Mother – Another Fearless Year

May 7, 2021

Occasional Verse with Paint Chips

I know that last week I said we might do a second entry from the P section of the poetry dictionary, but I decided to go backwards instead, back to the O section. It’s the Friday before Mother’s Day—at least it is in the United...

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October 27, 2018

My Mother Dear

I buried my mother in my journal in red ink with large angry letters that accused her of dying on purpose just to spite me I buried my mother in the Firehole River at Yellowstone among the towering green trees with eagles soaring above leaving...

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April 4, 2016

I Never Said Goodbye

January is the cruelest month despite it’s shimmer of hope It’s when cancer took you I was twenty-three Hadn’t yet made amends for the pain I caused you Still drowning in my own Your death only added to the shame of not measuring up ________________________________ This quadrille...

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February 17, 2014

Unheard – A Sedoka (Sort of)

The deafening sound of a cry unheard, silenced ‘ere it had a chance at life Echoes whispering in a mother’s heart and soul aching to hear what’s unheard * * * * * 2/25/14 Update: Shared this for dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night today...

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January 3, 2012

Twenty-Four Years – A Poem

January 3, 1988 is the day my mom died. It’s been 24 years today. At the dVerse Poets Pub today, Brian says there is a poem in everything. Perhaps there is a poem in this. Twenty-Four Years We knew it was coming the diagnosis was...

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Another Fearless Year

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Occasional Verse with Paint Chips

My Mother Dear

I Never Said Goodbye

Unheard – A Sedoka (Sort of)

Twenty-Four Years – A Poem

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Occasional Verse with Paint Chips

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My Mother Dear

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