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by HLemma
Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:19 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 16 haiku
Replies: 2
Views: 3026

Day 16 haiku

tulips..
the first ones
since my mother's passing
by HLemma
Sun Apr 14, 2019 8:18 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: This Is Not An Elegy - Day 13
Replies: 7
Views: 19246

Re: This Is Not An Elegy - Day 13

Wow. This is courageous writing. Thank you.
by HLemma
Sun Apr 14, 2019 8:16 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 14
Replies: 4
Views: 15593

Day 14

mourning my mother
I step on every crack
in the sidewalk
by HLemma
Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:42 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 10: On A Sunday At St. Mary's
Replies: 7
Views: 6076

Re: Day 10: On A Sunday At St. Mary's

Thanks for the good reviews and kind words.
by HLemma
Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:39 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 10: On A Sunday At St. Mary's
Replies: 7
Views: 6076

Re: Day 10: On A Sunday At St. Mary's

Thanks Gyppo, Tracy, and DocCon for your replies. I'm so glad you liked this one. I have dealt with death and fear this year, and now that spring has arrived I'm hoping for better things.
by HLemma
Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:13 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 10: On A Sunday At St. Mary's
Replies: 7
Views: 6076

Day 10: On A Sunday At St. Mary's

Empty, today of all days when it is convenient to remember.   Letters eroded, discolored, evidence of everyone, of no one,   stories unlike those at hospitals and airports, where departures are balanced with arrivals.   Here, there is only loss.   We sleuth around markers in search of a familiar na...
by HLemma
Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:09 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 4: Tokens
Replies: 7
Views: 6252

Re: Day 4: Tokens

Tracy and Gyppo, thanks for your responses.

I lost my mother on January 3. This was written for her birthday.
by HLemma
Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:07 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 4: Tokens
Replies: 7
Views: 6252

Re: Day 4: Tokens

Janet_R wrote:
Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:07 pm
This is heartbreakingly beautiful. You've used so few words to say so much.

Thanks Janet.
by HLemma
Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:00 am
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 4: Tokens
Replies: 7
Views: 6252

Day 4: Tokens

Everywhere. Paint by number cats and unnamed hamlets. A Christie thriller halved with recipes. The tv room without her soaps, the kitchen where she doesn’t sing. Empty beds where marigolds had grown, goldenrod that flares up anyway. The family that makes an effort now. A vessel for her ruins - saliv...
by HLemma
Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:26 pm
Forum: Archive - National Poetry Month Celebration 2019
Topic: Day 3: On A Saturday
Replies: 1
Views: 2695

Day 3: On A Saturday

The obvious statements of silence,
a wreath dropping its flowers,
pictures of reasons for movement,
the white sky that changes its shape,
an alternate universe in the brass door handle. 

My reflection staring back