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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California 
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Pollinated Lily…oh lily I am stained burnt umber chin and cheek the color of a brick garnished from holding you too close you trick You quietly opened while I was gone and now your stamen has me absorbed too long such a pretty boy you dance with air and I yielded to touch of earth’s own dare (wanting to hear the drum of beginnings within your changing clinging life’s not sinning) is it? Stunned by the mirror you performed a trick of glaze touching me with your tendrils power powder amazed and it won’t come off this lust’s fragile but keeping too soon the fold of you will die or rot still I’ll remain with pale now unlikely hot |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Martie A delight to read. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
OMG...WOWSER Martie i have so missed reading you.  Mxx and i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas |
Yep...many's the one I wanted to watch unfold but was too late, or gone when it did. Enjoyed this write, my friend. Jimmy |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Womderful write dear Martie!!! Hugs~Nancy For it was not into my ear you whispered |
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Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Thank you Sy, Jimmy, Maree and Nancy!  Just a little explanation....in the flowershop I do deliveries to business lobbies. Each week I take new flowers and pick up old ones from the week before. It was the "week before" lilies that got me. The new arrangements of flowers, either have closed lilies or have the stamen picked off. Ouch! Anyway...I forgot this time how they are...and got pollinated by holding them too close to my face.  I hope that makes sense! ?[This message has been edited by Martie (03-16-2005 12:32 AM).] |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
geshundeight  what stunning imagery abloom, one could graft several analogies into this -- encore! |
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James_A_Fraser Senior Member
since 2003-09-03
Posts 972Out Making Anticlines |
When I saw the title I said ".....hmmm, where do I get in line to volunteer?".... But the poem itself -- there are so many underlying dimensions that it's easy to get caught up in them and miss the light-heartedness in the incident --this is funny stuff as well as packing a meaning. I can just see you trying to make your calls, with that smudge like wierd-colored printer's ink on your face.... how many times do I hafta tell ya... be a wet blanket like Jamie, don't stop and smell the flowers! ~~J |
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Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
and it won’t come off this lust’s fragile ~*~ Sometimes the stain is meant to be... and no amount of wishing it away will ever make it leave our soul... |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
lol... makes perfect sense to me as I did the same thing about a month ago with lilies that were sent to me.  "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
I learned from experience to break the stamins off a long time ago, but have worn the lily's lovely stain myself. I could not tell of it as you do - which I enjoyed as usual Martie. |
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saved_by_grace Member
since 2005-01-08
Posts 332In the arms of God... |
Loved this, Martie! ..m'friend!!Becka |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Lovely, Martie. |
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Goldenrose Member Elite
since 2003-05-30
Posts 3665 |
Very nice and a snapshot of a story of your everyday life...thank you martie... Goldenrose. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. (William Shakespeare.) |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
the color of the crayon I would never use... love the new pic too |
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ice Member Elite
since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404Pennsylvania |
Sages and ancients Say that women and flowers Contain all beauty This poem statement proves this Beautiful picture and words ____________ice ><> |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
lil neighbor I wonder about your eyes sometimes do you little girl turn each petal over to see the other side me thinks you do with loving eyes enjoyed you here |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
I am stained burnt umber ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ such a pretty boy you dance with air and I yielded to touch of earth’s own dare ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ touching me with your tendrils power powder amazed this lust’s fragile but keeping ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ so many lines in this to admire...most of all the essence of you in the inspire. lovely and delightful.. the lily and the poet. one drop, an ocean ... one seed, the forest ... one leaf, the wind ... |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
" (wanting to hear the drum of beginnings within your changing clinging life’s not sinning) is it?" How could it be? *smile* |
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Goodknight Member Elite
since 2002-06-15
Posts 2386Ohio, USA |
great poem Martie - I have had that pollinated look myself a time or two or more - getting too close to smell the fragrance - loved this - Paul |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Wonderful write Martie. hugs, Chris "The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze." |
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