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Sunshine
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0 posted 2010-06-26 10:15 AM



Mother of Memory – Mnemosyne

Alzheimers, your antithesis, some God should love us.

Even your daughters seemed to have forgotten
that you gave them your gifts, through
Zeus.  Oh, he loved you, night after nine.

Without you, who could have been recalled?
At all?

Without you.  Mother, Memory, Mnemosyne.
Mists love you, recollection is your forte.

Against standard, you stood, Philosophizer,
lover, mother, responsible for dialog.  You,
alone, gave reason to chronology.

Life, Being, Self, Time, Space, Occurrence,
Repetition…

Beliefs.

You manifested yourself into Thought.

Unbeknown, you allowed Thought into Philosophy
and did not stop there.

Mother of Memory, you allowed
Spiritualism.

Possibly even the “can do” canto.

Your daughters are proud, and wear
your veils well.  
Without you
no man could have been born
to spout
Intelligence.

© Karilea Rilling Jungel
January 3, 2007
Reposted for a very good friend...and her mother.

© Copyright 2010 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
Kethry D
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1 posted 2010-06-26 09:36 PM


I particularly like the last part. Without you no man can be born to spout intelligence. Lovely!

A poet must leave traces of his passing not proof.

Rene Char

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2 posted 2010-06-27 05:29 PM


enjoyed
Martie
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3 posted 2010-06-27 06:45 PM


Sissie...you give much meaning to mothers, and mothers of mothers and all the children of the world that they bore.  Lovely!
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4 posted 2010-06-27 07:22 PM


Your daughters are proud, and wear
your veils well.


~love that~


          

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5 posted 2010-06-28 08:09 AM


very nicely done ma'am....

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