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Martie

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0 posted 2004-07-28 10:15 PM

From the Swirl of Thought Beneath the Sheets

Do you remember what midnight said
all up lit the moon almost
in the slow steady stealth of leaves
couldn’t believe
the opening of gates and windows
and all the pretty songs
sniff sniffing along the path
behind the bush a majesty so small
there were pearls that were rocks before
and the road across the pond was held still
by the grace of sleeping fish

I saw this from the swirl of thought beneath the sheets
where my wept and worried grief of living keeps

We were all wrapped up
in the color that crossed the room
when the drizzle of some madness took me
to see what dark of sky was for
around the bend of canopy candle lit still
like mosquito netting the smoke I blew
and unlit the thing that was weaving motion
and opened the door alive alight with focus
left for just this sweet of me all open can’t you  see
and some how for one moment     I was free

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1 posted 2004-07-28 10:39 PM

That moment....can be years or nanoseconds, because in that encompassing dark, time is irrelevant.

Well done, Martie. Well done indeed!

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Enchantress
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Canada eh.

2 posted 2004-07-28 10:41 PM

Fantastic write dear Martie...
One day I wish to write as well as you.
Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain ~

Nightshade

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just out of reach

3 posted 2004-07-28 10:58 PM

Simply awesome Martie. hugs, Chris

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Anderson

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4 posted 2004-07-28 11:22 PM

Brilliant visions of thought captured...I love it...

Kahlil
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5 posted 2004-07-29 12:51 PM

swirl of thought where there's no time...
incredibly depicted thought swirl...
love this, Martie...keeping it.

Susan
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6 posted 2004-07-29 12:55 PM

Very nice. And there is something about this line that I find really appealing . . .

by the grace of sleeping fish

that is just cool.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

iliana
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7 posted 2004-07-29 01:25 AM

Martie, I started to pull out my favorite lines, but found that I would be pulling the entire poem. This was just plain ole exceptional!

.....jo

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8 posted 2004-07-29 04:54 AM

Absolutely marvelous Martie.

it's a keeper m'friend.

Mxx

The clouds never expect it when it rains, but the sea, changes colour, but the sea, does not change.
~Stevie Nicks~

Susan Caldwell
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9 posted 2004-07-29 05:14 AM

Magical.

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

LeeJ
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10 posted 2004-07-29 07:43 AM

when I read you, it is like reading some greatness that is yet to be discovered...there are so many miracles in such small things, that we've chose to ignore at times. Just goes to show, how every moment is so precious, how in preperation, we recognize those hidden secrets of the personal character of each moment.

Love you and many thanks

Lee J.

Seymour Tabin
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11 posted 2004-07-29 07:54 AM

Martie
Your drumsticks beat the echoes of my march.

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12 posted 2004-07-29 08:03 AM

always my friend.. always you touch..

Dark Stranger
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13 posted 2004-07-29 08:16 AM

freedom is a feather
without the eagle
or the wind

enjoyed this art ms martie

icebox
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14 posted 2004-07-29 09:42 AM

"there were pearls that were rocks before"

the pearls still are there. they just hide as rocks.

*smile*

Sunshine

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15 posted 2004-07-29 11:37 AM

Do you remember what midnight said {?}

I was free

~*~

Someday, my dear friend,
you must teach me how to write a killer
starting line,
and end it up with the promise of love,
and hope....

and all of the inbetween, as well....

Do you have any idea how much
I want to hold your book?

I'll bet there'll be some dittoes....

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16 posted 2004-07-29 11:38 AM

and all I can do is smile...
damn yer good Martie...

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17 posted 2004-07-29 02:55 PM

Wonderful, Martie! Simply wonderful!

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18 posted 2004-07-30 10:03 AM

Oh Martie - I do not wish to write like you as I know that isn't possible but I do wish for moments when I see as you see and feel as you feel and hear as you hear - thanks for images I just don't see until you show them to me - Paul

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19 posted 2004-07-30 10:40 AM

nice read

JL
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20 posted 2004-07-30 10:45 AM

“opened the door alive alight with focus
left for just this sweet of me all open can’t you  see
and some how for one moment     I was free”

Truly tantalizing read!  Enjoyed!!

JL

She said: ”You look cute in the dark.”

Marge Tindal

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21 posted 2004-07-30 11:55 AM

MartieSis~

'We were all wrapped up
in the color that crossed the room'

Kaleidoscopic word-swirl ... yes~

You are the magic of Martiesque~

Big *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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22 posted 2004-07-30 09:29 PM

I saw this from the swirl of thought beneath the sheets
where my wept and worried grief of living keeps

We were all wrapped up
in the color that crossed the room
when the drizzle of some madness took me
to see what dark of sky was for
around the bend of canopy candle lit still
like mosquito netting the smoke I blew
and unlit the thing that was weaving motion
and opened the door alive alight with focus
left for just this sweet of me all open can’t you see
and some how for one moment I was free

==========================================

*shaking me mothy head*
amazing purge and personify....
no one writes like this.......but you.

I would love to live as a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

~Fluent~
John O'Donohue

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