Sad but ending on a positive note. little snap shots, pictures of life do
seem to shuffle dreamlike when asllep and awake when day dreaming. Very
interesting poem. Bw Sally J

>From: Ryfkah * <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New: Halftone Nostalgia
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:47:03 EST
>
>Halftone Nostalgia
>
>Picture postcards shuffle within dream
>
>A woman glimpses herself as a teen kissing an early love
>Like G-d who watches creation exhale in perfection
>a first child at birth looks at this mother with flawless affinity
>Another portrait depicts a forty year old's passion smattered
>
>Leaving home her youngest son packs his room
>the space vacuous except for those things remembered
>She spots the elephant ride at the zoo with all three children
>the bright sun warming her sleep in night's dead darkness
>
>Her octogenarian mother in tenuous health folds
>hands as if in worship   Recollection scattered
>a parent's life resonates devoted servitude
>but Mom never voiced  I love you
>
>Her father sniffs hot chocolate   Marshmallows dissolve
>He steers their sled   Trees part like the Reed Sea
>Double shifts and dinners kept oven warm
>cycle through mind pictures like fast moving clouds
>
>Birdsong whistles between sleep and sun
>Postcards lapse in disarray   Dream wakens to daybreak
>
>cherry blossoms in spring and dawning love
>
>Ryfkah 3/29/04

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