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Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

0 posted 2004-02-14 11:08 AM

I found it after years,
I saw how it was stamped
with so many colors and words.

A piece of tape mends a tear,
the paper now thinning is almost transparent,
one sticker hanging on by a corner
says love.

This envelope was sent
many times across the miles
and now it is ripped and torn,
slit with a perfect pointed opener.

Return to sender,
I see in bold black letters.
No longer at this address, I read.
Once it was perfumed
with a tinge of innocent gardenia
and a SWAK in red with blotted pink lips.
Now it smells like the dust of old books
in a second hand store.

There were flower stamps
and stickers with smiley faces,
on the outside barely visible
worn by time’s ink fade I read
I love you in a child’s tortured print.

I found it pressed in a dictionary,
one of those big ones from the library
that you can’t move,
stationary with the weight of words.

Now it is fat and full,
it is so heavy with feeling that it falls
and opens on the hardwood floor of time
and all those words
just roll towards me like colored marbles.
----
thank you for reading another repost and for the loving support through the years of February.

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2004-02-14 11:14 AM

Martie
It is a repost I never read and glad I did.
It is elegant.

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

2 posted 2004-02-14 11:15 AM

Oh, dearest Martie, what a sensitive, beautiful, touching write!
My heart is touched deeply.
I think this is one of those poems that just are recorded in images and sounds instantly in the heart of the reader.
Love and hugs. Margherita

Goodknight
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since 2002-06-15

Posts 2386
Ohio, USA

3 posted 2004-02-14 01:57 PM

Martie - you speak deeply and touch deeply with this - it is a very well done touch - Paul

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2004-02-14 01:59 PM

Hugging you tightly ~

  ~ Whatever our souls are made of,
      his and mine are the same. ~

Richy
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

5 posted 2004-02-14 06:23 PM

Some things,
are just never meant to leave us,

and never do...

Beautiful Martie!

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

6 posted 2004-02-14 06:29 PM

it is so heavy with feeling that it falls
and opens on the hardwood floor of time
and all those words
just roll towards me like colored marbles.

A very touching write indeed Martie.
hugs, Chris

Youngatheart
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since 2003-12-30

Posts 333

7 posted 2004-02-14 06:34 PM

Oh, Martie, what a sensitive touching poem.
Well crafted. {{{{{Martie}}}}} Youngatheart

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