Keepsake

KEEPSAKE My Mom Norma, who raised, nurtured and showered me with endearing love, loved diamonds and why not? She was an April baby and diamond is the birthstone. She gave me a diamond ring before she passed away. My eulogy was composed of poem, short story and very short song “Norma in the Sky with Diamonds”. She had also given me several jewelries through the years when she was younger, stronger and full of life. I treasure all the jewelries she gave me, as keepsakes. There is one so special to me, a very special keepsake. It is a very unusual pendant for I have never seen any other pendant like it and I always get the same comment, every time I wear it and also “what a beautiful necklace”. This very special keepsake I call time glass gold dust. It is a one inch pendant made of fourteen karat gold, glass and gold dust or gold powder in the glass shaped as an hourglass with upper bulb and lower bulb with the gold dust staying in the bottom bulb when you wear it. Instead of calling it time glass sand or hourglass or sandglass, I call it time glass gold dust or secondglass for when I turn it over, the gold dust goes to the bottom bulb in a second, as I can only count one, nothing more. Every time I wear this valuable, special keepsake, I get compliments and I imagine her happy face, smiling at me with eyes like diamonds shining so bright and I hum Norma in the Sky with Diamonds. 9/13/21 "K" Contest, New or Old Poetry Constance La France