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In Your Smile I Float to Zanzibar
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In Your Smile I Float to Zanzibar |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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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. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Zanzibar....it just sounds romantic and poetic. A beautiful write Martie, (but how can you miss? smiles) gently romantic |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Martie~ I love this ! Tender and gentle with your love. ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ noles1@totcon.com |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Martie, the images of Scheherazade surround this lovely piece... well done... |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
I've got my tickets Martie!! Wonderful!!!  --------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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Wilfred Yeats Member Elite
since 2000-08-04
Posts 2704Wilmington, Delaware |
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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maxtec1 Senior Member
since 2000-12-09
Posts 577Garland, Tx |
WOw I really liked this one. Nice picture you paint with your words. Love and light, Richard |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
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. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
All sorts of wonderful tropical images come to mind. Beautiful, Martie! Denise |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
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. =========== 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 |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Denise--I'm glad you were taken somewhere so lovely. Janet--where do you go to get cute lessons...I need some...hugs! |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
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 |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
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 |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
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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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
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 |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
A classic Martiesque wonder. Me thinks the flowers you work with must be exceptionally beautiful as the beauty of your poetry surrounds them. |
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Mark Bohannan Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-21
Posts 7269In the winds of Cherokee song |
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. author unknown |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~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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