This Poem was Submitted By: Irene E Fraley On Date: 2001-08-11 00:06:26 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Loon Mother

I wandered through the maze of many years  while paddling on that silent, sunrise lake recalling how my mother took my fears and made them tools to sculpt life and not break.   Within my breast the slowly crumbling stone  cracked even wider open as I felt   her loss, the mother of my life had gone  forever, leaving white-hot ice to melt.  "How could you leave?" I asked as tears burned down   my grief carved face, raised to the sky in pain   as if responding then, a loon did sound   her wail as lightly it began to rain.  The mother loon with chicks on back swam past reminding me that nothing mortal lasts.

Copyright © August 2001 Irene E Fraley


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