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Martie
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0 posted 2000-12-10 08:17 PM


Blank Document

Okay let me see here,
how intimidating can you be?

Already there are black letters
destroying your purity
and although they don’t say much,
I can make them say what ever I want.

I can turn you in to a rant
or I can lay you down like love,
I can color you with sunsets
maybe make you into snow,
that would be easy
since you’re already white.

I can read words off the top of my head you see
like a book that opens and I point somewhere
and there you are,
a thought that must be written,
a kitten that slides in the open door to heart
and I can see it there
soft and purring and lapping white milk.

So let see what I’ve done here,
I’ve said just about nothing,
but you my friend
are no longer white,
you are kitten paw prints now,
and although I am certainly not brilliant,
I am a little purged
and not afraid of you in the least,
so there!


[This message has been edited by Martie (edited 12-10-2000).]

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Denise
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1 posted 2000-12-10 08:33 PM


Very good, Martie!! Don't ever let that blank page intimidate you!! It doesn't stand a chance!!

Denise

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2 posted 2000-12-10 08:42 PM


Martie, there shall never be a blank page around you, because your heart and your mind are so full of giving...

never never never....


Karilea
If I whisper, will you listen?...
I would rather be silent and write, than speak loudly and be bound.
KRJ




Aimster
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3 posted 2000-12-10 09:43 PM


martie,

i loved this! as long as there are words
from your heart to your pen, there will
never be a blank page from you. great
poem my friend...

take care.
~amy~

Janet Marie
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4 posted 2000-12-10 09:52 PM


MEOW baby..MEOW  

me thinks Martie-girl is dancing the same dance with her muse as I am ...
darn moody muse...
well ya did better than I...
all my "blank documents" ended up as free throws and hook shots in the trash can today  


Some people find subtlety in strangers
if you find anything~let me in
Your eyes~you see everything
my eyes~I see it all together now~and I know

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5 posted 2000-12-10 10:08 PM


Martie~

You are unbelievable !
Silly little muse - trying to hide from YOU !
Perish the thought !
*Soft-as-a-kitten Hugs*
~*Marge*~



~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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lucky
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6 posted 2000-12-10 10:19 PM


Sheesh Martie'

The ones I hate are the ones that come in the mail and their words hold no rhymes but they have their reasons and for some strange reason they want me to sign 'em.

dale
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Martie
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7 posted 2000-12-10 11:34 PM


Denise---It did...but then I went for the gusto...LOL...thanks

Karilia--I will keep that never, never, never in mind...thanks sweet one.

Amy--Maybe not great, but I hope, a little funny.

Janet--That's probably where this one should be, but my aim was off... meow!

Marge--I love that sweet white cat and the soft hugs.

Lucky--I know the onces you mean...I've seen them before.  

Wilfred Yeats
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8 posted 2000-12-11 12:01 PM


I never thought of myself (let alone a muse) as a white kitten - but I do believe you could change my mind ~G~ - This really tickled me

Mark Bohannan
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9 posted 2000-12-11 02:22 PM


My dear friend, if ever there was a must that had no hope of hiding from it's poet then it is yours.  There is no way that anything you pen could be less the remarkable because even in a coma, I believe that you would see the world in rainbow swirls.  Now what is this about the hookshot into the waste basket?  Don't you ever or you will have a cowboy rummaging through your cans at night.   Hugs my friend.  

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
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Ethan Halo
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10 posted 2000-12-11 02:41 PM


"i'd rather see things from a different point of view."
the page is not blank.
they're polar bears in a snowstorm.  

i like this one. a very inspirational vibe.


"The bar is always open,
the time is always right.
If God's good word goes unspoken,
then the music goes all night."



Cuddlez
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11 posted 2000-12-11 02:47 PM


OOOOOOHHHHHHH. Wish I wasnt intimidated with that last history paper... *gulp*
). Lovely write...

Time flies? Say it not so, time stays we go.

Martie
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12 posted 2000-12-11 08:36 PM


Bill--the white kitten is the page, you see and the words are the paw prints..well, I guess you would have to be there...there was no muse, by the way.

Mark--If you'll come and rummage through my cans...I'll throw a poem away...thanks for the hug, cowboy.

Ethan--Yes, a polar bear in a snow storm...perfect!

Cuddles--yikes!  papers of any kind are sometimes intimidating.

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