Family fades across distance/time stretches thin/our bonds/we row fiercely/against forgetful waves/the values of love/that gave restored hope/unity across the miles/faith and forgiveness endure/we plant seeds/break bread/remember who we are
Author: revrosee
writer of poetry, and prose; spiritual midwife and traveler
moving between
landscapes
of pain
joy
death
resurrection
witnessing to
faith
as I limp
or skip on by
praying for you
beautifully broken
as we
all are
choosing love
choosing welcome
choosing ease
Clear to see love and care/transmitted/beyond place/continents/generations/spiritual existence/plainly/the arms that held us/wait to enfold us/still
Your beauty/love and strength/have blessed our generations/Sister/we cry/peace and joy on your journey/we pray/comfort for the comfortless/to have your enduring gift/ of presence/replete with love/we ask
The harbor/from which our journeys began/an expanding place/in memory so large/after all the roundabouts and perambulations/turns out to be a small place/with cosmic resounding walls
To my joy
there appeared
Sonny the canary
After Sonny Bono
Because I dreamed Sonny and Cher
were my secret parents
and they would rescue me someday
George the tiny turtle
the first official funeral I attended
Goldie the neighbor’s cat
they rang the doorbell late at night
because mother who’d lived a farm life
on another continent might midwife her kittens into
the world
i remember the visceral fear
and the glow of triumph as they wiggled to life
Rover the working dog from Australia
who never obeyed anyone
but his master
who abandoned us all
or so we felt
at sea
wrecked havoc on us all
Lassie who was a strange mix
but pure love
Cindy the kitten
that appeared when we were almost homeless
and afraid
who would purr and knead
she may have left her
mother too soon
I was told
school vacations when we hosted
the unnamed gerbil mother
traumatized by fire in the
public school where she lived
who repeatedly
ate her babies
and though I wept and clung and asked
never received a satisfactory answer
only a mother who seemed to know
i was a child who needed to love
and kept bringing
wounded glorious
creatures
home
Two become one/a dream/we play/until we find holding love/in struggle/in the journey/two who are one/connect and collect/possibilities
Sun time lags behind atomic time/subject to earthshaking eruption/as best we know/decide/amend/attach a leap second/to even out time/but know this: the tragedy of chronos/needs to equal kairos/leaping seconds/matter far less/ in manufacturing this time/attend to what is sacred/make that Holy leap of prophetic faith
Tree trunk gnarled and burled/might swing up like the elephant trunk/our kinship of all that lives/always sings below our surface
Words of love embroider well/don’t need saying/live on in the free gift/its best to find the beauty useful/wrapped around/the words to be discovered/like a happy surprise
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