
At this moment in time, which of your own poems is your personal favorite, and why?
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And There Is Eternity
And today she promises
she will go there
and buy the house back—
the one I sold when she was small—
and live in it forever because
the bloom of light from the street lamp
outside the bedroom window
spun the curtains into gold
and in the deepest hour
the trains rumbled past
making the windows
sing a little tune
and the floorboards hummed
as if dreams
tunneled under
and we were safe there together
she in her little bed beside my big one
where we reached our hands out
and held on tight
until morning
painted the walls
so delicious a yellow
you wanted to lick them
and she swears she loved
the smell of moss
that made a tiny carpet
just outside the back door
(though I don’t remember this)
where the wind chimes
argued day and night
and the spruce trees
whispered the kind of secrets
that made a little river
inside her heart—
the same river
I kissed a boy in
when I was her age
and let him kiss me back.
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There are some poems that just leap out of your heart and your pen and even make you cry as you write them. This is my favorite poem because it captures all the emotions of having to leave a childhood home to which one can return only in one’s heart in a sort of grief process that can last for years. In my own life that was sad enough. But when my granddaughter begged me not to sell the home I lived in when she was small and spent every weekend with me, there, I”d had no idea she had felt the same depth of loss that I had. Such a poignant time, childhood!
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Bio:
Alinda Wasner, The Starving Poet
Listed in Poets and Writers, Alinda Wasner’s work has appeared in Fresh Water: Women Writing About the Great Lakes, (a Michigan Best Book) Avatar Review, New Millennium Poets, Passages North, Wayne Review, Wittenberg Review, Blue Lake Review, Corridors, Comstock Review, UpStreet, Paint Creek Press, Outsider Writers, Corridors, Inkwell, InSpirit, The MacGuffin, Up the Staircase, Moving Out, The Detroit Free Press, Detroit Metro Times and Michigan Natural Resources, among others. Her chapbooks include Departures/Arrivals was published by ML Liebler’s Ridgeway Press, and her latest, Kissing The Ikons, which is available for sale on Amazon.com. https://thestarvingpoet.com
This is also one of my alinda wasner favorites–so poignant and rich in imagery.
So beautiful and moving. Thank you for sharing.