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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2003-12-15 09:23 PM

Listen this gentle house

Filled

The tile rings of wear
and surfaces ask repair

How the years have told
the children ringing still
down the hall across the floor
the laughter then the slam of door

Gone   gone

Watch the wooden chair rock
when I was just a lass of three
and my father’s lap was part of me
now it is filled with ghosts
remote and dusty

Feel the living room music
the rug rolled back
and socks on like skates
across the dip and swirl
of late I’ve missed the hold me close
and the songs within my gate

Songs ring me still   its true
and yet I love the love  the you
that fills this place
the embrace is here of years
and gentle house you keep the leak
pushing out the old and torn of wear
and the rain though falling
falls elsewhere

Listen this gentle house

Filled

wintertao
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 366
Okaloosa Island, FL

1 posted 2003-12-15 09:24 PM

excellent! loved this creative pen, well done

Greeneyes

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since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

2 posted 2003-12-15 09:26 PM

Martie~

so tender the sound....hugssss
Lauren~

~~**~~**~~**~~**~~
May the miracle of
Christmas touch your
life with special blessing

H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S

Antonio_L
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since 2003-12-01

Posts 110
NorthEast USA

3 posted 2003-12-15 09:30 PM

I'm a sucker for writes like this Martie and this was pretty special.

Thanks,

Tony.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2003-12-15 09:38 PM

Beautiful dear Martie..simply beautiful.
Hugs~

~Let peace begin with me...

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

5 posted 2003-12-15 09:42 PM

Martie, it seemed that I heard the whispers of love.....
and they were beautiful.
Hugs, sweet lady

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

6 posted 2003-12-15 10:17 PM

No one else brings smiles through tears as well as you sweet Martie. This is a wonderful piece. hugs to you, Chris

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
-Plato

[This message has been edited by Nightshade (12-15-2003 10:18 PM).]

BluesSerenade
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since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

7 posted 2003-12-15 10:35 PM

Feel the living room music
the rug rolled back
and socks on like skates
across the dip and swirl
of late I’ve missed the hold me close
and the songs within my gate

This reminds me of dancing with my Dad
in the living room on any given day.
He used to tell me,  when holding me close
that it was the best picture he had of me, being blind and all!  I miss the sound of his laughter so much and how we chuckled at the length of my skirt and all those times I stepped on his toes.

I want to thank you for triggering so many days gone by,  but in reality those are my favorite memeories and they will never die.  I really do love the way you write.

Hugs Dear Marite~

Martie

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California

8 posted 2003-12-15 10:42 PM

Lori...Having a dad that was blind, helped you to see better I think...thank you.

Lauren...I'm glad you could hear it, but not a bit surprised.

Tony...Yes, I've seen that in some of your writing..thank you.

Nancy...Thank you for the beautiful, beautiful.

Ethel...yes, love!

Chris..Smiles through tears is how I felt when I wrote this...thank you!

Wintertao...Thank you for reading my poem...I'll look for your poetry as well.

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

9 posted 2003-12-15 11:05 PM

Such a gentle lovesong you do sing. You find the love in little things, the permanence in the very impermanence that others would -- that I would -- miss completely.

Thank you for the lesson in seeing love.

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Tim
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since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

10 posted 2003-12-15 11:06 PM

very nice flower lady.

Janet Marie
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Posts 18554

11 posted 2003-12-15 11:34 PM

across the dip and swirl
of late I’ve missed the hold me close
========================

oh how I love how you do this

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

12 posted 2003-12-16 03:39 AM

glad I listened

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

13 posted 2003-12-16 05:25 PM

This is so very lovely. *S*

Goodknight
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since 2002-06-15

Posts 2386
Ohio, USA

14 posted 2003-12-16 05:32 PM

wonderful song of home Martie - I am glad your muse returned and it returns with all the glory of all your poetry - Paul

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

15 posted 2003-12-16 06:03 PM

This wonderful house
readying itself
for the season
of little feet...

Suetang
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since 2001-03-07

Posts 5187
Melbourne, Australia

16 posted 2003-12-16 09:34 PM

Hello Martie

Thank you so much for taking us on a wonderful journey, it was so very much enjoyed. I wish you much love and happiness throughout Christmas and the New Year.

Take care........Sue

I am in motion
I am blue
Love is an ocean
I'm anchored in you
- Shawn Mullins

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

17 posted 2003-12-16 09:49 PM

MartieSis~
You know ... just know how this one speaks to my heart~

filled ... yes, just that~
*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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