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Martie
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0 posted 2006-10-11 04:30 PM



Stone’s Throw Rebel

Come down
to silent waiting water
reflection is a stone
skipped perfectly or is it

Quiet
I can hear
the songs where I have knelt
giving reverence to wings

Step back turn around who flew
harmony can come unglued

Hear the discord of rocks in plop
and straight down drop

I can turn away you see
and sigh some word
like destiny

To live hunched in everglade
when all the pretty treetops
touch the light
and night would seem that long and strong
to unfasten day

Standing above   erect with reverence
it matters not the perfect set
three times plus across the pool
reflects the age of handmade fool
a tool made from bone not heart
reflects no art

So

through empty space and waters quiver
to rebel all contrive a shiver

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1 posted 2006-10-11 04:37 PM


Standing above   erect with reverence
it matters not the perfect set
three times plus across the pool
reflects the age of handmade fool
a tool made from bone not heart
reflects no art
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Indeed Martie....the heart is what gives it substance.  Loved this one. Hugs.

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2 posted 2006-10-11 10:23 PM



I see an open reflection pool here,
glassy smooth and mirror perfect,
as perfect as mirrors can be...

if you stand over there, you will see a
hint of tree line standing...

but it you stand over there...
you will see angular spirits
holding out their arms
helping you
across the water....

this, is such a poem, Martie...

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" It matters not this distance now  " Excerpt, Yesterday's Love
~*~
KRJ

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3 posted 2006-10-11 10:56 PM


Thanks dear friends for your replies

What is important is not the perfect rock skipping, you see?  It's about appreciating, not changing what is.     

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4 posted 2006-10-11 11:23 PM


Hear the discord of rocks in plop
and straight down drop

I can turn away you see
and sigh some word
like destiny


feeling this deeply

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5 posted 2006-10-13 08:05 AM


Martie your words say so much and give birth to wonderful images - Paul
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6 posted 2006-10-13 09:59 PM




"reflection is a stone
skipped perfectly or is it"

you never fail to amaze me Martie
I love it...


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7 posted 2006-10-13 10:17 PM


"Quiet
I can hear
the songs where I have knelt
giving reverence to wings"

This is so graceful, Martie.  Love it.....jo

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8 posted 2006-10-14 10:23 AM


This whole song (and song without tune it is) shimmers with the light of life....I love it.

Perfect? No, what poem ever is? Beautiful? Oh yes.

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9 posted 2006-10-14 10:47 AM


"a tool made from bone not heart
reflects no art"

I wonderr..
if perhaps
this should be a mandatory quote to know to call oneself a true artist.
Lovely write.

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