Showing posts with label Only a Dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Only a Dream. Show all posts

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Love and Poetry

Mother dear, you were a piece of work.
Smart, fun, creative and kind.


 ONLY A DREAM  (for my  children)

I want to sleep in the arms of the crescent moon

Counting the stars in the sky

Watching the ocean's reflecting light

From ships that are passing by


I want to be like a bird so free

Any bird will do

To choose my destination

Yet never leaving  you


Wherever the spirit takes me

There I long to go

Released from this cage, my body,

To the freedom I yearn to know


Now raise your smiling face

And carry through

Rejoice with me, your mother,

Forever loving you.

           from the book, Daydreams  Alice Franzen Clemons Burt

Today, May 9th, 7 years ago, we held hands and you died.
Your cat Sunny was with you too.
On, today, Mother's Day, I remember you with great admiration and love xoxo
Parkinsons never knew what hit it, when it hit you!!!



Saturday, May 10, 2014

Going out in style....

Week Thursday...here is Mom on the way home from lunch bunch with her doggie bag..Having a great time...enjoying her life.

She goes out in style all right.  It is just unbelievable...but then..she was ready for almost anything...

ONLY A DREAM
(For my children)
I want to sleep in the arms of the crescent moon
Counting the stars in the sky
Watching the ocean's reflecting light
From ships that are passing by

I want to be like a bird so free
Any bird will do
To choose my destination
Yet never leaving you

Wherever the spirit takes m
There I long to go
Released from this cage, my body,
to the freedom I y earn to know

Now raise your smiling face
And carry through
Rejoice with me, your mother,
Forever loving you.

Mom included this poem in her first book, published in 2006.  So I know that she was ready to take life's next adventure for quite awhile.  Parkinson's disease is no picnic.  But her mind, sharp till her fall, kept her able to to still live a wonderful caring life.

I am so grateful