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Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

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0 posted 2003-10-28 11:04 AM

Ash On The Mountain

tiny ashes raining down,
returning to the world now
after the fate that took them up,
made them something more,
let them bloom in beauty
if only for a while

reduced now to a dry mist
they settle on the mountainside
so thin, so small, helpless
compared to the weight of it
and the weight of life,
the beauty that they carried
if only for a while

new life will grow here,
a mother’s angel child dance
along these paths unknowing
that the flowers careless in her hand
sprang from the ash of other flowers
carried to another mother,
and they brought her joy
if only for a while

[This message has been edited by Ratleader (10-28-2003 11:07 AM).]

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
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1 posted 2003-10-28 11:06 AM

For Martie of course, on this day of days.

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Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2003-10-28 11:08 AM

new life will grow here,
a mother’s angel child dance
along these paths unknowing
that the flowers careless in her hand
sprang from the ash of other flowers
carried to another mother,
and they brought her joy
if only for a while

~*~

Can beauty be found
in a heartache?
When delivered this tenderly,
yes.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

3 posted 2003-10-28 11:10 AM

I knew as soon as I saw the title...

bittersweetly beautiful...the poem...and your reasons of inspire.

Very sweet Ed.

Martie...

You're the color of the sky reflected in each store-front window pane ...
You're the whispering and the sighing of my tires in the rain.

J. Browne

Martie

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California

4 posted 2003-10-28 11:22 AM

Thank you, Ed.

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

5 posted 2003-10-28 11:23 AM

I fought back tears while reading Martie's... I lost the battle reading this beautiful write of love everlasting...

dingusjr
Member

since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

6 posted 2003-10-28 11:29 AM

Just beautiful, Ed...just beautiful.
Larry

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

7 posted 2003-10-28 11:47 AM

new life will grow here,
a mother’s angel child dance
along these paths unknowing
that the flowers careless in her hand
sprang from the ash of other flowers
carried to another mother,
and they brought her joy
if only for a while

Very, very beautiful, Ed

MARK V SHELDON
Member Elite

since 2001-06-21

Posts 3015
In a corporeal internship...

8 posted 2003-10-28 06:02 PM

Ed, this is serenity incarnate. You have done well to transform tragedy into inspire... not easy when a smokey haze surrounds every street outside right now...

-MVS

You CAN make a difference:
http://educate-yourself.org/

SEA

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since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

9 posted 2003-10-28 06:37 PM

aha...but this is perfect

Martie

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California

10 posted 2003-10-28 11:10 PM

another hug for this, my friend!

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

11 posted 2003-10-29 12:12 PM

Good God Ed the flowers got me at the end . . .

praying all is well there
xxoo

Ericc
Member Elite

since 2003-01-31

Posts 4178

12 posted 2003-10-29 01:08 PM

Always an amazing journey your words take me on.
Eric

Magicmystery
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since 2002-02-13

Posts 821
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

13 posted 2003-10-29 01:41 PM

Such a heartfelt comfort to read.

Martie, I pray all is well with you.

Sherry

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

14 posted 2003-10-29 05:09 PM

Lovely. Life out of ashes.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

15 posted 2003-10-30 10:14 PM

So very touching....heart hugs for both you and Martie.....
Lauren~

Will the wind ever remember the names
it has blown in the past with
its crutch its old age and its widsom
it whispers no this won't be the last

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

16 posted 2003-10-30 11:52 PM

you always amaze Ed..great work

Gentle Spirit
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17 posted 2003-10-31 02:26 PM

this tugs on the strings of my heart, what a lovely gifting to Martie....

Midnitesun

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Gaia

18 posted 2003-10-31 02:29 PM

so many interpretations from this write, which is splendid, beautiful,
as are the ashes that lay themselves down much as the phoenix, promising a rebirth

pandonov
Member

since 2003-10-03

Posts 478
b/w conscience and insolence

19 posted 2003-10-31 03:19 PM

thank you for all your great replies, i'm truely grateful, for you making me feel like i might have a grain of.. talent...(no other weaker word come to mind)

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

20 posted 2003-10-31 03:29 PM

Ed~
YOU are a sweetheart of a friend~
This is a beautiful *gifting*, from friend to friend~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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