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Martie
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0 posted 2000-12-28 07:44 PM


On Your Smile I Float to Zanzibar


Come with me to the ocean
on your smile I’ll float to Zanzibar
and gather pearls of sweet happiness

I’ll see you standing there
with your eyes not on my curving grace
but cast out into the Pacific
where you will be a fisherman
and face the wind and storm of another sea
to come home each night to me

You will bring me coconuts
and your hands I'll soften
with clove oil from the small jar
you bring wrapped in gold lame
and the fragrance will fill the night

My warm will take the chill off you
and I will laugh at the salt
that season your kisses
and bring you slippers
and hot buttered rum

In music of the night we’ll fall
against the cushions of our love
solid in a room that is built on rock
not sliding sand or rolling sea
and comfort will caress my dreams
wrapped and stilled and breathing you

Now soft my darling in this dream
for in your smile I float to Zanzibar
and gather pearls of sweet happiness.

© Copyright 2000 Martie Odell Ingebretsen - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2000-12-28 08:00 PM


Zanzibar....it just sounds romantic and poetic.

A beautiful write Martie, (but how can you miss? smiles) gently romantic

Marge Tindal
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2 posted 2000-12-28 08:20 PM


Martie~
I love this !
Tender and gentle with your love.
~*Marge*~



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Sunshine
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3 posted 2000-12-28 08:38 PM


Martie, the images of Scheherazade surround this lovely piece...

well done...

Sven
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4 posted 2000-12-28 08:43 PM


I've got my tickets Martie!!

Wonderful!!!  

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That which gives light must endure burning
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Wilfred Yeats
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5 posted 2000-12-28 08:49 PM


I've visions - of the moonlight on the ocean
and in your hair. Wonderful scents invading my nostrils, and hearts filled with love - This is most beautiful Martie

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6 posted 2000-12-28 09:00 PM


WOw I really liked this one. Nice picture you paint with your words.
Love and light,
Richard

Martie
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7 posted 2000-12-28 09:22 PM


serenity--I thought so too...thanks for the nice things you say.

Marge--Thank you sweet sis!

Karilea--I hadn't thought of that..but you're right!

Sven--Maybe we can be neighbors...sure glad to see you.

Bill--I'm glad my dream made a dream for you...thanks so much for friendship.

Richard--I'm very glad you liked it...thanks for letting me know.

Denise
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8 posted 2000-12-28 10:03 PM


All sorts of wonderful tropical images come to mind. Beautiful, Martie!

Denise

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9 posted 2000-12-28 10:08 PM


You will bring me coconuts
and your hands I'll soften
with clove oil from the small jar
you bring wrapped in gold lame
and the fragrance will fill the night

My warm will take the chill off you
and I will laugh at the salt
that season your kisses
and bring you slippers
and hot buttered rum

In music of the night we’ll fall
against the cushions of our love
solid in a room that is built on rock
not sliding sand or rolling sea
and comfort will caress my dreams
wrapped and stilled and breathing you

Now soft my darling in this dream
for in your smile I float to Zanzibar
and gather pearls of sweet happiness.
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oh yeah..and I WANNA WATCH   LOL     (teehee)
oh baby what a wonderful vision you conjure up with this beauty
ya know your looking mighty good in that grass skirt  
got that Me Tarzan--you Jane thing a going on. LOL
way cool me girlie..way
me

Martie
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10 posted 2000-12-29 01:34 AM


Denise--I'm glad you were taken somewhere so lovely.

Janet--where do you go to get cute lessons...I need some...hugs!

ethome
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11 posted 2000-12-30 05:29 AM


You can fall against the cushions of my love anytime there sweetheart! The dreamy romantic flow of this is marvelous...ah! the poet's perspective really is another world that's always worth travelling to. This time it's Zanzibar....tomorrow Atlantis??? who knows
loved it Martie!! Just fab!  ethome

Elizabeth Santos
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12 posted 2000-12-30 08:08 AM


Martie,
This is stunning, I am lifted by your poetic expression. It's always fresh and creative and yet disticntly you. This poem just sweeps the reader's imagination.
Bravo to you, Martie for your prolific masterpieces.
Liz

Martie
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13 posted 2000-12-30 11:19 AM


ethome--what a wonderful reply...thank you, friend poet...(PS...do you like to fish? )

Hi Liz..my sweet friend..if you are lifted by my poem, then I am very pleased, thank you!

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14 posted 2000-12-30 11:25 AM


everything filled my senses, but as cold and snowy as it is here today, the hot buttered rum did it!  Thank you Martie

"Every man dies.
Not every man truly lives."
Braveheart

Kathleen



Mike
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15 posted 2000-12-30 11:48 AM


A classic Martiesque wonder.
Me thinks the flowers you work with must be exceptionally beautiful as the beauty of your poetry surrounds them.

Mark Bohannan
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16 posted 2000-12-30 01:57 PM


You my friend have just become the beacon of light in the lighthouse of tender romance.  Beautiful write from you and I just love the feelings of comfort and caring in this piece mixed with the visions of dreams that come in the honest sharing of your heart.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
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17 posted 2000-12-30 02:07 PM


~I am so pleased that I found this poem! You wrap the idea, the feeling, the fuel for this in perfectly poetic words and lift me in some way, always do. Thank you. *Peace.
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