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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2001-09-25 10:37 AM

Reposted from #2 for Marge

Circles in the Garden

Circles move in the garden.
The flower folds into death,
seeks the ground and covers the warm earth,
molding with the leaves
swept from the tree onto the path,
making room for the new bud.

The strawberry's sunny face turns red,
the sweet pea is perfumed
the honey suckle sweetened
as the circle moves
and the end becomes
the beginning.

The flower
nipped in the bud
dies slowly,
coloring the room,
singing a heart,
joying the dancing boy and girl,
catching the girl's hair in the color
that sparkles her eyes.

As the sun moves into another rising,
flowers open to beauty
and close to death.
In this fantasy of time
a young girl strips the petals
from the daisy of her youth
and one by one drops her innocence
and opens into a woman.

A rose blooms
into the fragrance of a boys' desire,
and every breath
quickens him to manhood.

The flower lays tangled
in the memory of years,
pressed against the pages
of time, it waits
and grows a mamory.

If a flower is plucked
by some raging storm,
its seeds will set another bloom,
its petals will enrich the ground,
and nothing will be lost or forgotten.
In spring new flowers will color the hills,
and from a mound
of plain, brown earth
life will return.

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

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2001-09-25 10:42 AM

and from a mound
of plain, brown earth
life will return.

yes... this piece says so much and is summed up so well in the last 3 lines... I enjoyed!

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2001-09-25 10:46 AM

I went to pluck a line, here and there, to say "this says it all" but I ended up giving you back your whole poem, mixed with sunlight, to bring out the fragrance of such a gift you've given us....

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2001-09-25 11:02 AM

SweetestSisterOfMyHeart~

Thank you~

'If a flower is plucked
by some raging storm,
its seeds will set another bloom,
its petals will enrich the ground,
and nothing will be lost or forgotten.
In spring new flowers will color the hills,
and from a mound
of plain, brown earth
life will return.'

I feel that this is so lovely it just had to be shared at this time.

I find great comfort in knowing
the circles of the garden are being tended~
*Hugs* *Love*
~*Me*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2001-09-25 12:30 PM

Martie...this is just sooo beautiful!! Thank you for sharing.

~I've loved you forever, in lifetimes before~

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

5 posted 2001-09-25 01:32 PM

Martie,

I like the message in this one. Thank you for sharing this.

Michael

Michael Auguste~
There is more depth to the heart than the mind can comprehend and it only has boundaries when we choose to fence it in.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

6 posted 2001-09-25 11:34 PM

As the sun moves into another rising,
flowers open to beauty
and close to death.
In this fantasy of time
a young girl strips the petals
from the daisy of her youth
and one by one drops her innocence
and opens into a woman.

A rose blooms
into the fragrance of a boys' desire,
and every breath
quickens him to manhood.

The flower lays tangled
in the memory of years,
pressed against the pages
of time, it waits
and grows a mamory.

If a flower is plucked
by some raging storm,
its seeds will set another bloom,
its petals will enrich the ground,
and nothing will be lost or forgotten.
In spring new flowers will color the hills,
and from a mound
of plain, brown earth
life will return.
=========================

OH MY OH MY .......
well besides the beauty of this treasure...
this repost from a forum that was before I joined...serves as a reminder that there isa a WHOLE GARDEN of Martie I have not walked in...
*sigh* ....so much poetry so little me

maybe Ill give up sleep and play in the archives

thank you for sharing this one again....
its a gem!! As is the poet who wrote it.

me

Well tomorrow holds only mystery
And who's to say what might be
But in you I found a love so strong
The sun and the moon looked on in jealousy

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

7 posted 2001-09-26 02:03 AM

Oh Martie, what a beautiful, soothing poem to read on my last reading before bed, and for this I thank you for bringing it forward. It is so nice to read something beautiful for a change, istead of tradegy. Hugs, and it was absolutely beautiful.

~Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self~ Cyril Connolly

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

8 posted 2001-09-27 03:39 AM

Martie-
   My sweet friend...this touched me more
   deeply than I can explain.
   I am so glad you reposted this beautiful
   and hopeful write.
   Absolutely lovely, and most definitely
   needed in this time.
   Big hugs,
   ~Vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his heart,
you have not truly met the poet.
~vlraynes

Logan
Senior Member

since 2001-05-28

Posts 1641
Arkansas

9 posted 2001-09-27 10:33 AM

Ahhh, Martie, gentle one, your words are always so provocative to making the mind savor your thoughts you give to us so well. Happy that this was reposted, so those of us that are newer here, can enjoy once more your flow of life itself..very gentle smile

Munda
Member Elite

since 1999-10-08

Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands

10 posted 2001-09-27 02:36 PM

This is truly a beauty.

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