Anticipating Martie....a day for remembering

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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2003-02-21 07:07 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

Sudhir Iyer
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since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

1 posted 2003-02-21 07:46 AM

a great poem from a great writer for another great writer...

Regards to you,
Sudhir

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

2 posted 2003-02-21 08:10 AM

your poetic envy is as lovely as your intentions...I grow green right along side of you at her gift. A wonderful tribute and poetic hug.
heres one of the mothy kind for the both of you

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky ...
We fell them down to turn them into paper that we may record our emptiness."

K.Gibran

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

3 posted 2003-02-21 08:42 AM

I could never say it as poetically as you and Janet Marie, but I also appreciate our Martie....she teaches me a lot through her examples of poetry and of living what she writes....I feel....and as you, JM, and so many of the other fine writers here do....

THANKS to you all

Heart Hugs,
Ethel

[This message has been edited by garysgirl (02-21-2003 08:43 AM).]

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2003-02-21 08:58 AM

I know how you feel Karilea..
Our dear sweet Martie..has that magical way with words...
a way I ever wish for, but know I shall not attain...
For she is one of a kind..beautiful and sincere.
Thank you for this...and she is in my heart of remember today...
yes, especially today.
~Hugs to you, Nancy~

~ Trace my body with your words..
And in doing so, you touch my heart. ~

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

5 posted 2003-02-21 09:18 AM

Wonderful tribute to a mistress of words, beautifully said!

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

scorpio
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since 2002-10-02

Posts 5178
right...there

6 posted 2003-02-21 09:26 AM

Karilea...wonderfully and eloquently written...

believe in what your heart feels...

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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California

7 posted 2003-02-21 10:18 AM

Thank you, Karilea, for giving me a big smile this morning, and for waking the sun!

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

8 posted 2003-02-21 10:40 AM

Karilea - how sweet of you to write about our dearest Martie. She has been blessed with a talent to touch the heart with words. hugs to both of you, Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....

-Emily Dickinson

Goldboat
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since 2003-02-17

Posts 66

9 posted 2003-02-21 11:07 AM

Wonderfully poem!

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

10 posted 2003-02-21 01:44 PM

ahhhh Sunshine girl....you have captured Martie so very well....and this is such great writing....

Charisma

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since 2000-09-30

Posts 5906
lost in blue pages

11 posted 2003-02-21 04:44 PM

Truly a wonderful treasure you wrote here Karilea......

Charisma

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

12 posted 2003-02-21 05:51 PM

Beautifully penned and a splendid tribute to a wonderful poet and very dear friend.

The stars will shine when I am gone,
the earth will turn on as before,
the gulls, still race along the shore,
the morning star, still kiss the dawn

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

13 posted 2003-02-21 07:06 PM

Could not have done it better....in a month of Sundays....beautiful job KJ, and Martie...
you are most deserving of the kind words...

BTW...like the new pic!!!

lucky
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since 2000-01-17

Posts 1601
Idaho

14 posted 2003-02-22 01:56 PM

wishing you both the best from

Dale & Rosemary Gwaltney

two outstanding women

Speaking of ghosts, and after such an eternity. . .wouldn't you know, here comes mine again...
~Rosemary J. Gwaltney~

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