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Martie

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California

0 posted 2001-06-11 11:49 AM

(reposting because I have an anniversary coming up on Thursday...21 years..and was thinking about the specialness of love)

Colored with his Love

Sometimes the sun
pulls some kind of magic from the sky
and I can feel it nudge my skin
in a reverent way,
as if someone conspired
to let me see more clearly
how the water emits radiance
and sounds are sharply cut
from a song of continuance.

Today I saw this magic
in something far more finite,
something as fragile as a flower
and as strong as a caress,
I saw it in hands, dear hands,
beloved and torn on one delicate thumb,
hands that had traced the years
around the heart of my nurturing
and had felt the callus of life
tear into my skin with time.

Hands that desire the earth
and touch it like a woman,
hands that are strong enough
to crush the bones of rocks,
hands that hear beauty knock
and build it in the doorway
while I wait with who’s there
not yet spoken.

I could see so clearly
how for-granted colored the knuckles
and I felt great tenderness for nail ridge’s curl
and the slightly pink flesh
that fell into the heartland
of his palm.

If I could hold them now
cupped giants between my own
I would open them
and kiss the inside of my heart
for as I looked with this clarity
I saw it there as sure as a blink
and it was colored with his love.

Sunshine

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1 posted 2001-06-11 11:55 AM

Congratulations on a love well done....21 years! Bless you both!

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

2 posted 2001-06-11 11:58 AM

I love the reminiscing aspect of this Martie....you are such a great poetic talent... he is one lucky guy!

To start a poem like this......

               "Sometimes the sun
                 pulls some kind of magic from the sky
                 and I can feel it nudge my skin
                 in a reverent way,
                 as if someone conspired
                 to let me see more clearly
                 how the water emits radiance
                 and sounds are sharply cut
                 from a song of continuance."

just makes me want to read and read wishing the poem would go on forever.....
Congrats and have a nice day!

The role of poetry is to utter the un-utterable; to open up
spaces of consciousness and resistance; to language oppressions; to
re-language historie

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

3 posted 2001-06-11 02:33 PM

A beautiful tribute, and an amazing thing really, keeping love new is not an easy thing, CONGRATULATIONS....very happy for you!

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

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4 posted 2001-06-11 02:56 PM

Hands that desire the earth
and touch it like a woman,
hands that are strong enough
to crush the bones of rocks,
hands that hear beauty knock
and build it in the doorway
while I wait with who’s there
not yet spoken.

I could see so clearly
how for-granted colored the knuckles
and I felt great tenderness for nail ridge’s curl
and the slightly pink flesh
that fell into the heartland
of his palm.

If I could hold them now
cupped giants between my own
I would open them
and kiss the inside of my heart
for as I looked with this clarity
I saw it there as sure as a blink
and it was colored with his love.
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THIS is classic Martie writing....
and one of my faves of your...
Happy Anniversary to you and Taylor...
oh how I envy the inspire