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a mother’s pride

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non-reality, courage MaryJane Nordgren non-reality, courage MaryJane Nordgren

weep in anticipation

anticipate a non-reality

hope for this or that to happen

fear the other because things never

seem to turn out well

it is all imaginings

cowering before the blow is struck

when you might wait for the pain

before crying

                                   

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author, courage MaryJane Nordgren author, courage MaryJane Nordgren

gracious response

 

a brilliant thought of an author

who has captured and wide, loving

audience for her work

 and then the gathered courage

to reach out to Jane Kirkpatrick

with her own loving story

of mother’s courage growing up

amid annihilating weariness,

ill-treatment and poverty

 the response, far more gracious

than our Susan could have imagined

  ah, the difference between big and small

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Poems, courage MaryJane Nordgren Poems, courage MaryJane Nordgren

emerge

An original poem by MaryJane Nordgren

(a pantoum)

 

emerge

a pantoum

 

emerge

darkness to light

out of shadow

fight for existence

 

darkness to light

will to live

fight for existence

harbinger of hope

 

fight for existence

out of the shadow

harbinger of hope

emerge

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