Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, daughter, legacy, mother, mother's day, poem, poetry on May 8, 2016| 1 Comment »
Every morning when I was a girl
my mother would wake me
with song, the same lilting lyric
every dawn,
It’s going to be such a lovely day,
good morning, good morning I say.
It sounds too grand
to call it ceremony,
and she would have appeared
an unlikely celebrant
in her bathrobe and slippers,
but she infused
this daily ritual with prayer
and to this day I wake
certain that the world
will have beauty in it
and certain that I will find it—
this the most beautiful gift
any mother could give.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged daughter, mother, mother's day, poem, poetry, son on May 4, 2016| 2 Comments »
This year for Mother’s Day, an offering of four poems published in Telluride Inside and Out–one for my mother, one for my son, one for my daughter (that invokes Mother Mary, too), and one about the day I quit motherhood.
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers–especially my own. I love you, mom!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged daughter, mother's day, mothering, poem, poetry, Telluride Inside and Out on May 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
For all the mothers–two poems about mothering. One for my mother in specific, the other for all of us. Happy Mother’s Day, and I say that knowing that it is not always happy. Still, there are so many blessings on this path of being both daughter and mother.