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Subject: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)

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tcn

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Date Posted: 03:25:43 01/23/08 Wed

New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)

I dreamt today about Aunty Maria,
she was floating ridgid as driftwood
down the Icacos river dam, floating
into those soft evenings of half
darkness where light gathers on the
rim of things as shadows cut shapes
into the blue sky.

I've had this dream before. Once, I
called out to her through the
charming two-tone whistle of the
coqui frog, where the harmonics
connected our voices with an invisible
wire that encompassed the wailing
creatures of the night.

Sometimes I am certain she is happy,
joined in the rhytmn of the rain that drips
inconsistently under the white spill of the
moonlight, beneath the giant ferns,
mountain palms and orchids. And oh the
muddy smell of orchids, life vibrating,
pushing its way out of the damp ground.

Her body has a memory, locked into a daze
of images where starlights penetrate the
clear threads of our conversations as the
heaviness of our words edge into the wilderness.
Their flight a certainty, a prolonged reflex of our
last goodbye. Everything liquid begins to swirl
like deep water, into sleep.

When silence prevails, I taste Plantain, bitter,
unripe, mashed and fried with garlic.There's a
sweet, creamy and zesty undercurrent of rum
in my mouth. Aunty Maria is still with me in that
warm angle of light that holds the anola tree lizard
where the unnamed remains of what it is to love,
dwell.

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[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Darkerside of light [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 04:13:05 01/23/08 Wed Superb pen DSL [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Arunansu [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 06:42:15 01/23/08 Wed Serene. Its amazing how you put your thoughts on the paper. Every image is vivid to the last detail. I can see your Aunt too. "Their flight a certainty, a prolonged reflex of our last goodbye. Everything liquid begins to swirl like deep water, into sleep." - A wonder. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Jessica [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 11:18:56 01/23/08 Wed I can't pick a favourite part of this poem. I truly love it. Jess [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Sasha [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:29:29 01/23/08 Wed ~ sounds like a beautifully visual dream and one you will remember for a long time to come thank you for sharing it here, dear one hugs Sash xx . [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Janel [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:21:49 01/23/08 Wed jus lovely Theresa, jus lovely. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Paul [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 03:32:46 01/24/08 Thu Theresa, Today I am stunned into silence by every read in the Motel so far,then I get to you and I feel numb with awe. Whatever you are all getting I want some!! This is so vivid it leaves an image on my soul! You, as dear Sasha might say, 'So Rock!' Peace and tranquility, Paul [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Sasha [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:37:31 01/25/08 Fri CONGRATULATIONS on this most deserved award, Theresa... this poem called me back! you have such a gift, my friend... I'm hanging this one in the Muse Mongers Awards Hall hugs Sash xx . [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: tcn [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:02:27 01/25/08 Fri Thanks so much for the reads and reviews and for the beautiful award. Much appreciated.:) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: AnneMarie [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 07:33:58 01/26/08 Sat Huge Congrats on the award! Most deserved dear~This is brilliant without a doubt! Very touching~ Hugs, AnneMarie [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: New Light (Aunty Maria's Ashes)
Author: Bobby [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:20:02 01/26/08 Sat Lovely and powerful writing. Congrats on the award!!! Smiles! Bobby [ Post a Reply to This Message ]