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Martie

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0 posted 2002-12-28 11:53 PM

Seeking the Fickle Click

I had been seeking the fickle click
the one that distributes the years
for I had rubbed out time
again and again
let it walk by me as I pretended
not to
gathering splinters as I held on to it
wishing it to stop pestering my skin
stop all those balloons
that float around me
and demand I count each one.

I had listened to my dear heart
wish around corners
skip all the cracks in sidewalks
climb the brown satin trunk of a manzanita
and hold there a leaf past time.

You know what I’m talking about
yes this walk into the park
where all the games run bases
and fall through circles onto the pavement
to bounce bubbles into the silk sky
and another one has past
and who has written the reason
with some chalk across my driveway?

There are reasons somewhere I know
for I wrote them myself once
and put them somewhere safe
I think beneath my thick skin
or nestled in that cardboard box
where lucky keeps his heart safe

And here I was with my big hands
trying to push away destiny
and searching my circumference for importance
and laughing at my own folly
and then I got down on my knees
looking for my spent tear
and found one Johnny jump up
growing in the crack of the cement
and coloring my eye with
the perfection of a minute

and for one of them I understood
----
11-00

[This message has been edited by Martie (12-28-2002 11:54 PM).]

neveah5
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since 2002-11-22

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1 posted 2002-12-28 11:57 PM

I like this
quite interesting

Magnus

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South Carolina, USA

2 posted 2002-12-29 12:16 PM

Paint it again....go ahead...I know that
it will look slightly different, though
just as beautiful...

passing shadows
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3 posted 2002-12-29 01:46 AM

Martie, there is such a way about your writing that I cannot put into words...but know I love it

Dark Angel
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4 posted 2002-12-29 05:27 PM

you m'dear are incredible.

adding this one to my library

Maree

Nightshade

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just out of reach

5 posted 2002-12-29 05:30 PM

Martie - geesh, between you and Sunshine - I am in awe to-day - once again. Where oh where is my playful muse? This is simply wonderful sweet lady. hugs, Chris

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

-Emily Dickinson

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

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Florida, USA

6 posted 2002-12-29 05:51 PM

Martie, I love that title...

As well as the poem....

"Love makes the world go around"
~~with love and hugs from Ethel~~

Mistletoe Angel

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7 posted 2002-12-30 05:11 PM

(smiles) Yay! Oh Martie, this is sooooooo beautiful, sweet friend, you always write so wonderfully and bring smiles to all our hearts! (kiss on cheek) God Bless You, 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

"Underneath your clothes there's an endless story..."

Shakira

Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

Posts 3953
By the sea

8 posted 2002-12-30 05:39 PM

Did ya find it?

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

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

9 posted 2002-12-30 05:41 PM

Johnny jumped up and
kissed me again...

I remember this from then
and hugging you again

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

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Louisiana

10 posted 2002-12-31 12:06 PM

I love this, Martie... such moments do make all the difference. *S*

Sandpiper
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land of flora and fauna

11 posted 2003-01-01 08:27 AM

"and searching my circumference for importance".....an incredible line!!!

..and it's when we gather all those "minutes" in time that some things, not all, but some things begin to make sense--I'm glad I did not see this until today, a perfect read for the New Year--APPLAUSE!!

"And it was at that age...Poetry arrived in search of me...And something started in my soul."
Pablo Neruda

regards2you
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California

12 posted 2003-01-01 10:51 AM

Martie,

Loved this for all the depth in it.

Especially like:

"the perfection of a minute
and for one of them
I understood"

Those flashes are which keep us going, I think....at least me...Thank you for this. Enjoyed much.

..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons..
"Desiderata"

Nan

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13 posted 2003-01-01 10:48 PM

I'd like to click a fickle too... Can I join?...

Goodknight
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Ohio, USA

14 posted 2003-01-02 01:36 PM

Martie - well here you go again taking me on one of those journeys that surrounds my heart with sighs - Paul

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