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Dear Michelle
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Dear Michelle |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Dear Michelle The flowering peach is all a bud even though its not the first or second tree, but the third and better for that number, see, it was given (like the other two) because of love this time from a man you never knew unless you see into him, through me. He is far different then those girls and boys of the second grade….but love is love and a gesture of tree is to be glad of. And this from the place where you are now all around the room and a part of me so far so far from the back door and the scrape of crayons on manilla paper that always made me cringe I feel you now like almost spring. But of course it would bloom, It’s February, and in the clock of things, it’s time to bring this touch of you to mind this month is due even on a Thursday or any other day is true What do you think I should do? I am so unglued and out of sorts and you are not a child any more of course. Although it’s hard for me to think of you in other ways I feel your presence with me most days but especially now I long to see your face. This place is still your home, some see you here as sure as that piano, you play the corners of the room; but it is the little girl that hides that way right now I need the woman. The ending of this letter stays With love always, Your mother -------- in loving memory of Michelle [This message has been edited by Martie (02-17-2005 04:45 PM).] |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes... yes yes yes yes yes....  |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
but love is love and a gesture of tree is to be glad of. Your poems for Michelle just keep getting more and more beautiful... and this one especially... for the ache isn't just for what she was... but what could have been. |
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the_loner_23 Member Ascendant
since 2002-06-08
Posts 5479Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
Very beautiful write. Cold hands means a warm heart |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
Martie ~ Suthern took the words right out of my mouth. Ditto to what she so aptly and deservedly wrote about your loving poem about Michelle. Love & Angel Light, Linda |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
And this from the place where you are now all around the room and a part of me so far so far from the back door and the scrape of crayons on manilla paper that always made me cringe I feel you now like almost spring. But of course it would bloom, It’s February, and in the clock of things, it’s time to bring this touch of you to mind this month is due even on a Thursday or any other day is true ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ your words say it all...far more lovely than anything I might.  |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
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Goodknight Member Elite
since 2002-06-15
Posts 2386Ohio, USA |
Yep Martie - she is there and I have felt her presence there - you tell her to us so well many of us know her - Paul |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Hugging you.... |
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James_A_Fraser Senior Member
since 2003-09-03
Posts 972Out Making Anticlines |
You dear lady..... in every woman there is the girl she was, as in every girl there lives the woman she will be. It's a blessing to see one in the other, as much a blessing as it is to hear an age-softened piano played by a loving mother....and feel her long-departed daughter enter the room to listen. Neither the girl within the woman nor the spirit who listens while her mother plays, can be seen with eyes....to be in the presence of both and to know them both, is sheer blessing. Such a blessing did come for me once, on a long-ago but very treasured Wednesday afternoon. This poem marks a step into the future for you, Martie...a small, confident step in the direction you will go. Thank you for sharing it with all of us. |
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saved_by_grace Member
since 2005-01-08
Posts 332In the arms of God... |
Amazing write, Martie!!  Although it has been some years since your daughter departed from this earth to join the heavenly realm...I am praying you through this month. She is looking down on your with laughter and big smiles...waiting for your journey Home! I bet she can hardly wait to give you a big ole squeeze! Many hugs and prayers for you, Martie!! The miracle is you're here, |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
hugs |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
Hugs Martie: Amazing blooms here. TD |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Isn't it odd that we can not manage to age them Martie? I am beginning to think that the Mother in us must need that connection the way it was, not how it could be. Still I think the craving for what could be, grows over time too to create a need. Did that make sense? This was a beautiful letter. |
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kayjay Member Elite
since 2002-06-24
Posts 2015Oregon |
How grand it is that your goodness and light keeps shining on this child your bore and keep alive with such writings. Hugs Ken Through rubble and trouble and dark of night |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
being a michele,i had to open this gift that you brought into the world through your own dear michelle ***************************************** and a gesture of tree is to be glad of. yes, it always will be as long as a tree stands, the leaves will be born again |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
Marties, my words are inadequate to tell you how this touched me, so I'll just say thank you, dear soul, for sharing this tender look at your heart. .....jo |
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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597 |
Does sorrow mature? I think you show us how. e |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Thank you so much, my friends, for putting up with my Februaries each year, and for finding the beauty in a child you never met, except through my words. It makes me very proud, of her and of myself.  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
How could we not? A girl child is almost always like her mother in too many ways to name. One look at you and the beauty in her becomes obvious....one look at the verse you write of her, and the beauty of her spirit becomes just as clear. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> ______________Ratleader______________ |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
Beautiful Martie..you..her and this. "cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind" |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
perhaps she even stirs your words my friend, she whispers with your music. This was so elegant and most faithful...you do have the heart and mind of a grand mother...and this, Martie, was absolute magic...how precious and profound...huggle sent to you and yours, may you always and forever be within the arms of this powerful love.... |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
Very touching, very aware. |
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miscellanea Member Elite
since 2004-06-24
Posts 4060OH |
a very special write, Martie. I have no words adequate to express how this has touched me. cathy |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Your love is alive and radiates off the page... and then overflows so beautifully, Martie. |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
right now I need the woman. yes, yes, you sure do Martie. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
Far from 'putting up' with your February heartbeat, Martie...I have come to look forward to warmth, a depth of love for your child, as each February's portrait seems to release a deeper hue than the previous one. |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Martie, I have no words to express the depths that your poem touched me. So much love just leaps off the pages and enters into the readers heart. Only a loving Mother could write such love to a child. I know that she's proud of you, too. God bless you, dear, sweet Martie. Heart Hugs, Ethel |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
martie, You and I share much more than our sound alike names. These words have touched me, as has most of what you write. February is filled with love. thank you, marty |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
meant to save this.marty |
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NewEnglandlazurlu Member Rara Avis
since 2002-01-04
Posts 7470A Mountain Paradise |
Martie, such a beautiful and touching piece in memory of your beloved daughter. Sending you a hug dear poetess. Marti A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
OhSis~ She is always with us through your tender renders~ See ... yes, she is there and here and wherever your heart is~ Love you ... I do~  *Huglets* ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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Robert Frazier Senior Member
since 2003-02-06
Posts 1014 |
this moves, and deeply . . . thanks for sharing. Rf |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Martie, you and I share much more than like sounding name. Read this in the early morning hours at work, through teary eyes. Thank you for sharing and helping me to remember. marty |
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