Tag Archives: May Sarton

A May Sarton Poem for Mother’s Day

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2024

A poetic reminder, by May Sarton, to remember the good times we spent with our mothers

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Happiness Is Living in Inwardness

By Robin Bates | Published: July 11, 2023

May Sarton probes the nature of happiness in this peaceful poem.

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Lost Human Voices Speak through Us

By Robin Bates | Published: October 31, 2020

May Sarton’s “All Souls” finds that a new richness comes with mourning. We acknowledge how entwined we were with those who have passed on.

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Love Was with Me in the Night

By Robin Bates | Published: December 25, 2017

May Sarton’s imagines love without weight in her poem “Christmas Light.”

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Our Indispensable Matriarchs

By Robin Bates | Published: September 10, 2015

May Sarton celebrates elderly matriarchs in her novel “Kinds of Love.” As I spend my sabbatical in my childhood home, I wonder whether we are seeing the last of such women.

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Our Strands Grow Richer With Each Loss

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2013

May Sarton’s beautiful poem “All Souls” reminds us that our dead continue to move through us.

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