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Sunshine
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0 posted 2002-03-16 08:49 AM



Anticipating Martie

she grows us green
and like tender buds of spring
                                                keeping up the good search
she allows us to grow
encouragement and watering
showing and showering
                                               having a whistle type of day
so delicious
the scents she cultivates…
                                             in pausing to think

sometimes she is
Eliza Doolittle to me
for I hear of flowers
and flower keepers
                                            I've seen us both hold the key
knowing
she is a giver of flowers

then Martie comes to mind
with a bit of an accent
but oh so much wiser
                                            even when running on empty
and she paints
a moment like no one
I know… O…
                                                her poetry holds court
the good poets that are
here
all revere
our Martie

gently knocking, knocking
on blue
she keeps us rocking, rocking
anew
gently kicks us forward,
takes us to our knees
all I ask for, Martie,
are some more words, please…

string them, sing them
make them rhyme
show me distant
feel the time
walk with us and talk with us
on a ride with such a view

I haven’t all the words yet
but some words do come to mind
if I were to compare us
I’d find me on the other side of her mirror
knocking to get out…

if I compare us…I don’t

                    for we’re deeper than you think

                    we’re a chance meeting
                    for you to see the signs

                    we’re a harmony unknown
                    in the words we sing

                    we’re a chance meeting
                    for the gifts we bring


but
to always
breathe her words
walk her mind
be the song in her throat

oh, she grows me green
but jealousy has no place here
no…she grows me green as a bud
watering me
allowing me to grow
and shine

so I am watchful
and waitful
and grateful
in anticipating Martie…

01.17.01


[This message has been edited by Sunshine (03-16-2002 08:51 AM).]

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Nan
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1 posted 2002-03-16 08:52 AM


Simply lovely... Martie is a breath of spring for sure...

Jealous?  I can be jealous, can't I?  Martie's and your work both make me wish I could write like you both... I really do...

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2 posted 2002-03-16 09:32 AM


yes....I remember this gem of pen...for you put into words what I felt but couldnt say so elegantly...I too anticpate her muse.
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3 posted 2002-03-16 11:44 AM


Karilea, I feel exactly like Janet Marie said...You were able to put into words what I feel inside about our Martie.  How she nutures us and helps us to grow...wonderful Kari...just wonderful.
~Smiles and hugs, Nancy~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

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4 posted 2002-03-16 02:15 PM






BRAVO!!! Ooohhhhhh...this is fabulous, sweet friend, she is indeed our "Flower Girl", who always blossoms with flowers of love and inspiration to us all which scatter all about these blue pages! (kiss on cheek) We all love you both so much, sweet friends, you are both wonderful friends to us all, I know Martie will treasure this always! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karilea, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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5 posted 2002-03-16 02:16 PM


Very lovely Karilea.
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6 posted 2002-03-16 02:50 PM


Karilea, Oh this is so sweet.
"gently knocking, knocking
on blue
she keeps us rocking, rocking
anew'
Just love your lines in this one, floria

Floria

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them"
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

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7 posted 2002-03-16 02:51 PM


a lovely tribute to a lovely lady!

Cor

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8 posted 2002-03-16 04:30 PM


A most excellent tribute to a precious friend and truly lovely poet.   She belongs to us all.  

Stars will shine when I am gone
Earth will spin on as before
Gulls still race along the shore
Morning star, still kiss the dawn

~ M. Auguste

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9 posted 2002-03-16 06:31 PM


Ahhh Sunshine, this is most excellent! Great tribute to a wonderful Lady.
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10 posted 2002-03-16 08:48 PM




i rise to applaud this lovely tribute
so beautifully penned with so many
wonderful lines, and a flow that grows
in my soul.....

and for the Poet
you honor...

Martie.....

deserves so many praises...
her talent is amazing
and you have captured
her spirit and all she gives
by writing a  lyrical garden

wonderful!!!

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11 posted 2002-03-19 11:02 PM


Karilea~
Such a lovely write ....

She is a bouquet of words~
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

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