In Loving Memory...

"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," W.B.Yeats

Linda (Sager) Morse

"The Wind Beneath My Wings"

October 31, 1947 – July 14, 2020

"Hero,"

Bette Midler,

Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley,

Songwriters

"A word after a word after a word is power," Margaret Atwood

 

"Spelling"

My daughter plays on the floor

with plastic letters,
red, blue & hard yellow,
learning how to spell,
spelling,
how to make spells.

I wonder how many women
denied themselves daughters,
closed themselves in rooms,
drew the curtains
so they could mainline words.

A child is not a poem,
a poem is not a child.
there is no either/or.
However.

I return to the story
of the woman caught in the war
& in labour, her thighs tied
together by the enemy
so she could not give birth.

Ancestress: the burning witch,
her mouth covered by leather
to strangle words.

A word after a word
after a word is power.

At the point where language falls away
from the hot bones, at the point
where the rock breaks open and darkness
flows out of it like blood, at
the melting point of granite
when the bones know
they are hollow & the word
splits & doubles & speaks
the truth & the body
itself becomes a mouth.

This is a metaphor.

How do you learn to spell?
Blood, sky & the sun,
your own name first,
your first naming, your first name,
your first word.

Margaret Atwood

"If I had a boat,"

Lyle Lovett

"By now it should be clear that the song is about freeing oneself from entangling, binding human relationships of all kinds. And so what started as a simple, fanciful image from childhood has evolved into a reflection of hundreds of years of men's lives and stories, of going out to sea, and riding off into sunsets, and pursuing dangerous work that makes it difficult or impossible or risky to pursue 'normal' familial bliss. And so while this is a simple song that lasts barely more than three minutes, it resonates with whole canons from the likes of Howard Hawks and Raymond Chandler."

"Angel," Sarah McLachlan

On what would have been your 68th birthday...

Not a day goes by that I don't think of you and smile.

Thank you for being my guardian angel

on Earth and in Heaven.

All of my love now and forever, Donna.

"In the arms of an angel,

Fly away from here...

You're in the arms of an angel,

May you find some comfort there,"

Sarah McLachlan

 

Athene

When attempting to 

Slay the Beast, best to remove

Rose-Colored glasses.

"La Vie En Rose,"

Édith Piaf ,

as recorded by

Grace Jones

㊙

Memorial Day 2022

 

"Day is Done,"

Peter Yarrow,

Peter, Paul, and Mary

"And if you take my hand my son,

All will be well when the day is done..."

Dawn

Like a warm bath
Caressing
My soul
Surrendered--
Suspended
With each breath
Silent without
Silence within:
Nirvana

"Sound of Silence,"

Paul Simon

Disturbed

(Cover)

Renaissance

I can never be
the love I lost,
So I remain without
As I've always been-
Half but Whole
"I am enough,"
Not of his reflection
But my own.
The lesson learned
From what now I see
To love myself
As much as
He loved me.

"All The Kings Horses,"

Mighty Rearranger,

Robert Plant 

and the 

Sensational Space Shifters