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Poem Details
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| Title: | Elegy: “Dear Mother” |
| Author: | Ngoc Nguyen |
| Date Submitted: | 7/4/2018 |
| Email: | ngoc.m.nguyen@cox.net |
| Poem: |
Dear Mother — I longed for your love: so when you passed away I wept; as your spirit rose up above my stinging tears, which were inept, flowed as we began to remove your cold, silent corpse as it slept—. Days passed — they gathered for your wake, a soothing time that was not sad or grave as they tried for my sake to pay their respects and act glad: as you laid there (to never take a breath again), I could’ve gone mad. The hour arrived—the funeral took place on a cold, wintry morn as if dream-like, strange and surreal. Distraught, I felt bereaved and torn as the last rites and burial made me numb and deathly forlorn!... |