Open Poetry #17 |
The Envelope |
Martie
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The Envelope (a rewrite) I found it after years, I saw how it was stamped with so many colors and words. A piece of tape mends a tear, the paper now thinning is almost transparent, one sticker hanging on by a corner says love. This envelope was sent many times across the miles and now it is ripped and torn, slit with a perfect pointed opener. Return to sender, I see in bold black letters. No longer at this address, I read. Once it was perfumed with a tinge of innocent gardenia and a SWAK in red with blotted pink lips. Now it smells like the dust of old books in a second hand store. There were flower stamps and stickers with smiley faces, on the outside barely visible worn by time’s ink fade I read I love you in a child’s tortured print. I found it pressed in a dictionary, one of those big ones from the library that you can’t move, stationary with the weight of words. Now it is fat and full, it is so heavy with feeling that it falls and opens on the hardwood floor of time and all those words just roll towards me like colored marbles. To decorate this aging |
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Balladeer
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NOBODY else can write quite like this! Martie, this is exquisite...absolutely perfect. |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
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Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion |
You held me captive for the whole poem, Martie. You are a wonderful poet. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
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Now it is fat and full, it is so heavy with feeling that it falls and opens on the hardwood floor of time and all those words just roll towards me like colored marbles. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martie...incredible as always. Loved it! ~Smiles, hugs and luv, Nancy~ *~ Wishing everyone a New Year filled with Peace & Love ~* |
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BloomingRose Member Elite
since 2000-08-09
Posts 3092Florida |
Oh Wow! Good write. Deb |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
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Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Martie, I can't say it better than Balladeer, exquisite. |
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Sunshine
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Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Gads...I remember this...and every line...touched by magic... |
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Kethry Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082Victoria Australia |
Martie, when you write the world stops in wonder to hear. Kethry Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown |
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craigrk Member
since 2001-12-23
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Compelling story. this was a beautiful first read of the day . thanks |
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