Deanne: 2 Years Old
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October 2012: Deanne Returns to her Family Roots in the Village of
Victoria Harbour on Georgian Bay, Ontario,
After 43 years in B.C.
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When Autumn Leaves Start to Fall
Coming Home?
(Study #1)
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The smiles
I show
Are simply
Confirmation
That the life I led
Resists the erosion of time.
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In the
Midst of flux
I observe only decorous lace
Around the edges of my narrative.
The environs of my childhood
Remain intact.
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(Study #2)
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I live
Simultaneous
With my memories.
A fusion of then and now.
I reconcile the past and the present.
This is my power
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Remembering
(Study #3)
My genome
Mapped on a village grid,
The paths I walked meander through my mind.
On unsure legs I trip
Over little tufts of
Unextinguished
Memories.
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Robins Point, Georgian Bay: October Winds
(Study #4)
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It is
Lonely
Here in autumn.
The restless geese speak of departing.
My pale green heart bleats out a muffled cry
And only solitary distant loons
Reply
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Highway 400, North to Georgian Bay
Hwy. 400, October 2012
(Study #5)
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My paint brush soul,
Dipped in October’s many hues
Depicts aqueous patches
Deposited on hillsides.
I roll down autumn roads
Towards a destination.
Who knows where?
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Highways North
(Study #6)
Deciduous mosaics
Punctuated by
Resolute, straight backed evergreens
Roll out a canvas.
Scruffy rufous sumac,
Foliage burnished golden
In autumn’s glow,
Simmering incendiary arboreal towers
Spawn pyroclastic billows of embers
Against a chill grey sky. ..
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Highways North
Hwy. 400, October 2012
(Study #7)
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Autumn yearnings, a final flowering,
Concert of foliage in the breeze,
Served with generous
Drippings of
Nostalgia.
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Retro-perspective:
Going home
(Study #8)
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...no regrets
But nonetheless
I dreamed a dream
Of sights unseen, lives unlived
And many roads
Untaken
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Hwy. 400, North of Toronto, October 2012
What a cute Mommy I have (both then and now!) Dooky’s eyes as a child really looked like mom’s as a child.
Lovely poems Dad. I love the multi-sensorial dimensions.