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A Birthday Wish

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I wish Neruda's fiery blood
flowed hell-bent through these veins,
Or Emily's touch on fingertips
could fondly trace your name.

For lines that echo tempered thoughts
when forged by calloused hands
do not express the urgency
by which my meaning stands.

Within this grist of wheat and chaff
I mill no holly-tree.*
I have no Drummond's sentiment,
No torn soliloquy.

And so on this poetic day
no pen can etch through stone
that can express in simple verse
the friendship you have shown.

Another birthday poem

 What Is Mariza? by Aesthete2000




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Happy Birthday Mariza. I'm sorry I don't have poetic words to express my gratitude for your friendship, but thank you!

*In Emily Bronte's poem, "Love And Friendship" she equates friendship to a holly-tree.

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  • nilav
    August 3

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    it says 'a true friend is a brother or a sister God has forgotten to give us'...so blessed with such a friendship here...


  • catz Moderators member
    July 30

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    This is lovely, Yem I know Mari must love it. You two are so very fortunate to share such a beautiful friendship


    Dee


  • emerald-gaze silver member
    July 27
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    what is the deal with all the spacing? so annoying

    • Yemassee silver member
      July 27
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      What? You don't like them? They'll be all the rage by this time next month and then you'll be asking me why I too don't add spaces to all my poems.

      My readers have become too lazy so this is just a little exercise for them.

  • Melodies silver member
    July 20

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    A seriously beautiful poem for Mariza, and I wish I might have known about the blessed day, for I do love to write birthday poems and would have done so and wished for a day when all the snakes slithered away instead of biting.

    It's your day, for heaven's sake!
    I'm sending you a birthday snake.
    He'll arrive there at your door
    and invite one hundred more.

    lol and etc.

    Your poem has inspired me, oh great Yemessee, for it is splendid and filled with good humor.


  • bozoloper
    July 16

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    Happy Birthday Mariza! You have always left such thoughtful comments on my pieces, you do things with the english language that native speakers can not, hope you have a great special day!

  • fathom me
    July 15

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    Hey Yem, on her birthday's account your softer sensitive side has peeked up.. as humble and pleasant as Mari's I feel.. Just love the way you guys "type talk" (Mariza laughs at my "new word").. Keep writing


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    July 14

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    Coming back for another look, for I also missed
    commenting on the compelling illustration.
    It draws one in, as does the subject of the work.

    "...a tad cold now." Smiling!

    This needs more bravos,

    Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!



  • emerald-gaze silver member
    July 14

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    Reading it again
    When you say you have no Drummond's sentiment, well, I'm glad you don't after all the poet is dead and his sentiment must be a tad cold now.
    You have your own, and it fills all the barrels.
    I forgot to mention early that I loved the graphic, night, water and moon, three of my favourite images.
    Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this lovely gift


  • klassy lassy
    July 14

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    ...a rose is a rose is a rose, just for the sake of beauty, and you offer this one with no thorns. Breathtaking and lovely, my friend, the pathway of your thought.

  • tara wilson gold member
    July 14

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    I love this! What a beautiful birthday poem, I esp. love the first stanza...I often wish I had Neruda's fiery blood, too, I would write Mari a beautiful poem like this as well...

    happy birthday, Mari


  • MariGoes gold member
    July 14

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    The title alone is already very poetic!!
    I have a big smile here reading your poem. You don't need to have any poets blood or touch to make me smile.
    I'm grateful to have your friendship in return, and for your endless patience with me and my moods. You do realize that the older I get the worse my mood becomes, and the harder will get for you to endure IT

    I'm very grateful for your support, friendship, 'stop alerts' when I start to boil, laughter and most of all for your loving care.
    Thank you Mayne


  • Aesthete2000 gold member
    July 14
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    But 'tis Yemassee blood
    that courses through the veins,
    Yemassee words that yearn
    to express the love of friendship
    in manner incomparable
    to the honored recipient!

    Urgency well expressed.

    Bravo!

    M-C


  • hugh wyles silver member
    July 14

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    If we could find the words to say
    how much friends mean to us;
    how they are there, by night and day -
    no brouhaha or fuss.

    But I have neither art nor wit
    enough to fill this place
    with words sufficiently to fit
    where you have left some space.

    First thing tomorrow you'll have seen
    my insufficient note
    to Mari, our Brazilian Queen
    to whom el padre I have been
    since first the day we wrote.

    And what I've tried so hard to say
    like you, is: HAVE A HAPPY DAY!

    Applause for your poetic missive.
    El Padre, July 12.2008 (NZT)

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