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Rake it Up
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Rake it Up |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Look at this vibrant sky! It has lost its shroud that hung gray and cloaked across back yards. It flung it off for spring, to see how a sky can beam after the wind has brushed it and torn all wayward leaves that would be fluttering. I can feel the ions shift and quicken the pulse of time, for the minute is crisp and going is not laced but silky with movement. The flowers are listening for the honey bees return their ears cocked their sweetness opening, fragrant and beguiling. Look at this vibrant sky! I see the fragile canopy that held my youth tattered and failed across the ripening grasses, and I think this day is for a lover’s touch, singing nonsense songs, and screeching children gleefully negligent of their preciousness. It is also a day for shedding, and that’s what I do. Like the snake, this skin has grown too old for the slither of my soul, this ripe blossoming is wondrous in its new and ribald glistening, it splits the old and leaves it like an errant leaf, and today I will rake it up. ______ 3-00 |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
So the sun is gleaming golden in your windows too, is it?! Good to know...when I was padding about the kitchen this morning, it was beaming gold in my rooms, and I was thinking...today's a SPRING day...then I looked out and watched the robin shiver! Hopefully we'll get up to 60 degrees today...just before the snow flies on Monday and Tuesday....ROTF... good MORNING Martie!!!! |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
Look at this vibrant sky! I see the fragile canopy that held my youth tattered and failed across the ripening grasses, and I think this day is for a lover's touch, singing nonsense songs, and screeching children gleefully negligent of their preciousness. ============================= once again I say...the sky is one of your finest muses. this is so full of anticpation and retrospect. and like Sunshine...we cant get winter to let go yet either..last week we were in 70s this week we went back into 20's and all the buds and bulbs got zapped. Theres no rhyme or reason...just mother nature reminding us who is in control of changing the seasons.  |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Martie, It is also a day for shedding, and that’s what I do. Like the snake, this skin has grown too old for the slither of my soul, this ripe blossoming is wondrous in its new and ribald glistening, it splits the old and leaves it like an errant leaf, and today I will rake it up. ______ There is nothing I can add to this.  |
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Mistletoe Angel 
since 2000-12-17
Posts 32816Portland, Oregon |
  (smiles) Awwwwwwww, this is soooooo beautiful, sweet friend, may we all rake up the grief of yesterday and garden new dreams and hopes for tomorrowe that we can thresh happily with delight as they come true! (kiss on cheek) This is wonderful, sweet friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Martie, thank you for sharing! May love and light always shine upon you! Love, Noah Eaton |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
It is darn cold here, and no sun either, so I am delighted for you Martie that someone is warm. What an incredilbe way you have of taking the same words I know and sqeezing out every bit of life from them and making something so pleasurable to the mind and eye. Have a wonderful day in that sunshine! ~* Reality is an illusion ~ albeit a persistant one *~ |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Exquisite, Martie! Very beautifully done! |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Martie, this makes me want to get out and plant flowers, rake leaves and shed my own skin.... Nice write, enjoyed! |
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Madame Chipmunk Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-05
Posts 8296Michigan |
for the minute is crisp and going is not laced but silky with movement. You have an amazing way with words, Martie...  ~hugs~copyright2002 Lyra Nesius |
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