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Martie

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0 posted 2011-02-05 05:39 PM

Welcome to my life this day is blue
and I have learned a thing or two since last we met
though snow lays grounded in some places tease
the dappled sun in me feels blessed and pleased

Don’t try to freeze me till I break
I am most sure and filled with light
even in the night I dream of lavender wings
in joyful reminder that I no longer ache

She decided long ago to go
and I've mourned my love to show
for many years I looked at February
as a month of fearful tragedy
now I see grief as a learning tool
one must pass through like any school
and I'll no longer show my love with sad
but rather in understanding love is glad

How about this
I let February be a place to see
a new flow within my stream
where loosened the rage of loss explores
the rippled lake of Evermore

not because I have forgotten Michelle
but choose to feel her love's warm spell
all the time

Sunshine

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1 posted 2011-02-05 06:20 PM

This...is all Michelle...and all you!

I love it! You've come a long way, baby!

Kiss her memory for me!

latearrival
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2 posted 2011-02-05 08:17 PM

Martie, You have the beauty of Michele's smile. I have the loud and the sad of Joanne's joy and her tears. We are both beginnig to wear them well. Thank for this.

best to you, jo

Martie

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3 posted 2011-02-05 08:22 PM

Karilea....consider her memory kissed

Jo...what a lovely thing to say! Hugs!

BluesSerenade
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4 posted 2011-02-05 08:40 PM

Don’t try to freeze me till I break
I am most sure and filled with light
even in the night I dream of lavender wings
in joyful reminder that I no longer ache

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Your love is a beautiful thing, and it enfolds me every time I read your memories of Michelle. I feel so blessed that you share it here on these blue pages.
It seems you've come full circle and as you said, Michelle's love is a warm spell flowing in your stream.

What a glorious feeling.

Bless you, dear heart~

serenity blaze
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5 posted 2011-02-05 09:23 PM

*hugging you tight*

I love the revision, and my heart is filled as you share the celebration of her life.

I love you too.

steavenr
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6 posted 2011-02-05 10:22 PM

"now I see grief as a learning tool
one must pass through like any school
and I'll no longer show my love with sad
but rather in understanding love is glad"

...much truth infused into these fine words...love how you ended it...an excellent write

Richy
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7 posted 2011-02-05 11:08 PM

Oh my gosh Martie...

I love you dear friend.

As we all do.

Especially, your beloved Michelle.

(((hugs))) Richard

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8 posted 2011-02-06 05:43 AM

Tears of happiness for you and Michelle, Martie. I am so glad you have opened the gate into a garden exploding with beautiful flowers.

Owl

JerryPat2
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9 posted 2011-02-06 12:32 PM

Achingly beautiful.

~ Some people are like a Slinky-not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs. ~

Honeybunch
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10 posted 2011-02-07 10:45 AM

Dearest Martie - I am sure it has been a long and painful journey to get to this point but getting there has, no doubt, made you even more of a beautiful person than you were before. Michelle was/is a gift to us all here who have read your lovely and heartfelt poetry.

My best to you.
Helen

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11 posted 2011-02-08 03:00 PM

True loving memories of loved ones
make the warmest security blanket.
It is a blanket of yours and Michelle's knitting and one that I am sure you will
always cherish when your heart needs warming.
The missing
the longing
the love
They can never be replaced.
Jeff

JerryPat2
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12 posted 2011-02-08 03:23 PM

What can I possibly say that hasn't already been said, Martie? This month. How it comes around so soon, adding yet one more year to your sorrow. but I know, and can sense, in this revised "Hello February," that Michelle's presence has become enough for you now, and it is good.

~ Some people are like a Slinky -- not really good for anything -- but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs. ~

suthern

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13 posted 2011-02-09 02:39 PM

This... is love. *S* Those last 3 lines must surely have heaven smiling! *S*

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