Ned's mother died in October 2006, my mother died in May 2007. In the summer of 2007, I wrapped this beautiful but dead white pine in memory of my two mothers.
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It takes five years to write a poem.
"you shatter it down until you get to a line - a word" Leonard Cohen
Yes. This is fine, meaning beautiful. But I have to say, on first reading I read it as "sheltering down" and I like that just as well. It's as if the poem is in us, somewhere and we must hold it for a while first. Maybe in our sheltering we are also shattering. A toast to all of our mother's, always with us.
I love the way you mourn, the way you memoralize. I 'spect it takes (at least) 5 years to unlearn all but the most important, all but the necessary words.
This post has touched me today because I do not get along with my mother recently. Relationships between mothers and daughters are not always easy. Your feelings have made me forget my bad feelings.
Beautiful. I think of living a life -- how it takes a lifetime to get to the line, the word. Here's to your mothers. xo
ReplyDeletei have to echo...beautiful is indeed the word.
ReplyDeleteThat was my word too.....Beautiful. Condensation....that is another. Blessings to our Mothers all. ox
ReplyDeleteyes, beautiful...to all of our mothers.
ReplyDeleteYes. This is fine, meaning beautiful. But I have to say, on first reading I read it as "sheltering down" and I like that just as well. It's as if the poem is in us, somewhere and we must hold it for a while first. Maybe in our sheltering we are also shattering.
ReplyDeleteA toast to all of our mother's, always with us.
More memorial than sarcophagus or words carved in stone--this profound monument visited each year.
ReplyDeleteI love the way you mourn, the way you memoralize. I 'spect it takes (at least) 5 years to unlearn all but the most important, all but the necessary words.
ReplyDeletehe might be right
ReplyDeleteoh this is poignant and amazing xxxxx
ReplyDeleteProfound.
ReplyDeleteMy dad passed early summer, I am profoundly moved, opened.
thank you again
namaste Judy... your work goes deep
ReplyDeleteThis post has touched me today because I do not get along with my mother recently. Relationships between mothers and daughters are not always easy.
ReplyDeleteYour feelings have made me forget my bad feelings.
this feels very true.
ReplyDeletelovely memorial...
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