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Circles |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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(It's such a beautiful day in California that I wanted to repost this poem for the beauty everywhere) Circles in the Garden Circles move in the garden. The flower folds into death, seeks the ground and covers the warm earth, molding with the leaves swept from the tree onto the path, making room for the new bud. The strawberry’s sunny face turns red, the sweet pea is perfumed the honey suckle sweetened as the circle moves and the end becomes the beginning. The flower, nipped in the bud dies slowly, coloring the room, singing a heart, joying the dancing boy and girl, catching the girl’s hair in the color that sparkles her eyes. The sun moves into another rising. Flowers open to beauty and close to death. In this fantasy of time a young girl strips the petals from the daisy of her youth and one by one drops her innocence and opens into a woman. A rose blooms into the fragrance of a boy’s desire, and every breath quickens him to manhood. The flower lays tangled in the memory of years, pressed against the pages of time, it waits and grows a memory. If a flower is plucked by some raging storm, another bloom will be set by it’s seeds, it’s petals will enrich the ground, and nothing will be lost or forgotten. In Spring new flowers will color the hills, and from a mound of plain, brown earth life will return. Circles move in the garden. Circles are forever. [This message has been edited by Martie (edited 11-13-1999).] |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
This is beautiful, Martie! And enjoy your beautiful day!  ------------------ Denise |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
Nice job Martie..."what comes around goes around".....In death there is new life....and you did a fine job describing such.... |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Marti ... I love this. Circles are a favorite of mine. The circles of friendship brought me to this garden. ------------------ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Ohme Senior Member
since 1999-07-17
Posts 816Texas |
Martie, this sounds like a very lovely garden that just goes on forever. Pretty day in the heart of Texas as well. ------------------ I look forward to tomorrow, while looking back on the past. But today is the day I am living. And I expect it to be a great day! |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
The day has almost ended now a circle in itself as light turns dark in skies across the world the dark turns light |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Everything is circles, Martie. I'm so happy you are in ours. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Wish I were in Ca enjoying that beautiful day right now |
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