Mom Thread
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Tank, I'm sorry for your loss. That photo of your mom is beautiful; obviously she was a strong person with a beautiful spirit - it shines through.
My mom died 15 years ago (it still kinda stuns me that its been so long) and I miss her every day. I feel so lucky though to have had her in my life; she taught me so much about life and creativity - and strength.
Since this is a sharing thread...I haven't shared this with many but at my mom's funeral we were all standing around the coffin and these monarch butterflies starting swirling around...hundreds of butterflies swirling around all of us. It meant something to me because my mom had painted two beautiful paintings of these butterflies and I loved those paintings (she was also a musician). After the funeral I wrote this poem.
A Thousand Butterflies
A voice
sonorous and blue
echoes a song
through waves
of my subsistenceMolten, mahogany eyes
greet me,
widen the edges
of my callow vision...
no more.Now there are
a thousand butterflies
cast in colors
of your creation,Chariots ablaze,
sweeping you
over tear-stained earth
into frescos of
honeysuckle and light.