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<td>FW: FW: poem for Critique Gr.2, 11-29-18</td>
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<td>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:08:05 -0600</td>
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<td>Valerie Moreno <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:spiritwind@pmpmail.com"><spiritwind@pmpmail.com></a></td>
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poem for Critique Gr.2, 11-29-18<br>
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Place your mind in the softness of life's eternal flow...<br>
-Saint Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253<br>
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Original Message: From: Valerie Moreno
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To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:spiritwind@pmpmail.com">spiritwind@pmpmail.com</a><br>
Subject: poem for Critique Gr.2, 11-29-18<br>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:56:23 -0600<br>
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Stages<br>
<br>
Child,<br>
growing, yet knowing<br>
she is the reason parents fight--<br>
her eyes don't work like theirs.<br>
She feels guilty.<br>
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Teen<br>
doesn't fit the unspoken rules...<br>
silently, she takes in the<br>
mockery and being left out...<br>
nothing new, just an extention of<br>
home.<br>
<br>
Married,<br>
she tends house, cherishes husband,<br>
baby girl is a miracle--<br>
a sparkling light full of<br>
laughter, goodness and questions.<br>
A beautiful darling who tugs at her soul,<br>
soul aching when she's hurt or unhappy.<br>
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Mom,<br>
suddenly, child grows distant,<br>
pulling away and confronting--<br>
battling for independence from mom,<br>
who cries while doing laundry;<br>
dish water hides the hurt and termoil<br>
that flows down sink hole with agony.<br>
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Widow--<br>
Who am I now that two becomes one<br>
with"our" and "we" vanish in to<br>
"I" and "me"<br>
jagged loss turns loneliness<br>
brilliant and flaming,<br>
heart is engulfed, shattered to ashes.<br>
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Later,<br>
grief there on slow burn, life pieces<br>
spread and looked at carefully.<br>
The Child accepted her difference.<br>
Teen now knows difference is a gift.<br>
Wife and mom watch her baby grow up,<br>
leave home,<br>
become a woman.<br>
Husband, beloved, lives in her deepest heart.<br>
<br>
She writes,<br>
has insatiable love for<br>
books, music, cats, dolls,<br>
dreams.<br>
<br>
Stages<br>
weave a life tapestry<br>
bright, dark, always changing<br>
as time, tears and prayers<br>
become her coloring.<br>
<br>
Valerie Moreno<br>
11-16-18<br>
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Place your mind in the softness of life's eternal flow...<br>
-Saint Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253<br>
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