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Grand Central Station |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Grand Central Station Phantoms walk across the great room, stiff in black coats, a suitcase in each hand and those ladies in taffeta and hats with flowers, maybe even a parasol, languid and gracefully poised waiting for a ticket. I can see the dusty smile of the clerk who nods his head, and yes, he has a stamp, I can hear it stomping time. The lady cannot run, she glides, her feet like small afterthoughts below her bellowing skirt, and the gentleman proper in elbow holding, soldiers a place in the movement toward a great and vibrant adventure of train with elegant dining and sleeping car of romance in small places quietly lulled and loved as towns fly past the window and cows and see that child waving. Now its lovely as a banquet hall for weddings, and glorious and high beamed still it is echoing hello and good-bye. I can hear it eyes wide open as if time has caught me in a merger. A new full skirt of beginning in white lace enters with a tuxedo love flower dotted youth and they pass blindly the wooden hallmark where tickets issued destinations far beyond a heart’s imagining. Oh yes I do believe, I believe in new beginning, but somehow it hurts to see time so emptied and proud and loud with memory, for I also believe in the spirit of the past. . [This message has been edited by Martie (edited 04-08-2000).] |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
While I often referred to our house as Grand Central Station when the four kids were in high school and we were inundated with teenagers on a nightly basis, yours is so much more lovely and reminiscent of yesteryear... what an exquisite picture you create. |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Martie~ You just fascinate me ! Every thought in a new light ... a vision that comes to me as though I'd never heard it put that way ... and yet ..... bringing me 'thoughts' I know I've seen and heard. 'her feet like small afterthoughts below her bellowing skirt' God, that's so familiar .... you just do the nicest things with your words. I'm a great big fan in case I haven't made that perfectly clear !  Love to you .... ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
I just got ta tell ya this is pressed somewhere between A plus and A plus. Your imagery seems to of taken on a new scope. Top of the line is a good place for you. |
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Rosemary J. Gwaltney Senior Member
since 1999-08-26
Posts 997northern mountains, Idaho |
Oh, Martie, you should either publish a book, or create a poetry site! You are blooming with exquisite poetry like a spring garden yourself! ~ ~ ~ This is such a wonderful picture of a time from the past! |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Very beautiful, Marge. You have caputured my sentiments exactly with your beautiful words! Denise |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
This is wonderful, Martie. It is always so interesting to look at a building or a place and recreate in the mind the activities and scenes that had taken place there, be it an old baseball stadium, the Titanic or Grand Central Station..... |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Mike--I love your grand central station, I think it needs a poem too...thanks so much for you comment. Marge--You are so sweet, I am a big fan of yours too, ya know lucky--if you were my teacher, with those grades, I'd be your pupil any day. Thank you so much for the sweet reply. Rosemary--maybe someday I will--thanks sweet friend. Denise--Martie likes comment--thanks Balladeer--Yes it is interesting. The last time I was at that station I was buy tickets and this time I was setting up for a wedding, just kind of blew we away. |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Martie, yours is a spiritual soul...most definitely! this was lovely journey, you took us back to the past, then forward again, then, just a peek back. Great poem. Corinne |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Thank you Corinne--this means alot coming from a poet such as yourself. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
I am always totally captivated by the imagery in your poetry. Wonderful work |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Martie, I hardly know what to say anymore, for you continually make my heart skip a few beats every time I read your work. I agree with Rosemary. Your work should be published so that many more could experience your writings. Here you have absolutely captured the spirit of the past in this piece. It is so much more than descripion. There is a blatant reality in the flow of your words, yet they don't shout the reality, just whisper it. You are amazing Liz |
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