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A Brother's Merciless Tease
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A Brother's Merciless Tease |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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A Brother’s Merciless Tease You sit against the green Acacia tree of my mind’s summer, running your hand across your nose. This allergic salute you are known for, leaves a snail’s track up that freckled road of cheek, jumping the river of your eye, coming to rest in your brow. You were the cry of my child you touched me and it hurt, you teased the growing in me and I wailed the strength you had over my integrity. Now, the orange and gold flying flowers of spring you caught with your child-net, have gone to rest in rainbows. and you carry M.D. around behind your name. I didn’t know you in your sterile white jacket until now. Against the green Acacia tree you would always return to sit, wearing the same days and hours in your white tee-shirt and dirt-stiff jeans, your duck-tail plastered back My minds summer sings many season’s growth, but your image was petrified and tied to roots stronger then those. I have seen you in the new light in the evening of time spent, I watch you surprised that you are old. I place your graying with my own, disturbed in memory into a man I like, after the folly of rivalry and the merciless tease of youth. It’s about time. In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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Astraea Member
since 1999-11-09
Posts 378California! Yeah! Okay, I'm done now |
I like this one. Very lovely. ~Astraea "Sometimes stars can only be seen in darkness." "Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Martie, It seems that wonderful writing like this gets pushed to the back so fast that I often miss it. I am in awe of your talents, Martie. I feel honored to be among your friends. Hope I get to meet you. Liz |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
hehe. How do you keep coming up with this incredible imagery? You amaze me. |
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JOY 14 Senior Member
since 1999-09-22
Posts 1419Wisconsin USA |
Martie, much enjoyed! JOY |
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devina Member Elite
since 1999-10-28
Posts 3539Cali |
Very heartfelt, your brother should be proud! Open arms can be the most fragile in the world... |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
Yes, very lovely! ~*~ Hell is not a place of fire and a devil with a tail and horns. But a place of torment because the light of God is gone. To escape this, accept the blood of Jesus Christ! ~*~ |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Thank you so much for reading this poem and for commenting--my brother hasn't seen it yet. I'm not sure how he would feel about it.  In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
I'm sure he would love it, Martie! He might not say he liked it but I'm sure he will! It's beautiful! Denise |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Wow Martie, this was fantastic. You have a way of putting the reader right inside the poem and I enjoyed the visit. ~Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self~ Cyril Connolly |
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