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Ellie.....a repost for love
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Ellie.....a repost for love |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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...and then the turmoil over the falling into light and cold of cloth the last hiccup softly sung there within your own beginning you quieted yourself. Your lower lip still trembling from your cry, within the sound my own milk drops again in phantom ache to mother, I touch your hair instead, your hair beyond soft, the color of a moonless sky.  Naked with your belly pressed to sheet, not pleased with placement you lift your head and look the other way, a most extraordinary feat. At that instant I see the truth of temperament, know something of your tenacity and will, envy the strength that turns your head away from mother to be within yourself. Not because I feel you turn from love, just see the strength in you that is already a song, someday you will be, yes, strong enough to get along. One finger touch across your naked back is touching a place never worn, of air in morning above the dew before the sun has opened, that is you. Your closed eyelids filled with tiny veins in graceful ballerina dance a feel of wonder....and of the power of something beyond life itself, something from the other place where maps are made. Maps are ever changing things, the folding left sometimes to chance, the weather beaten ones I hold so dear I wish for you to keep to find your way on small unlit dirt path instead of the dark line of road, and know the road you forge within yourself to be the most important goal. I wish your choices to be hard ones your walls and doors most difficult to build the value of the space and time around you, strong enough to open what you've filled I will be here watching in wonder your unfold, I'll be your basin catch or higher hand to move, adviser old an angel filled with poetry and prose, the teacher of the tender, I give to you the heart that felt your father grow into the man that holds you now with the love I helped him show.  -------------------------------- it's hard to believe she just turned 5 |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
Oh...what a wonderful little birthday gift you share. They do grow like posies, don't they?!!  Wonderful write. |
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MOCindy Member
since 2008-07-30
Posts 73 |
A heart-touching poem. Love. |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
quote: Wonderful write, dear Martie, enchanting and moving and of course masterfully written. A real keeper for this soft-hearted granny too. Love, Margherita |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes, it IS hard...but she'll show us the way! I'm so delighted I got to meet her, once upon a dream.  |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
Martie, This is indeed heartwarming and Lovely. Emotions and words right from the heart. Just so pure and thoughtful!  ARCTIC WIND |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
Excuse my writing if it is not quite correct..its dificult somtimes with tears in your eyes..thank you for this silken worded blanket of your love Martie...been a long time since i was here but quality remains still... especially with your words.... Goldenrose. This world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever... 1 John 2:17 |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
This brings back memories of my own, then my grand-children and now the great-grandchildren are coming. Love, Joyce |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
How quickly time passes and how fast our little darlings grow. Happy birthday to your granddaughter Ellie! May her life be one of vibrant good health, abundance, productivity, prosperity, ~ and joy. A warm and loving poem and heart-warming photo of father and daughter. "I give to you the heart that felt your father grow into the man that holds you now with the love I helped him show." ~ I can feel the love...  Linda |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
What a lovely tribute to your granddaughter, Martie. She will treasure this as she gets older. Ida |
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