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Martie

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0 posted 2003-09-10 09:50 PM

   Who Can Fasten the Meaning of Time?

I thought I knew the secret of time
when I saw it falling down the ridge
carrying Michelle’s ashes with the color of fall.
I thought I knew a lot of things
standing on that ridge, as if on the edge
of time itself.  I could feel all those sweet memories, like the soft veil of fog
that touched the edge of vision,
cool against my face and knew
that the summer was gone like lace curtains
open through the night,
and I thought that this minute
was all I had, but I was wrong.

Now I know that time is more complicated
then I ever knew.  I have been taken in by it,
as if it was something steady
that would always be true,
but it moves in me
in ways that frighten and delight,
back to places never been,
even into someone else’s night.

Time has moved too fast
to fasten the meaning
of a look of love, too fast
to be sure that tomorrow
would be a place that look would endure,
and it has stopped while I sent my spirit soaring
and patiently waited while I watched
the beauty of touching another’s glory,
then ticked so quickly by the dreams of night
while slowly keeping those
that sleep would not become.

I thought I knew the secret of time
but I do not,
each day mocks me with a different clock
and given joy and fear and love,
is ever changing and widening the view.

Time takes this day, Sept 11,
and brings it back to clear
the falling of what was into chaos tears and fear,
and though two years have passed
the ground is fresh,
with the fragile bones of life
that felt the blast of time that will forever stay
in memory, in color flashed,
time can erase some things, but never that.

[This message has been edited by Martie (09-11-2003 07:16 PM).]

vlraynes
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1 posted 2003-09-10 09:55 PM

Oh my...

No, Martie...never that. This just weeps...
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
--Mother Teresa

ThisDiamond
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2 posted 2003-09-10 09:57 PM

Oh my dear,
How well you have spoken of this intangible and soul based ache.
There are these blessings that come to us, and hover until we can embrace them...and for that fragment, our path is to love and learn.
Always so impressed by you. TD

ThisDiamond
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3 posted 2003-09-10 09:58 PM

Oh my dear,
How well you have spoken of this intangible and soul based ache.
I believe there are these blessings that come to us, and hover until we can embrace them...and for that fragment, our path is to love and learn.
Always so impressed by you. TD

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4 posted 2003-09-10 09:59 PM

"Time takes this day of memory and brings it back to clear
the falling of what was into chaos tears and fear,
and though two years have passed the ground is fresh,
the memory dear, of the fragile bones of life
that felt the blast of time that will forever stay
in memory, in color flashed,
time can erase some things, but never that."

There are times when we wish we could make time stand still...
and other times when....
Michelle will never ever be forgotten...never.
~Heart Hugs, Nancy~

[This message has been edited by Enchantress (09-10-2003 10:00 PM).]

angelblueyes
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5 posted 2003-09-10 10:05 PM

You've penned this well.

Crystal

Paul Wilson

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6 posted 2003-09-10 10:15 PM

Martie...Your heart bleds such tender words.Thanks for sharing your heart with us...Paul
~~
Time may slip past the clocks chime and disappear
but those memories you forever hold near and dear.

"To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you"

icebox
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7 posted 2003-09-10 10:30 PM

You have learned much, Grasshopper.

All lessons are valuable, some are painful. Thank you for sharing this here.

Janet Marie
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8 posted 2003-09-11 12:06 PM

Who can Fasten the Meaning of Time?
=========================

you can...you just did with this exceptional write of truth.
I lack the words...but am always grateful you dont when pen and muse infuse.

"When your own emptiness is all thats gettin thru
there comes a point when youre not sure why youre still talking
I passed that point long ago"

Dark Angel
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9 posted 2003-09-11 06:51 AM

speechless

keeping it

and a

Maree.

fate is not just
whose cooking smells good
but which way the wind blows

(Ani DiFranco)

Marge Tindal

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10 posted 2003-09-11 08:43 AM

MartieSis~
That time could hold such fragility
and yet such strength
in the same hands-of-sweep
is reason enough for these tears we weep~

This is beautiful ... you are beautiful~
I love you~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram
noles1@totcon.com

Cpat Hair

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11 posted 2003-09-11 08:56 AM

speachless...

not often..but am after reading this..

Goodknight
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12 posted 2003-09-11 09:14 AM

you paint time and how it touches us and has touched us - it takes my breat away as I read how well you write this - paul

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13 posted 2003-09-11 09:16 AM

Wonderful poem Martie. Who Can Fasten the Meaning of Time? All who remember. I really liked this piece. It did not blare or rehash history as so many poems about 9/11 do...instead it was a slow introduction with a reserved glimpse of insight seated right at the end. This made it special. Thank-you ever so much.

suthern

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14 posted 2003-09-11 11:36 AM

Time has moved too fast
to fasten the meaning
of a look of love, too fast
to be sure that tomorrow
would be a place that look would endure,
and it has stopped while I sent my spirit soaring
and patiently waited while I watched
the beauty of touching another’s glory,

The ending left me in speechless agreement... but then the beauty of these lines called me back... This is magnificent, Martie.

Seymour Tabin
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15 posted 2003-09-11 11:44 AM

Martie
You are a master at knitting symbols and this one is a shawl.

Greeneyes

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16 posted 2003-09-11 12:14 PM

peaceful thoughts....haunting....heart hugssss
Lauren~

The way you move me
I walk with your shadow
With your silhouette
Leave the light on
It always comes
Back to you

BluesSerenade
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17 posted 2003-09-11 12:15 PM

Martie...This is a precious gift, and reminder of those days that will live in our hearts forever. You never miss a beat dear lady. I know this may sound cliche, but your poem rings with love and truth, like whom the bell tolls for that comforts us all.

Mistletoe Angel

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18 posted 2003-09-11 05:08 PM

(big hugggssssssss) God Bless You, dearest friend, my heart feels your tears for your loss and for the many others of 9/11 and though it truly is a rhetorical question I feel, I know there will come much comfort and blessings for you and take to heart always Michelle will always love you and guide you from above, as she will always be your little girl who loves you! (wipes tears) We all are here for you and send angel hugs your way and to the world, 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

I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sun set and I perceive

***Live***

Sunshine

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19 posted 2003-09-11 05:10 PM

Time has moved too fast
to fasten the meaning
of a look of love, too fast
to be sure that tomorrow
would be a place that look would endure,
and it has stopped while I sent my spirit soaring
and patiently waited while I watched
the beauty of touching another’s glory,
then ticked so quickly by the dreams of night
while slowly keeping those
that sleep would not become.

~*~

These are the keeper thoughts...
and the binds that tie.

James_A_Fraser
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20 posted 2003-09-11 07:00 PM

Only you could take three themes that seem to be so different, and weave them into a single cloth.

It's time for each of those feelings, time for our lives to be affected by such things. You've shown us that in reality those things are all part of the same pattern of life, a pattern that may be changed now, but goes on and on just as before.

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21 posted 2003-09-11 08:55 PM

Who can fasten? You can make it hold still if anyone can.... Your poetry gets deeper and deeper, and more beautiful as it goes. See, time has an effect on you, too -- a good one!

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