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Martie

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0 posted 2004-10-28 12:13 PM

The Innocence of Motion

He was fast on skates, turning like the wind
and knocking down the shyly paperback book I held;
he found my eyes anyway, told me something
with his cool that made me think of bad weather.

Somewhere I must have known
that the treacherous path he walked held the seed,
for I saw the photo
of the way his child would take the beauty from him
and claim it with the eyes of a beloved animal
and the skin of autumn leaking into the trees.

I was only a vessel afterall.
He was fast forward, not gradual as was my want,
but hard of mouth as he listened to me sing my hymn;
in the choir of my heart I watched the chill
and pretended it was not a virus I could catch,
certainly not one that would bed me to cold
or so quickly bring life into my changing.

A stone is thrown into the pool
and becomes something more.
That small seed of his nonchalance
became a liquid web, like music shaped by reflection,
the innocence of motion fell up not down

and became Michelle.
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In loving memory of Michelle on her birthday, with gratitude to her father, wherever he is, and forgiveness.

[This message has been edited by Martie (10-28-2004 12:59 AM).]

James_A_Fraser
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1 posted 2004-10-28 12:43 PM

More than beautiful.... surpassingly lovely, and a haunting view of then through the eyes of now.

~~J

passing shadows
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2 posted 2004-10-28 12:50 PM

Dark Angel
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3 posted 2004-10-28 05:31 AM

You leave me speechless Ms Martie

amazing you are.

it's a

Mxx

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

~ani difranco~

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

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4 posted 2004-10-28 06:46 AM

Martie dear lady, hugs...and many good thoughts sent your way...wise woman you are...my oh my how you teach.

Thank you for sharing a God given talent.
Opening up many doors of light to others.

Your words speak a kindness in your heart.

Cpat Hair

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5 posted 2004-10-28 07:05 AM

hugs my friend...

babygirlwlove
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6 posted 2004-10-28 07:54 AM

touching...

love&light,
**babygirL**

**Intoxicant to the SouL**

Janet Marie
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7 posted 2004-10-28 08:01 AM

A stone is thrown into the pool
and becomes something more.
That small seed of his nonchalance
became a liquid web, like music shaped by reflection,
the innocence of motion fell up not down

and became Michelle.
====================================

beautiful sweetie....both of you...
and of that dedication-
the mountain is smiling.
heart-hugs Martie-girl

suthern

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8 posted 2004-10-28 08:20 AM

The poem mesmerized and touched... the dedication brought the tears.

So very beautiful... both the poem... and the mother's love that never dims.

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

9 posted 2004-10-28 08:23 AM

A stone is thrown into the pool
and becomes something more.
That small seed of his nonchalance
became a liquid web, like music shaped by reflection,
the innocence of motion fell up not down

and became Michelle.

~*~

Happy Birthday, Michelle.
Warm hugs to your mother...

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

10 posted 2004-10-28 11:15 AM

Martie...

vandana

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11 posted 2004-10-28 11:17 AM

nice read

icebox
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in the shadows

12 posted 2004-10-28 02:13 PM

"A stone is thrown into the pool
and becomes something more. "

*smile*

Mysteria

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13 posted 2004-10-28 02:16 PM

he found my eyes anyway, told me something
with his cool that made me think of bad weather

Wow that reminded me of my own pending bad weather once.

Martie, your unending love for her is a gift to us all, as this was absolutely beautiful. Forgiveness also is something we must do eventually if only for ourselves isn't it?

Susan
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walking the surreal

14 posted 2004-10-28 02:49 PM

I love the expression of this and the joy of making good out of pain -

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Marge Tindal

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15 posted 2004-10-28 08:47 PM

MartieSis~
This is soooooooooooo elegantly beautiful~

Your memories of Michelle are as fresh as the day the seed was planted ... and as warmly wonderful as the harvest~

How lovely you~
*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

Magnus

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16 posted 2004-10-28 09:07 PM

I guess that when I can read your words and
see what you have painted....then I have
accomplished a great feat.  You paint such
magical images,  and the music flows over
the reader as your harp strums a melody
that one never forgets.  Always keep her in
your heart...and forgiveness is a blessing
that will be a gift for all time.

wranx
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Moved from a shack to a barn

17 posted 2004-10-28 09:33 PM

Hugs and admiration...

You write beauty.

kayjay
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18 posted 2004-10-29 11:35 AM

Your love and reverence for this lost child keeps her alive to you...and to us as well. This is beautiful, Martie. Ken

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

mysticpoe
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19 posted 2004-10-29 11:50 AM

Imagery, originality, flow and reader hold on for magic here. Just a great write. You penned this perfectly!!

wayne

If nothing is something
then everything is
our thoughts and feelings
and all that exists.

Goodknight
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20 posted 2004-10-29 05:15 PM

I am in awe of how you write and what you say...whateve I say pales when compared to the awesomeness of your writing - Paul

Honeybunch
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21 posted 2004-10-29 05:23 PM

Martie - There's nothing I can say that hasn't been said already except perhaps how lucky you are to have been the one chosen to remember.

GG
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Lost in thought

22 posted 2004-10-29 07:18 PM

I don't even know what to say...

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

dgvarner
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High Springs, Florida

23 posted 2005-01-17 02:05 PM

much enjoyed reading this one..neat write...

hugs, g

"Everybody just wants to get high...sit and watch a perfect world go by..." (T.McGraw)

ice
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24 posted 2005-01-17 05:45 PM

Knocked senseless by the impact of these words, I am unable to speak any but one...
Beautiful! Grasping for another I come up with...Passion!......resting a while, another
Applause!
_________ice/ford
><>

*Alli4000*

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The World of Poetry

25 posted 2005-01-17 07:33 PM

*speechless*

~Alli~

Happy 2005!

Aenimal
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the ass-end of space

26 posted 2005-01-17 08:40 PM

speechless...hug

passing shadows
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displaced

27 posted 2005-01-17 10:07 PM

oh...

speechless

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