jamie dedes – Beguine Again

Feb62019 by Jamie DedesNo Comments

JOY . . . I am beautiful now

I have been searching Old Woman and I find her in mySelf Daughters of Copper Woman, Ann Cameron In case you haven’t noticed, I’m beautiful now, beautiful in ways I never was in callow youth ... On fire now with the violet fire of soul speak, treading a lighter path with a brighter spirit. · Sparking pink tourmaline, green jade, amethyst. Blue sapphire flashing through the cloud of my being, shooting stars in a cobalt sky of my heart. I shed the pyrite, lead, hematite, the heavy, the dross. Lost in a whisper of indigo dreams ... like a gray sparrow feather I float through Eternity, a fragile-strong willow-wisp of joy. · In case you haven’t noticed, I am beautiful now, beautiful in the way of all young women in that once-upon-a-time when they were old.

JOY … in our ability to reach out and love

Joy, poem, Poetry

I think human beings are remarkable for their ability to reach out and love even though they know it’s all going end. the wheat has ripened, the lavender is fading white jasmine breaths into gray signs of rain in your lively days, you were light and laughter now i know you as a shadow across the face of the moon, an empty house in my heartland © 2015, poem and illustration, Jamie Dedes (The Poet by Day and The BeZine), All rights reserved

Joy . . . in our children

Joy

At Montauk Point, Long Island, NY - circa 1972. This is why you were born: to silence me. Cells of my mother and father, it is your turn to be pivotal, to be the masterpiece. I improvised; I never remembered. Now it's your turn to be driven; you're the one who demands to know . . . Mother and Child, Louise Glück in The Seven Ages [recommended] And he ... He was a old soul with new story, zero at bone and marrow adhering to Conrad's dictum with little shocks and surprises in every sentence of his book wearing Truth as his dermis seeking tears, not blood And he, like all good art, marked me for the better. © 2018 photo and poem, Jamie Dedes (The Poet by Day and The BeZine)