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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

0 posted 2008-09-22 12:17 PM

Hello friends at Pip...I am writing this on Western time and today is the day before my birthday, and the day that I joined Pip back in 1999. I wanted to let you know how much you are all still in my heart, even though my muse has been missing for some time. When she comes back I'll post what she has to say.

Thoughts on the Day Before my Birthday

I feel the calling of change,
it rises like liquid under pressure,
filling with lessons coming back again,
with a story that is so familiar
I even think I know how it will end.

Grow me a place, I tell my core,
that is bigger please, so I can see
each life of me like a fence along the road,
hammered, painted, and left to weather all alone.

Let me count the gates I opened, those I closed,
and the places where I left
my shoes between the slats,
while jumping into places too far to go.

I hear the silence because it is so loud,
telling me I'm making the climb up hill,
with echoes from my own voice through time
where I wonder like a child,
if on the other side of every mountain
there is another place to ride.

Knowing all the while that
I'll come around again
and see my footprints here the same
moving toward the circle's end.

I'll see the toss of head
and feel the eyes still storming
and maybe understand this time
the signs that say fair warning.
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a repost...

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

1 posted 2008-09-22 12:55 PM

Martie, let me be the first to wish you Happy Birthday

I understand your dilemma
perhaps our muses ran away together

I hope yours returns soon...

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

2 posted 2008-09-22 12:59 PM

happy happy bd

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 2008-09-22 10:03 AM

Knowing all the while that
I'll come around again
and see my footprints here the same
moving toward the circle's end.

~*~

The circle never ends, baby...

Happy Birthday!

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2008-09-22 12:26 PM

Happy Birthday to you (tra-la-la)
Happy Birthday to you (tra-la-la)
Happy Birthday dear Martie (tra-la-la)
Happy Birthday to you (tra-la-la)!!!

Your poem is such a wonderful, rich layered Martie-experience - the exact opposite of an Enid Blyton one.

While your muse is on holiday, can't you just hang around and post some old ones? Mine is away too - perhaps with yours and Kate's - perhaps muses have a lunar camp when they feel they need a break!

Lovely to see you again.

- Owl

Mark Bohannan
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since 2000-06-21

Posts 7269
In the winds of Cherokee song

5 posted 2008-09-22 01:15 PM

Definitely have missed reading your words and it is a treat to indulge in them today. Wonderful as always to journey with you.

Happy Birthday my friend of the pier and I hope you find time to sift between palm and fingers some lace of sand on the shore.

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2008-09-22 03:25 PM

Happy Birthday, Neighbor. What a wonderful birthday present you gave US in this lovely poem.
Love and Best Wishes,
Ida

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

7 posted 2008-09-22 03:53 PM

"Let me count the gates..." How wonderful.

Happy Birthday, Martie. Bob

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

8 posted 2008-09-23 12:08 PM

Thanks so much...I appreciate each and every one of you!

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

9 posted 2008-09-23 04:24 PM

quote:
I hear the silence because it is so loud,
telling me I'm making the climb up hill,
with echoes from my own voice through time
where I wonder like a child,
if on the other side of every mountain
there is another place to ride.

Wonderful ponderings, dear Martie!

IT'S THE DAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Thank you for YOUR gift to us, may you receive many in return!

So my birthday wish for you is that you are AWARE of your muse being very much present ... sit and listen ... and write!

Love and hugs.
Margherita

"Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love."
(Rumi)

moonbeam

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since 2005-12-24

Posts 2356

10 posted 2008-09-23 04:30 PM

Great images tumble out of you as usual Martie. If this is sans muse, what will avec muse be like!?

M

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

11 posted 2008-09-23 04:34 PM

HBD!

Good to see you here my friend, you always are in my thoughts.

c.

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

12 posted 2008-09-23 05:04 PM

Hi Martie,

We all have muses that go missing from time to time. Mine has been on an extended vacation as well, seems like the left brain is taking over, sad to say.

It's good to read your words and hope you have a wonderful birthday.

Corinne

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

13 posted 2008-10-06 03:12 PM

Martie,

Happy Birthday (late).

I liked this poem a lot - and want to go out and peek over the mountains now to see what is beyond them.

I came to PiP on my birthday about two and a half years ago. It was the best birthday present that I have received (thank you, Sheli aka Divine Chaos).

I look forward to your posts when your muse returns.

A

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

14 posted 2008-10-19 05:24 PM

Martie~ I miss you when you are not here, but finding this is a great comfort.

Much love to you, for all your days~

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

15 posted 2008-10-19 07:33 PM

You are still soft as silk and sweeter than
honey, no matter what!

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

16 posted 2008-10-19 08:27 PM

oh happy birthday dear sweet Martie!! your poem is so beautiful.. I hope your day was/is filled with sunshine and smiles

love and hugs RDB xxxxxxx

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

LindsayP
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since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

17 posted 2008-10-19 09:01 PM

Happy birthday Martie and I'm sure it will be a happy day after writing such a gem.

Love Lindsay

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