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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2001-05-10 09:25 PM

The Best

Today on a winding road
up into hills
green from rain I drove,
looking for a gate.

Punch it in with a *
and gain easy access
to opening grace.
Homes that George Washington
might have lived in.

A second gate and another #
and I was granted entry to charm.
The land fell down in rolling green,
the sky was misted with heat
and nature infested hills behind
were heavy with breathing.

I walked to a door carrying an orchid
that drooped in perfect elegance,
and rang the shade-infected porch chime
that echoed down halls.

Then I turned and saw
in a bottle brush tree
just steps away,
a hummingbird in a tiny thumb-sized nest.

I knew inside this perfect crafting
I had found the best.

In the dew of little things,
the heart finds its morning
and is refreshed.
(ee cummings)

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2001-05-10 09:40 PM

Beautiful, Martie! Soooooo lovely! I haven't seen a hummingbird in years, but the memory of it will last a lifetime!

Elizabeth

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since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

2 posted 2001-05-10 09:41 PM

Sounds like you did find the best, Martie. Loved this!

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2001-05-10 09:56 PM

Martie~
Seems nature had a special delivery for you today too !

I love those little hummers.
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Sudhir Iyer
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since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

4 posted 2001-05-11 04:31 AM

This is extremely beautiful, Martie...

Regards,
Sudhir

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

5 posted 2001-05-11 04:34 AM

I have them at my window all the time, we get lots here by leaving sugar and water for them, aren't they cute little guys? Lovely Martie, and I hope you are not run off your feet too much in the Mother's Day rush? Do have a wonderful one.

~*~ I write ~ Therefore I am ~*~

Homepage: http://www.mysteria-poetry.cityslide.com/contents/contents.cfm/451673

Lady In White

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since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

6 posted 2001-05-11 10:29 AM

I might only hope that the inhabitants that were within were as pleasant as their landscaped dreams.

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

7 posted 2001-05-11 10:46 AM

lovely, Martie...

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II

Wilfred Yeats
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since 2000-08-04

Posts 2704
Wilmington, Delaware

8 posted 2001-05-11 12:35 PM

Your subjects - are always worthy - but it is your imaginative talent that turns your poems into such things of beauty - I'm at a loss to find adequate words of praise to describe. This is no exception

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

9 posted 2001-05-11 06:04 PM

This is lovely, Martie.

You write so well.

Michael

Proust-
"Love is space and time measured by the heart"

snowpants
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since 2000-09-16

Posts 2061
KS

10 posted 2001-05-11 11:48 PM

Very pretty write, Martie...I truly enjoyed this! Wonderful work!

sp

to be with you...
I've tried to hide my passion,
but it's just no use...
piece by piece I lose it
when you walk in the room...

SEA

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since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

11 posted 2001-05-12 03:52 AM

Martie~ I have hummingbirds that come to feed on my back deck.....I sit and watch in awe....this is beautiful

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