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Children teach their mothers
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Children teach their mothers |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Children teach their mothers to gather pond reflections and the opera of the sky in just one bird when one small hand rolls a bubble across the air covered with a cloth of clouds summer melon sweet love becomes as simple as sharp rocks and barefeet and as enchanting as one toothless grin Each breath like a current now tracks the sounds left in time minutes of milk-drained comfort and musk-scented blankets hair tatted to one finger and the whole world at the same time to keep safe by suckling until one day a leaf is tasted and the tongue knows there is more then jumping and falling for there is mud and wind and the danger of loving too much or not enough |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Oh Martie....to the library this goes! I visited my library today, and I noted that I have only gleaned the best from the best... and I'll bet I've missed LOTS! This, is indeed one of your finest ever! The mother-love...and compassion to allow our little ones to stray into their own dreams... Oh Sissie...no one ever does it quite like you.  |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
 missed the button...."poke" |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I have said what Sunshine just said to you many different ways, but she says it best and I agree with her completely. Good to see you here again. ~ Passionate kiss, like spider web, leads to undoing of fly. ~ |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
I can never get enough of your poetry, Martie. You have such a wonderful way with words. Ida |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Oh, wow, oh wow, oh WOW! This is a Martie-poem of all Martie-poems and there is no better compliment than that! Owl |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Reading this exquisite poem is an event, dear Martie. A reminder that love embraces everything and when the heart is the conductor of the love tunes, as it happens to children, then we are right on track. Wonderful. Love, Margherita |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
"love becomes as simple as sharp rocks and barefeet and as enchanting as one toothless grin" Very nice lines, in a beautiful poem...:-) You were able to stir my emotions a long time ago, and apparently still can. I enjoyed reading this poem..thank you for posting it. |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
Oh Martie this is wonderful, you know sometimes your poetry reminds me of the song in the "Sound of Music", "The Hills are Alive" Your ending is so vivid and so powerful. Beautiful work, good poetess~ |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Thanks Pip friends for the wonderful replies. I appreciate all !! |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Always such a pleasure to read you, Martie. Wonderful poem! Helen |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
"minutes of milk-drained comfort and musk-scented blankets hair tatted to one finger" oh my you take my breath away |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
Exquisite from beginning to end, totatlly immersing the reader in this wonderful world |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
Keeper~ Thank you MartiWord! |
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