"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).
I am never without it."
E. E. Cummings
Grandma was my hero in childhood days
comforting me with hugs, kisses and praise
I loved her house because it was so old
Sweet peas in her garden, purple and gold
She'd brush my hair when it was in tangles
let me wear her gems, earrings and bangles
And then I mothered her as time unfurled
Brushing her long white hair in waves that curled
Her tender smile soothed my heartaches and tears
Held me in loving arms to stop my fears
I will never forget her gentle touch
Dear Grandma, I miss you so very much
I wept like a child on interment day
Wished she was there to wipe my tears away
September 16, 2022
Writing Challenge-In My Heart S Forms Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
Lost to Heaven - Grandmother Marceline
checked with howmanysyllables
Categories:
marceline, grandmother, love,
Form: Sonnet
Women in my family
were immigrants, as history records.
Grandmother Rosamond was born in Italy.
Marceline was French and traveled from Lourdes.
My mother, Jaqueline, was wed at seventeen.
A city girl who became a young farmer's wife.
Many valuable traits from her, I did glean
as she taught me how to be prepared for life.
I would be terribly remiss if I forget to rave
about one more very important family female,
my sister, Claudette, who taught me to be brave.
She said, "Get up and try again each time you fail."
June 16, 2022
Women in my family poetry contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet
Categories:
marceline, family, women,
Form: Rhyme
Parasites are they
Alive only by the skin of someone's magic
A weird trick that keeps their memories
Solidly out of comfortable reach
Forcing them to keep their counsel
As one when we they listen to each other
Which is not often
Ice King and Marceline
Barely hanging on, surviving only because
Of their determination to feel themselves again.
United in their despondency
Losing themselves
Through their unique symbiotic relationship
Fighting through the wreckage of a world
Riding the crown of their own truths
Neither of them truly
royalty
Parasites actually
Categories:
marceline, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse