paul

Margherita
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Eternity

18 posted 2004-10-30 10:03 AM

and then one day
after the sky had melted
and rained all its bitter truth,
after the umbilical cord was stretched
and tied my whole life up with balloons,
I saw where peace was planted.

I am in awe. Such intensely beautiful words, dear Martie!

Love and hugs. Margherita

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