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There's this woman

she inspires magenta
and wears it well
and talks with her hands, even in text

she radiates peace
but not that fluffy
new-age
marshmallow peace

it's stone contentment
rock-solid, knowing
herself as its source and
its creation

she eases onto the stage
and takes it over
she eases into your dreams
and takes you over

she is a force of nature
the kind of nature that washes
over you with its beauty, then
drags you out behind the barn
for a smoke and a drink and a laugh

she is language
word simplicity
she is a haiku -- no,
she is a dramatic monologue that leaves them
laughing in the aisles

There's this woman
she is vital
she is creation
and she lets me breathe by being this woman
this woman I recognize inside
the woman that is me


Happy birthday, [livejournal.com profile] kightp! Love you lots.

Date: 2003-12-03 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com
Wow. Just ... wow.

Thank you, dear serene. I love you, too.

Date: 2003-12-03 07:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
How's your birthday so far, hon? Are you at work already? (I forget sometimes that when I'm getting ready for a coffee break, some people are just getting up.)

Date: 2003-12-03 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com
Just getting ready to leave the house. Ooops, like right now!

So far, so good: I'm not out of coffee.

Date: 2003-12-03 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
So far, so good: I'm not out of coffee.

That would be a great bumpersticker. :-)

Date: 2003-12-03 08:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com
Indeed it would! Pat, would you mind if I added it to my quote file?

Date: 2003-12-03 09:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com
*grin* I'd be honored.

Date: 2003-12-03 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klwalton.livejournal.com
Happy Birthday!!
(Serene, this is incredible!)

Date: 2003-12-03 09:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com
Thank you. And isn't it just?

Date: 2003-12-03 10:06 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-08-05 06:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
I was just reading through all my poems (or the ones on LJ, anyway), and I'm having trouble even believing that this was almost six years ago. How the heck did that even happen?

Date: 2009-08-05 06:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com
Don't ask me - I'm still looking at December and kind of going "I'm gonna be 60." *blink* "Wait. Wasn't I just 14?"

(Thanks for reminding me of this poem, though. It still makes me swoon.)

Date: 2003-12-03 10:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juliansinger.livejournal.com
Wow. That's amazing. Wow.

(Also, happy birthday, Pat.)

Date: 2003-12-03 12:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ljgeoff.livejournal.com
Made me shiver, Serene. Loved it. Made me wanna hug you, and then hug Pat, and wish we could all go out and have a riotous good time.

Date: 2003-12-03 12:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
I'm So There!

Damn.

Date: 2003-12-03 02:19 pm (UTC)
kshandra: A cross-stitch sampler in a gilt frame, plainly stating "FUCK CANCER" (good)
From: [personal profile] kshandra
Anything I might have possibly thought of to include in a birthday wish for Pat has been so far outstripped by this I see no point in even trying.

*applause* That was marvelous, Serene.

Re: Damn.

Date: 2003-12-03 02:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
Thank you! You're very kind.

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