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Martie

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0 posted 2004-12-16 05:14 PM

I am made of leaves
brittle and curled brown and gold
the wind    the wind    is my lover
he dances with me
he even says that I am as graceful as the tree

Love sees this way
even knowing the worst of the falling of time
spring gurgles   and takes the corner to ground with give
where the tree the branch the leaf still live

I fall beneath my own steps
hear my song on the path that I am building
the front of my house is made from my color
each tooth chipped as time walks along with a rake
as the wind whispers   “it does not matter      feel me I am warm
and my truth touches you and folds you
even holds you as the sun would a ripening flower.”

Today his hands are warm its true
he moves across me from the north
his destination is my spirit's spring
(last night his soft howl took me rumpled
and I dreamed his mouth was the sweetest nectar
of air just after a rain
I felt where he was hurt by slivered moon
and healed by stars that never parted   from June)

Enchantress
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Canada eh.

1 posted 2004-12-16 05:45 PM

"as the wind whispers “it does not matter feel me I am warm
and my truth touches you and folds you
even holds you as the sun would a ripening flower.”

Today his hands are warm its true
he moves across me from the north
his destination is my spirit's spring
(last night his soft howl took me rumpled
and I dreamed his mouth was the sweetest nectar
of air just after a rain
I felt where he was hurt by slivered moon
and healed by stars that never parted from June)"

Dear Martie..this is incredibly beautiful.
Your talent is outstanding and very unique.
May you and yours have a blessed holiday season.

Season's Greetings!

Ratleader

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2 posted 2004-12-16 06:42 PM

You are made of leaves, if leaves are made of crystal and spun glass....that's what your unique view of the world brings to everything you write. The dullest subject seems to bloom when you touch it....wind, you made this out of wind!

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littlewing
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since 2003-03-02

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New York

3 posted 2004-12-16 07:34 PM

Martie?

and may you always feel this warmth . . .

just beautiful!

Honeybunch
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2004-12-16 11:00 PM

Martie - the wind carries your soul across the miles like it does a fallen leaf. How beautiful and talented it is.

icebox
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in the shadows

5 posted 2004-12-16 11:06 PM

Beautiful!

Midnitesun

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Gaia

6 posted 2004-12-16 11:25 PM

Dang, I wish I could write like you Martie.
this is exquisite, and I could hear the rustling of autumn leaves as I read.

Gentle Spirit
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7 posted 2004-12-17 08:19 AM

you never cease to amaze me Martie...this is so crisp, so clean and so darn beautiful!

Sunshine

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8 posted 2004-12-17 08:31 AM

the wind the wind is my lover
he dances with me
he even says that I am as graceful as the tree

Love sees this way

~*~

You make us dance, poet...
from the sheer joy of seeing a new Martie post...

so that we might all experience the feeling
of being Martiesqued!

passing shadows
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displaced

9 posted 2004-12-17 09:07 AM

always inspiring, you

Fariegirl
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10 posted 2004-12-17 09:11 AM

this is wonderful

~*I shall not try to comfort you: what is the use,
Since comfort could lie only in what is not true?*~

SEA

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with you

11 posted 2004-12-17 09:24 AM

"Today his hands are warm its true
he moves across me from the north
his destination is my spirit's spring
(last night his soft howl took me rumpled
and I dreamed his mouth was the sweetest nectar
of air just after a rain"

LOVED this!!!

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

12 posted 2004-12-17 09:43 AM

I read this right after responding to my "pledge" and couldn't help comparing... I may write of leaves but could never be such... no grace for this gal! *S*

You write his touch so beautifully it's felt even in the stillness... lovely! *S*

Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

13 posted 2004-12-17 02:35 PM

Martie, Martie, Martie, WOW!

I wish I had written this, I wish I could write like you do....truly a beautiful piece.

it's a keeper

Maree

into this night i wonder, it's morning that i dread, another day of knowing of, the path i fear to tread.
~Sarah McLachlan~

Earth Angel
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Realms of Light

14 posted 2004-12-17 03:03 PM

~ "and my truth touches you and folds you
even holds you as the sun would a ripening flower.”

"and I dreamed his mouth was the sweetest nectar
of air just after a rain"

It is lines like these that keep me coming back to your poems. Your truth touches me.

Love & Light,
Linda

Dark Stranger
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since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

15 posted 2004-12-17 03:35 PM

the things you do with the wind
makes me want to be
at least part wind
and part sea

*Alli4000*

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The World of Poetry

16 posted 2004-12-17 08:26 PM

Agreed - beautiful write!

Happy Holidays!

Janet Marie
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17 posted 2004-12-17 09:06 PM

I am made of leaves
brittle and curled brown and gold
the wind    the wind    is my lover
he dances with me
he even says that I am as graceful as the tree

Love sees this way
even knowing the worst of the falling of time
spring gurgles   and takes the corner to ground with give
where the tree the branch the leaf still live

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
as the wind whispers   “it does not matter      feel me I am warm
and my truth touches you and folds you
even holds you as the sun would a ripening flower.”

Today his hands are warm its true
he moves across me from the north
his destination is my spirit's spring
(last night his soft howl took me rumpled
and I dreamed his mouth was the sweetest nectar
of air just after a rain
I felt where he was hurt by slivered moon
and healed by stars that never parted   from June)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OMG ....

IWIHWT!!!!!
oh yes.....

I felt where he was hurt by slivered moon
and healed by stars that never parted   from June)

IWIHWT!!!!

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

18 posted 2004-12-17 09:10 PM

Another "Martie Keeper" ... outstanding!
hugs, Chris

Don't forget my presents!!

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

19 posted 2004-12-17 09:33 PM

(last night his soft howl took me rumpled
and I dreamed his mouth was the sweetest nectar
of air just after a rain
I felt where he was hurt by slivered moon
and healed by stars that never parted from June)

I don't wish I could write like you anymore because there could absolutely never be another you, never so I don't wish, just enjoy. Reading you is like feeling wrapped in a cashmere blankie already pre-warmed, yes that is what it feels like to me.

Goodknight
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Posts 2386
Ohio, USA

20 posted 2004-12-18 06:09 PM

loved the images and emotion here Martie -you see and feel and say what many of us would never know if you weren't saying and seeing and feeling - Paul

ice
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since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

21 posted 2004-12-18 10:01 PM

Applause!
A very moving write..You know that I can feel the emotions of the leaves, and know they have ways of communication that not many people understand...you are one that does, and we readers are blessed...
Thank you for this poem, Martie, and while I am at it, thanks for all of your poems...I count them as blessings...

__________ice/ford
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serenity blaze
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22 posted 2004-12-18 10:31 PM

"he even says that I am as graceful as the tree"

Call me "druid".

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