Four poems for Mother’s Day.
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She My Lodestar While I Go and Come
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged “Ave Maria", “Rock Me to Sleep", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Carl Sandburg, Christine Rossetti, Eavan Boland, Elizavbeth Akers Allen, In Memoriam Comments closed
Returning to the Misty Past
John Gatta’s “Spirits of Place” is helping me understand why I have chosen to retire in my home town. Wordsworth, Stowe, Homer, and Frost help out as well.
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Christmas During Life’s Storms
In “Christmas at Sea,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s speaker is both buoyed up and saddened by childhood Christmas memories.
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My Father’s House, Le Château Ivre
My father’s house, not Rimbaud’s drunken boat, seems to launch itself into realms of the imagination.d