Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Writing in Faith: Memorial Day: It's all Small-town

Writing in Faith: Memorial Day: It's all Small-town: I hope you will watch this humble little video of the Memorial Day parades in Woodbury and Bethlehem, Connecticut, over this past weekend....

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

salamander yellow pad: dead can dance yoga

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

On My Mother's Side













On My Mother's Side


My
mother never told me
The
one thing I'd 'a listened to most.
Diagnosed
with cancer (7 years before it killed her.)
Deciding
to keep it to herself,
She
did exactly what it wanted -
Believing
it was for her children's benefit, how would she refuse?


Besides
my mother came from a family of secrets
Dark
Sicilian secrets emanated from
Every
Sunday dinner table that ever was
Ebb
Flow Echo Repeat
Dance
through generations none of us immune


free
from all the ancient stories
could
have held the woman who gave me birth
cried
any tears together
faced
fear until it became compassion
looked
into her eyes knowing it was goodbye
and
that there would never be another word between us






from; The Women Retrospective, by pdlyonspoet@yahoo.co.uk