Stephen, maybe I'm an old softy but yr Mom's poems always get me in the
emotional basket, wherever organically that is. Thank you for doing the
transcrptions.
Andrew
On 22 August 2012 08:22, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> For those who remember - and for those who do not - the poems dictated to
> me by mom (Barbara Moore Vincent) while in her early nineties a few years
> back, seven of them appear in the new, all together rather astonishing
> issue of Eoagh:
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> “If I didn’t write it down, it’s shhhhh”: On Writing
> Dementia. Edited by Susan M. Schultz. Who deserves a big congrats for
> shepherding for what many is a phobic & difficult subject (getting old,
> ignored and a nuisance) into forms of instruction and 'literary delight'.
> And thanks to Tim Trace Peterson for making Eoagh a home for such a quest.
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> http://eoagh.com/?p=1371
> As to new poems, my mom is 96 and the voice has gone mostly inarticulate
> and mute these last couple of years. A kind of quiet, strange serenity
> prevails. Ah, the poem of hers you might remember, certainly took my
> breath, etc. away:
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> The Months
> January will open the horrible threat.
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> February will break off a few of the wicked.
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> March the winds will blow and frighten everybody.
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> April will break my heart.
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> May will come whisking through.
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> June is hard to decipher.
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> July will never stop to say hello.
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> August is jolly and happy for people like me.
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> September is hard to take.
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> October is full of joy for very few.
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> November marks the worst that could ever come.
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> December for many it’s love and joy
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> But not for me.
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
