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The Everlastingness of Love
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The Everlastingness of Love |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Dear mother long gone help me, It is time for new beginnings, no more burnt orange and brown of the room, be gone the dullness of the day. All your paintings in the closet stacked in dust and cobweb covers. They will add some color to this room. Upon the floor spread like stamps your paintings where you wrote your heart song now cover the envelope of my dull beige rug, color transformed into red and purple, deep blue and periwinkle. To heck with okra, I will have sunflower yellow and this almost black red of rose and here the foggy gray mist of ocean. I am trapped in the middle of a room of rainbows. Dear mother I am not a child, weep for the child in me, for the wife who almost sold her soul, then weep no more. I have called forth new beginnings crossed out days that made for sadness. Rejoice in the everlastingness of love. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
You've done it again - made me want to cry with your words. How stunningly beautiful Martie - and I don't say that lightly. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Oh, Martie ... I'm touched with the kaleidoscope of color you bring forth in this one. Breathtaking. Lovely. ------------------ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ [email protected] |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
This is beautiful, Martie. Very touching. ------------------ Denise |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Very well written Martie, BRAVO!! |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Thank you all for your comments on this poem close to my heart, but then I guess they all are heart songs. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Whew! This poem is so finely crafted it can not be read only once. Beautiful, beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing it. |
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Ohme Senior Member
since 1999-07-17
Posts 816Texas |
Beautiful, Martie. Some of my Mothers paintings brighten my world as well.  ------------------ Yesterday is history, tomorrow just a mystery. And if today is good to me how could I ask for more? |
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