Thankful for the music I see, with my bare unlidded eyes.
Thankful for the poetry I hear, and the colors the jealous can’t hear.
Thankful for the powers that be and for the unhaunted quiet of nothingness.
Thankful for my memory intact, may I always be true to my maidenhood.
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Happy, happy glowing fire! Fragrant air! Delicious light! Let me to my gloom retire! I to green-weed rivers bright!*
Happy, happy glowing life! Dazzling like a rose on a briar that lets the air transport her essence and captivates the bees to bide.
©️ selmamartin October 2024
*Song of Four Faeries ~ John Keats
Featured image: Thankful to have arrived at another birthday – photo by selma
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“Over the hill and over the dale,
And over the bourne to Dawlish,
Where ginger-bread wives have a scanty sale,
And gingerbread nuts are smallish.”
~ John Keats.
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I’m over the hill and feel like a kid,
Waking up on Christmas morning
To a dream I once dreamt, cleaved to my eyelid,
Now melting me with heartwarming.
~ ©️ selmamartin Oct. 2024
I wish you miracles
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Is today your birthday!? Happiest of birthdays to you!🎂
It is my birthday. Yay! Thanks Melissa. I wish YOU miracles 😉
Happy Happy Happy Birthday, Selma! I hope you’ll truly enjoy it to the fullest!
Aww, trE. Thanks so much. Very much. I’ll be sure I do—enjoy it.
And happy launch 🚀 tomorrow. Blessings. 👏🏽
I wish YOU miracles. 🤗
Thank you kindly! I’m ready for tomorrow to be over and done.
And you’re welcome! 🙏🏾🩵
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Many many happy returns of the day 🥳🎈, Selma! I wish you a good health 🙏!
Oh Raj. What a beautiful message. Thanks so much dear friend. I wish you good health and miracles. 🤗
Good, Selma my dear 💐! Iam so …so happy! You make my day. God bless you 🙏🙋
Bless you always, Raj 🤗
Wish you a very happy birthday, Selma!
You are sweet, Shweta. Thanks for this. I wish you miracles.
You’re most welcome. That’s sweet of you. I wish you miracles too
Happy birthday, Selma 🎉
best wishes and richest blessings your way 🤍🙏
Means the world to me dear Destiny. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. I bless you and wish you miracles. 🤗 🍰 🎉
This is fabulous, Selma! How soon until your sweet grand baby arrives?
Three weeks could turn into tomorrow. Right? That’s
how close 🥹
Thanks dearly Colleen. 🤗
I’m so excited for you. Make sure and let us know. ❤️
I melt a little by the hour. 🍫 like chocolate in the sun.
God is good! Happy Birthday Selma!
Good is our God 👏🏽 Thanks so much, Belladonna 🤗
You’ve arrived most beautifully! Happy birthday sweet Selma and may all of the kindness, generosity, and talent you share surround you for many more! 💖
Aww. Just so happy to have arrived. Thanks, sweet Michele Lee. Abundant blessings…
Every day is indeed a gift. Thank you, poetess! ✨
A very Happy Birthday Selma ❤️🤗
So happy to be here, Maggie. Bless you.
Hope you had the best of days Selma 🎉
Happy Birthday, Selma! Wishing you blessings, good health, and happiness. May you celebrate many more. 🎉🎊🎂
Aww, Edward. Thanks for all that. I know it’s sincere. I bless you and wish you miracles.
•about the avocados, we don’t get a chill in my area until around the end of December. So the plants are still outside. And thriving. We getting lots of rain
I hope yours are doing well too. All the best.
You’re very welcome, Selma. It’s great that you can keep your avocados outside for most of the year. Mine are progressing slowly. I hope you had a great day yesterday, and thank you for your good wishes.
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Thankful for your beautiful thoughts.
Thanks so much for appreciating Diana. Sending hugs.
Happy Birthday Selma! May there be many more happy ones. (K)
I say Amen to that. I want to be here a long time. Thanks so much, K 🤗
Lovely post, Selma! Wishing you the best birthday ever! xo
You’re sweet dear Lauren. All the great wishes sent in my direction made it spectacular.
Never mind the rain, I floated over that all day.
Thanks for being here my friend. I bless you.
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happiest of birthdays, Selma and cheers to your lovely poem so beautiful like you my friend.
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Bless your kind heart, Cindy.
And congratulations. So happy for you. The cover is gorgeous.