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Open Poetry #3

Collecting Mary Kate

Soleil
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since 1999-06-12

Posts 113

0 posted 1999-10-06 10:03 PM

Under late September skies
In the courtyard of Salon de The
The air is still, the sky is gray.
Pigeons line a clay red wall
A guitarist plays soft melodies.
Bachelor buttons push up through
The cracks in the brick
Periwinkle blue that daunts footfall.
It is a favored time of day
For I am collecting Mary Kate.
She passes through the iron gate
And on bended knee
Catches a butterfly in cupped hands.
Closes her eyes and makes a wish,
And then with open heart
Lets it free.
And I flashing think
That if salvation is a gift received
A memory is a moment held and believed.

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

1 posted 1999-10-06 10:05 PM

A wonderful flavor to this poem. Nicely done.

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

2 posted 1999-10-06 10:58 PM

Very wonderful, yes!

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Denise

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

3 posted 1999-10-07 03:54 PM

I like it, it likes me. Well done.

Julie
Senior Member

since 1999-08-20

Posts 739
Houston, TX

4 posted 1999-10-07 04:27 PM

"A memory is a moment held and believed"...
BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.

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Julie
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Thou who has given so much to me,
give one thing more: a grateful heart.
>George Herbert

Iloveit
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since 1999-09-02

Posts 1121
NM

5 posted 1999-10-07 04:45 PM

very beautiful, from the title to the ending, I really liked it

Soleil
Member

since 1999-06-12

Posts 113

6 posted 1999-10-07 08:36 PM

Thanks,...this was based on a very real place and a very real moment.

caroline
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since 1999-08-16

Posts 1218
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7 posted 1999-10-07 08:45 PM

I so enjoyed this, Soliel.

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"Tread softly, for I have spread my dreams under your feet"~~William Butler Yeats

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