Iridescently glowing.
She's breathtaking beauty.
A tiny miracle of a baby.
Born a tad late; a blessing!
Enriching in an instant
Lives she touches; a light!
Lovely and special girl in
Every conceivable way!
Note: "Isabelle" is the name of my new baby girl.
Date written: 06/15/2023
Categories:
isabelle, baby, girl, i love
Form: Acrostic
another time, in
another universe
when you were supposed to be born
but then you weren't
when I was overwhelmed you were here
and then you weren't
my words won't breed whispers
your name won't bear notes and
while the medic carried clean machines
my body kept on breathing
a dead tiger
maybe it is not about another time
maybe it is just not meant to be
and past the sound of rain, it sounds
another universe.
Categories:
isabelle, abortion, absence, loss,
Form: Free verse
It’s the anniversary of her death
I am reminded of it every year
Not so much by the calendar
But by my internal clock of pain
You remember the place
You remember the time
Her look of final peace
Our mother
Our monster
We lived our lives in hell
For all of her drunken antics
We were the ones to feel the pain
She drank
…We suffered
As children we never understood her demons
Did she love us?
Why did she hurt us?
What did we do to make her act this way?
We were innocent
Frightened young souls
Doomed to grow up
Broken…
Shattered…
Pieces scattered throughout our lives
Never knowing how to be whole.
You would have been a hundred this year if you had lived
We have grown to forgive you
Finally finding our place in this world
On our own…
We made it to the other side
So
Farewell Isabelle
You did the best you could
Patty LeDuc
February 4, 2019
Scattered Thoughts 2019
(In memory of Isabelle Krumm)
Categories:
isabelle, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Eleven years to this day,
Isabelle Dinoire's face did lay.
Her Labrador ate it;
The surgeons replaced it --
But, she died of rejected display.
Categories:
isabelle, beauty, bereavement, death, health,
Form: Limerick
Clothes
became
yellow-grey-
unchanged many
a
day
until-
battle done
Phillip's siege was
won
Legend that Calico yellow-isabelle was named after Phillip II 's daughter vow that she would
not change her linen until Ostend fell,the siege lasted three years ! (1601-04)
Categories:
isabelle, dedication, people, places
Form: Lanterne
What’s your name Isabelle
with long flowing brown hair
and skin so fair
yellow dress billowing
in the wind
flat-soled Nike
shoes
sitting
reading the news
with a look of
sorrow and despair
the land of the free
has punished your already
tired eyes
and smoking your cigarettes
you punish the skies
in return
the clouds rain disease
and bring an already famine
Earth
closer to it’s knees
in prayer
to a God that never
seems to answer
Categories:
isabelle, confusion, faith, philosophy,
Form: Blank verse