Loved One's Point of View

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shivanayak/

for shivanayak's image

Seeing how our loved ones see us
the love in the images the husband
or wife artist creates-

We find
that we can glow even more
in the beauty they unravel
in the threads
that tie us to them .

Memory and image
they form a woven
basket
provide the tar that
makes them float out among the reeds -

Makes memory safe
noble
gives to it some justice
and a promise to
empower.

(Words gumbootspearlz)

Dad & the Cicadas

Dad & the Cicadas 2004
Originally uploaded by Mr. TRONA.

Image Mr Trona, Poem Gumbootspearlz


Cicada hands

For Mr Trona and family

Father has changed now
But always I shall see his
Cicada hands
The gentle bend of their fingers
As beseeching time beckons.

His memory is not the sum of him
Nor is his skin
Not even the words that gurgle out of the
Brook of his mouth.

Father is here now as he was
Back then time beckoned him
To where he is now.

Outside of time is mother’s love
A Wife’s love,
My love, his love
Nestled in cicada hands.