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Through Imagination's Eye
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Through Imagination's Eye |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Through Imagination’s Eye Where across the landscape is the blunt protruding object that trips our vision, where is the truth that captures people and wraps them in gossamer? Words are so mighty they can string an ache on the line of a heart, let it absorb all the nuance of a minutes captured view and like a painting of a backyard fence, rickety becomes romantic. The imagination is free to create any patina it chooses, a finger, a dimple, the sleek slide of a shoulder, can become blemish free and more fertile and tactile then reality. The allusive is so alluring. Like a butterfly it darts past the corner of our eye, flits nervously around the halo of our freshly shampooed hair floats nebulous and free on a tide of air, then leaves us to our purple haze of memory. We have not been there for the agony of birth from the chrysalis of change nor do we even know if wings hurt when stuck together with the glue of beginning. What if, that day it is storming and some errant rip of air tears the gossamer fluid grace of wing, before it can fly? We float with the butterfly, across a vision that we can build or shatter to our choosing and leave the sad and broken body of reality to turn to dust, alone. In the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (ee cummings) |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
How true my friend. Eloquently expressed with Martiesque beauty. |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
Martie my dear sweet friend of wisdom. You have penned my all time favorite of yours with this piece and you know it will be in my library now. TOP SHELF FAR LEFT.... Lovely and all so true. |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
The imagination is free to create any patina it chooses, a finger, a dimple, the sleek slide of a shoulder, can become blemish free and more fertile and tactile then reality. The allusive is so alluring. Like a butterfly it darts past the corner of our eye, flits nervously around the halo of our freshly shampooed hair floats nebulous and free on a tide of air, then leaves us to our purple haze of memory. Martie, an excellently penned piece, absolutely beautiful. I wish you could hear me sigh a long mesmerised "WOW" Sit down and bargain "Until your tongues are dry If the havoc and the shame continue We'll drown you in our putrefaction" Primo Levi |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Lovely! I think imagination is the one thing we should never lose. It's sad when kids are told they have to grow up, stop 'playing'! So sad..... |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
Where do I start? - quite overwhelmed here. Like Mark - this must be at or near the top of the list of all time greatest poems you've written. at least 10*'s keep raising the bar - we all need it |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
YOU TOO?????? hehe "We have not been there for the agony of birth from the chrysalis of change nor do we even know if wings hurt when stuck together with the glue of beginning." loved this stanza!! the whole thing is really well done... imagination and fantasy are tricky things... you done good!  |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Martie~ What a little gem ! Wish my imagination worked half as easily as yours.  Lovely thoughts, my friend. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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English Rose Member
since 2000-08-20
Posts 211Berkshire, England |
Martie... an imaginative and enjoyable read |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Excellently expressed, Martie! I, too, wish I had even half of your imagination! Denise |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Mike--how lovely...I am a new word..Martiesque...I love it and the friend stuff too. Mark--to be in your library is a privalage..thank you for always replying with your heart. Brian--I wish I could hear you too...it would be a real treat!! PdV--Yes, you are right...you should never have to draw within the lines...thanks for reminding me. Bill--Thanks for the 10. I really appreciate your responses..does make me feel good, it does! Doreen--Tricky sometimes, but how could we live without them...would be a colorless world. Marge--It is you that has the imagination that I wish for...hugs to my sis! English Rose--Thank you for stoping by to say so. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Opps, Hi Denise--Pushed the button too fast..thank you for being you...you are wonderful! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Martiesque is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT... Oh Gosh, you write so wonderfully well, and this is no exception.... regards, sudhir |
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