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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2001-10-03 04:34 PM

Past Yourself with no Moon ....reposted for Karilea

I looked with jaded eyes
at the trail where I walked,
I even sat down and contemplated
where I was going

Picture a rock in the middle
of a dirt road in the dark.

For the moon
hid its slide from me
behind my clouded need
even though I longed for it
to touch my face
and run its pearl rays
across my hair,
the moon is not beguiled
by the want in me.

And I know the moon has no fragrance
but when it’s hidden,
the nectar of the night,
from trellises of jasmine
and the breeze that slides down
the mountain off the sage,
even the scented geranium stills
its weave across the open yard.

So not only was I on a rock
in the middle of a dirt road
but there was no night fragrance stirring.
no lace winged song of nightingale.

The sky closed me in
the breath of familiarity
and the stagnate pool of lethargy
and the rocky here I sat on
softened and sagged with me into the dirt
of some truth that had eluded me.

Instead of jumping into stars gleaming
with love dance song song tune you see
I was laying in my own melancholy,
until I felt a touch on my cheek
soft like the underbelly of a newborn kitten

and I opened my eyes to the long purple fingers
of a flowering Mexican sage
and its bloom taught me
that if you look just a little past yourself
you might be able to see
even with no moon.

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

1 posted 2001-10-03 04:37 PM

Martie, I love this! What a beautiful lesson, indeed

Bravo!
I'm printing this out to show some family and friends - they NEED to read this!

Take care,
Melissa~

"Poetry is not an opinion expressed...
it is a song that rises from a bleeding
wound...or a smiling mouth"

~Kahlil Gibran~

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2001-10-03 04:51 PM

How so like you to read beyond what others write, knowing that for some, just this very thing is what they need to put one foot beyond the other....

well done, our Martie...thank you!

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2001-10-03 04:59 PM

that if you look just a little past yourself
you might be able to see
even with no moon.

Martie..My only wish is to be able to write like you at some point. Exquisite!!
~Magical smiles and hugs, Nancy~

~Time has cast a spell on you,
So that you won't ever forget me.~

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

4 posted 2001-10-03 05:23 PM

ah Martie..when I read your words I never fail to think... and I always have the thoughts of how when we look at things beyond the obvious...we find more than perhaps even the author knew they shared...

when I grow up...( like I am ever going to)
I want to write like you.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

5 posted 2001-10-03 06:01 PM

For the moon
hid its slide from me
behind my clouded need
even though I longed for it
to touch my face
and run its pearl rays
across my hair,
the moon is not beguiled
by the want in me.

And I know the moon has no fragrance
but when it’s hidden,
the nectar of the night,
from trellises of jasmine
and the breeze that slides down
the mountain off the sage,
even the scented geranium stills
its weave across the open yard.
===================================

that if you look just a little past yourself
you might be able to see
even with no moon.
====================================

trust me sweet poet...moon or not...
you see just fine ...
and by your words..then so shall we

this is awesome.

We're all feeding our lonely ... like it might go away,
Like the doors of heaven will swing wide ... if we just find the right words to say.

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

6 posted 2001-10-03 06:37 PM

Well I am moonstruck! What a wonderful poem and message Martie, and somewhere in it I felt a tender tug too.

~I always have time to listen to someone talking from their heart~

Logan
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since 2001-05-28

Posts 1641
Arkansas

7 posted 2001-10-04 01:13 AM

Ahh, Martie, gentle one, I love seeing your reposts, because it just means one more wonderful poem of yours that I haven't seen before, and this one is fantastic..very gentle smile

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

8 posted 2001-10-04 02:41 AM

SweetSisterOfMyHeart~
This is so beautiful~
All of it ... just so beautiful~

'if you look just a little past yourself
you might be able to see
even with no moon'

I'm a'looking~
*Love* *Hugs* n' other fancy stuff~
~*Marge*~

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

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

9 posted 2001-10-31 01:23 PM

Martie-
   Oh...now, how did I miss this beauty?
   This is wonderful, my friend.
   I absolutely LOVE it!
   Hugs,
   ~Vicky

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

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

10 posted 2001-10-31 01:54 PM

Excellent lesson within Martie and of course, these lines are indelible...
"that if you look just a little past yourself
you might be able to see
even with no moon. "

~*~ Carpe' Diem ~*~

catalinamoon

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since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

11 posted 2001-10-31 09:16 PM

This is beautiful, very much appreciated, as a fellow moon lover.
Sandra

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