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So Beautiful this Circle
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So Beautiful this Circle |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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So beautiful this earth this crystal...fragile wealth There is so much beauty in this earth...one flower, one garden, one compost bin...multiply and grow one perfect rose. This poem reposted for the beauty of this earth and all things living ... 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. As 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, its seeds will set another bloom, its 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 04-23-2000).] |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Thank you, Martie, for sending me to bed with a smile on my face and beautiful images in my mind........ |
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Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Yes, very beautiful, Martie! Thank you! Denise |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
what a wonderful piece of art! Kathleen |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
You always have the most beautiful images in your poetry! Lovely!  |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Martie~ What a wonderful gardner you are, my friend. This is the loveliest floral bouquet I could ever hope to receive. You are just the BEST ! Your images jump off the page and into my heart. How do you do it? Such perfection everytime.  Love and Happy Easter, dear, dear lady. Circles make me happy. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
I hope you had sweet dreams, deer. Thank you Denise. Kathleen--thank you so much for reading and responding PdV--What a nice thing to say--thank you Marge--Circles are special and so are you..Happy Easter to you too! |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
A lovely, lovely springtime poem. Very fragrant, your verses Liz |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
What a pleasureable read for an Easter afternoon... *smile* |
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Franni Junior Member
since 1999-07-02
Posts 39 |
Martie, This is such a beautiful poem and discription of life. It is so appropriate to post on Easter. I always enjoy your refreshing imagery. Franni |
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lucky Senior Member
since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601Idaho |
Will the circle be unbroken..? Is life a merry-go-round with painted horses goin up and down..? Are we taken gone on a whim..? where does a circle ever end..? Looks like you got caught in a loop your back on top again. Nice title Martie. If I could paint a portrait, of this life in which I've led, and somehow sketch a story, of the visions in my head, I'd start out with a canvas, stretched tightly in a frame, and in the bottom corner, I'd leave room to sign my name. (Michelle A. Bartley) |
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